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The Chair at Weaver Bend: Why Julie Weaver Vanished in 1912
The Chair at Weaver Bend: Why Julie Weaver Vanished in 1912
A barn-red chair, bolted portrait, and a laminated photograph that looks decades newer than the image it preserves-what turned a 1910-1915 portrait into a decades-long river-side shrine? Who was the young woman named in county minutes as absent in June 1912, and why does her name vanish from every local record thereafter?
In this episode, we tell how a Wednesday morning discovery in June 2003 set a retired schoolteacher on a five-year research trail, exposed a puzzling land transaction recorded in 1914, and forced a fresh look at a…
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