The Stone That Forced Pelham to Whisper a Name
The Stone That Forced Pelham to Whisper a NameA single granite headstone reading only "FITZGERALD" stood upright in Pelham Reservoir on July 11, 2019, its face freshly scraped and tool marks bright - a name the nearby town of Granger had avoided saying aloud for nearly a century. How did a drowned town, lost to an Army Corps dam in 1961, leave behind a gravesite that everyone claimed no longer existed, and why does that surname still make residents lower their voices?In this episode, we follow the discovery at Pelham Reservoir and the four months of fieldwork by folklorist Paula Zeller that…
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