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They Buried a Name: The Photograph Left at Dawn
They Buried a Name: The Photograph Left at Dawn
A spotless framed portrait propped against Sutter's Mill cemetery gate at 5:40 AM on July 14, 2011 carried a modern blue-ink slip reading only "Burke" tucked behind an antique photo-someone had wiped the glass clean and left before dawn. Who chose a cemetery gate as the message board for a name erased from every public record, and why would a living person revive it nearly ninety years later?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events the photograph set in motion and the archival trail county historian Susan Barnes traced back to a…
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