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The Bricked Window: Why Her Father Opposed Burying the Truth
The Bricked Window: Why Her Father Opposed Burying the Truth
Cold, rural isolation and a single carved plea - FORGIVE HER - were found pressed into a child's slate buried forty feet from a schoolhouse foundation, dated February 14, 1899. The community voted to brick the small northeast window over seven days after Amanda Petersen died beneath it; why did her father alone oppose sealing that opening?
In this episode, we lay out the documentary trail: the school plans, death records with conflicting causes, the school board minutes naming George Petersen as the lone dissenting vote, and the…
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