The Sallow Oak Photograph: Who Crouched in the Corner?
The Sallow Oak Photograph: Who Crouched in the Corner?A chill of recognition: a fisherman finds a three-by-five framed photo nailed into the Sallow Oak’s trunk, and in the lower-left corner of that black-and-white image crouches a person in a dark coat - a figure that appears in 37 of 41 archival photos spanning the late 1930s to the early 1960s. Who is the crouching figure, and why does it recur across decades of pictures at the same tree?In this episode, we follow how a local fisherman, the town historian, and a longtime resident connect a single small photograph to a stack of forty-one…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.