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The Portrait Tree: A Missing Death and the Name Nailed Inside
The Portrait Tree: A Missing Death and the Name Nailed Inside
A sepia portrait was nailed to the bark of a white oak in August 2019 - a glass frame with no rust hiding a name that vanished from every official record for 106 years. Who put April Stewart's photograph on the tree, and why does a century-old letter call it merely "the matter of the Stewart girl"?
In this episode, you will hear how a contractor's routine job led to a Facebook post that reopened a local mystery, the archival work that confirmed the portrait matched a 1912 church directory photo, and the discovery of a 1913…
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