The Chair Between Fires: Who Moved Linda Reynolds's Seat?
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The Chair Between Fires: Who Moved Linda Reynolds's Seat?
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A solitary ladder-back chair was found perfectly upright in an eighteen-inch gap between a limestone foundation and a juniper hedge on July 9, 1991 - intact, unrotted, and apparently removed before two separate town hall fires decades apart. How did a chair that survived both the 1897 and 1933 Fenwick Township fires end up hidden where no record explains it, and who made sure it was never inside when the buildings burned?
In this episode, we trace the paperwork, photographs, and fire marshal reports that follow one object through forty years of local administration and two unexplained conflagrations. We ask whether the chair’s absence from both burn sites and its repeated presence in township records point to deliberate preservation, accident, or something more deliberate.
Person: Linda Reynolds
Date: July 9, 1991
Location: Fenwick Township clerk's office display / eighteen-inch gap by limestone foundation and juniper hedge
Period: 1882-1922 (Reynolds's tenure as township clerk)
Event: Town hall fires in 1897 and July 6, 1933
- The chair was discovered upright in an eighteen-inch gap between a limestone foundation and a juniper hedge on the morning of July 9, 1991.
- Randy Evans, age forty-one and a county surveyor with sixteen years’ experience, photographed the chair with a disposable camera before touching it.
- Linda Reynolds served as Fenwick Township clerk from 1882 to 1922 and used the ladder-back chair for forty years.
- A 1912 photograph shows the identical ladder-back chair in the town hall meeting room with three narrow rails and one wide slat.
- Fire marshal reports list the first fire on July 14, 1897 as "undetermined, probable lamp or stove" and the second on July 6, 1933 as "electrical fault, origin southwest corner," with both buildings unoccupied at night.
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