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The Dry Photograph: Why Alderton Refuses the Name Coleman
The Dry Photograph: Why Alderton Refuses the Name Coleman
A dry, glass-covered school portrait was found propped against a utility pole after a night of heavy rain - not a smudge, not a footprint, just a photo labeled "Coleman" dated in the style of the early 1960s. The town of Alderton has spent decades refusing that one name; why did a community of 300-400 people erase a family that farmed the flats for roughly forty years, and who left a photograph to be found fifty-seven years later?
In this episode, we trace the surviving documentary threads and on-the-ground details that persist in the…
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