The Chair at Dawn: An Unclaimed Observance on Kessler Ridge
The Chair at Dawn: An Unclaimed Observance on Kessler RidgeA faded child's chair, a corn-husk doll, and a fresh bundle of rye grass left at the Keppler fence line at 6:17 a.m. on May 14, 2011 - captured by a retired postal carrier who had walked that stretch for eleven years. The object matched a pattern stretching back to an 1893 coroner's inquest and thirty-two annual town minutes; who kept this May observance alive, and why did it vanish from the record after 1944?In this episode, we follow the thread from Michael Baker’s photograph through archival inquest testimony, town-meeting entries…
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