The Jar in the Gap: What Calder's Well Tried to Hide
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The Jar in the Gap: What Calder's Well Tried to Hide
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Wet November rain soaked everything on Sutter Lane except the inside of a Mason jar wedged into a two-inch gap that no adult hand could reach-inside: a dried sprig of yarrow and a cabinet card photo dated circa 1910-1920. Who sealed a century-old image and a single plant into a modern jar and left no footprints, and why does the documentary record keep trying to bury what happened at Calder's Well?
In this episode, we follow a folklore researcher, township records, and local memory as they collide around a sealed well and a crossed-out eleven-word sentence in an 1892 ledger, asking whether community silence and repeated official sealing hide a different story about Marcia Harris and Calder's Well.
Person: Marcia Harris
Date: November 3, 1902
Location: Calder's Well, Sutter Lane, Harwick, Varrow County
Researcher: Amanda Brown, Dunmore College folklore archive, age 53 in 2017
Township actions: Well sealed by vote five separate times, most recent concrete cap poured autumn 2016
- The jar was wedged into a two-inch gap between the fence's lowest rail and the ground with no footprints around it.
- The cabinet card photograph inside dated to circa 1910-1920 and showed a smiling girl about eight or nine years old.
- An eleven-word sentence-"and on account of what was done there to Marcia Harris."-was heavily crossed out in an 1892 ledger found in the county clerk's archive.
- Marcia Harris was twenty-four years old in November 1902 and had been living with the Calder family as a domestic worker.
- The hand-dug well is thirty-two feet deep and has been sealed by township vote five times, including a concrete pour in 2016.
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