The Nail in the Post: A Child's Rhyme That Buried Five Lives
The Nail in the Post: A Child's Rhyme That Buried Five LivesSnowplow operator Carl Meyer found a child’s alphabet-bordered card nailed inside a roadside post on March 9, 2013 - the nail type had not been manufactured since about 1922 and the post was installed in 1994. The card bore six block-capital lines of a rhyme that connected to five deaths in one winter a century earlier; what did a children’s rhyme have to do with those losses?In this episode, we follow how a found card set a retired teacher on a four-year documentary reconstruction of a winter in Aldenvale, revealing transfers of…
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