The Chair That Wouldn't Burn: Nancy Hoffman's Last Witness
The Chair That Wouldn't Burn: Nancy Hoffman's Last WitnessA dry wooden chair survived four separate township hall fires over eighty-six years, appeared untouched after two floods that moved a tool shed, and bears a brass plate reading "Hoffman, 1871" - so why did it keep turning up miles from where it burned? Who moved it, and what did the pattern of disappearances and returns mean for the family tied to its maker?In this episode, we lay out the documented sequence of events surrounding the Hoffman chair, the cooperage that produced it, the township drainage project that flooded the family's…
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