The Chair That Returned Before the Fire - Fenwick's Silent Witness
The Chair That Returned Before the Fire - Fenwick's Silent WitnessA single white-oak chair, hand-turned and with a rush seat, was found alone in the center of Fenwick Town Hall’s parking lot while the building still burned; it has been present at four separate town-hall fires over 150 years without a single scorch mark. What did generations of a closed coastal town choose to protect with that chair, and why was it always found unburned?In this episode, we follow the timeline of the chair from its commission to the town through archival receipts, inspector reports, and a folklorist’s field…
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