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The Lullaby That Kept a Boy's Name Alive in Mud
The Lullaby That Kept a Boy's Name Alive in Mud
Cold and persistent: a child's music box, with a taut, unworn spring and a melody every mother in Kellard's Mill could hum, surfaced in raw mud on a county road in March 1991 - yet the boy whose name the lullaby ends with had vanished from public record a century earlier. How did an undeteriorated toy tied to a forgotten name resurface where no footprints were seen, and who kept that name alive?
In this episode, we present the documented history behind the music box, the lullaby, and the child named Amos, following the archival trail, family…
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