The Sleeper's Locket: Why Harwick's Four Acres Never Yielded a Plow
The Sleeper's Locket: Why Harwick's Four Acres Never Yielded a PlowA single word-acknowledged-was folded inside a tarnished locket, wired to a nineteenth-century stake and left in May grass in 2019; the locket's engraved date is May 14, 1887, the same day the land's owner died. Who assembled a stake cut before 1970, a locket from 1887, and baling wire made between 1930 and 1955, and why was it placed on those four acres known as the Sleeper?In this episode, we trace the documents and discoveries that surround a four-acre parcel northeast of Aldine Road, the locket found on the Souchet's…
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