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The Boot in the Willow: What Pelham Ford Refused to Plow
The Boot in the Willow: What Pelham Ford Refused to Plow
Something about an upright 19th-century woman's leather boot found in willow roots on the east bank of Sallow Creek feels like a deliberate gesture, not river debris - and eleven acres of the best bottomland in Pelham Ford have gone unplowed for six generations. How are a boot dated 1868-1882, a death recorded as "fever following confinement" in 1873 with no infant record, and a parcel never worked connected to a silence the town kept?
In this episode, we follow the discovery and the town records that cluster around a single field and a…
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