Christy Fawcett hosted our Ramble in Spring Valley Park. This park is the former farm of Poet Lee Anderson, who studied at Yale and painstakingly wrote poems that read like “symphonies”. “He was a much loved and gentle man” and was worried about humankind destroying itself with “the bomb”. One poem, call “Potosi” was named after the small community nearby—fellow Ramblers knew people from there.
This area is also famous for the Hex murder in 1928 where a trio assailed a farmer in Rehmeyers Hollow because they thought he had cast a spell on them since he was a practitioner of white magic. They murdered and set his body on fire, were sent to jail for their crimes but not for long! Ana Ortman knows where the Hollow is located so get her to take you there, if you dare!
Carol Stowell
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