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The Shoe on the Bolted Well: Why Dunmore Keeps Sealing
The Shoe on the Bolted Well: Why Dunmore Keeps Sealing
A child's white patent-leather shoe, size four, sat perfectly centered on a concrete disc sealed with twelve bolts - no mud on the sole and no prints in the frost beyond the finder’s own. The well at the eastern edge of Teller's Pasture has been sealed by community vote three times, each time adding more bolts; what words were crossed out of the 1902 motion, and why did a single shoe pull at 117 years of silence?
In this episode, we recount the events and records tied to the sealed well in Dunmore Township, from the shoe found on November…
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