A Chair Sits Upright in the Lake: The Gardner Property Mystery
A Chair Sits Upright in the Lake: The Gardner Property Mystery
A wooden kitchen chair sat upright in eight inches of Calloway Lake water with all four legs level in the sand and its rush seat intact - a piece of domestic furniture dated to 1910-1935 found by a county surveyor on May 9, 2011. Why would a nearly century-old chair rest perfectly upright in cold, glacial water without signs of disturbance, and what other odd records tied to the Gardner parcel would surface when someone looked closer?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a routine easement survey to the moment a historian…
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