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The Hymn Found in the Hollow: Who Buried Erin Green?
The Hymn Found in the Hollow: Who Buried Erin Green?
A dry sheet of handwritten hymn music was found inside a split tulip poplar on a West Virginia trail - preserved though the tree had been open to the sky - with the name Erin Green penciled at the top. The hymn had been sung at Erin's funeral four days after her sudden death, but who placed that score in the tree and why was the final line rewritten decades earlier to change its meaning from silence to speaking clearly?
In this episode, we follow the documentary thread that ties a local funeral, a private hymn called "Pale and Gentle," and…
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