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The Courthouse Portrait No One Will Ever Turn Back Around
The Courthouse Portrait No One Will Ever Turn Back Around
Fear that something ordinary can be quietly made untouchable: a courthouse portrait was turned to the wall at 4:58 a.m. in 1973 and has faced plaster ever since - the brass nameplate still reads Judge Aldous Pell. Why did a unanimous town council vote to reverse the portrait with no explanation, and what does one invoice and a single clipped index card conceal?
In this episode, we follow how a researcher named Sandra Burke untangles decades-old public records and finds a sealed petition, a one-page hearing record, and a transfer log…
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