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The Harrow Oak's Hand: Woman Smiles, Bark Hides a Palm
The Harrow Oak's Hand: Woman Smiles, Bark Hides a Palm
A single four-by-six black-and-white photograph from the early 1950s shows a smiling woman holding a baby while, at knee height, a hand presses flat against the oak’s bark-yet no person is visible behind it. Who left that palm against the Harrow Oak, and why did the town erase almost every record of the woman in the picture?
In this episode, we present the archival clues, oral histories, and municipal records Emily Burke uncovered in Fenwick as she traced the photograph, the notebook found beneath the tree’s eastern root, and the sparse…
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