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The Jar on Frozen Water: A Name That Wouldn't Die
The Jar on Frozen Water: A Name That Wouldn't Die
Cold, isolated, and inexplicably deliberate: a sealed glass jar sits upright in a collar of refrozen water on an Ohio pond at 11°F, containing a folded slip with a woman's name written in the hand of a man who had been dead for sixty-three years-how did that handwriting survive to be found in 2014, and what kept a name alive through decades of silence?
In this episode, we trace the chain of events laid out in the records and journals: a January morning in 2014 when Robert Hall found the jar; a 1922 death reduced to an initial and “exposure” by…
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