The Eight Stanzas Buried by Denise Whitfield - Someone Must Count
The Eight Stanzas Buried by Denise Whitfield - Someone Must CountA century-old slate with eight etched verses surfaced in river mud in 2019, four lines everybody in Cutler's Bend knew and four no one had ever heard. The slab was hand-carved and mineral-weathered in a pattern consistent with long burial-so who carved it and why was their secret kept for decades?In this episode, we follow the discovery of the slate, the local connections to a children's rhyme taught for generations, and the archival and material evidence that ties the stone to a single person-what did Denise Whitfield intend…
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