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The Dry Candle on the Capsized Canoe: Where Is Laura Sanders?
The Dry Candle on the Capsized Canoe: Where Is Laura Sanders?
Cold water, a capsized canoe, and a perfectly dry white birthday candle lodged in its geometric center after seventy-two hours in a flooding river - how could that happen, and where is the woman who owned that candle? The Tolliver River was running a foot and a half above normal, and the canoe arrived hull-up against the bank with the candle unsoiled; what explanation could reconcile those facts?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events from Laura Sanders’s solo canoe trip and the discoveries that followed, laying out the…
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