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She Collected a Toll for a River That Never Needed One
She Collected a Toll for a River That Never Needed One
A rusted brass padlock stapled to fresh packaging on an abandoned toll booth led a birder’s photograph to a researcher who uncovered a paper trail stretching 130 years - and a woman who kept paying a toll every August for 35 consecutive years on a river no engineering plan ever justified. Who kept that ritual alive, and why did county ledgers accept cash for a crossing that officially had no operator?
In this episode, you’ll hear how a single photograph reached folklorist Steven Padgett and set him on a path through burial registers, town…
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