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The Bible Under the Farm: A Name Buried for Seventy Years
The Bible Under the Farm: A Name Buried for Seventy Years
Fear that a family secret has been intentionally erased starts the moment a contractor finds a Bible tucked under a farmhouse and discovers a penciled name pressed so hard it cuts the page: "Cecelia, born April 1951, not recorded." Who wrote that name four times in the margins of the Book of Ruth, and why was it left deliberately impermanent-was it a plea, a warning, or a confession?
In this episode, we follow how a found family Bible travels from under a drained farmhouse to a kitchen table and then to an eighty-one-year-old relative…
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