Three Knocks Every February: The Chair Facing the Bricked Window
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Three Knocks Every February: The Chair Facing the Bricked Window
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A frozen child’s wooden school chair sat in the grass outside a funeral home on February 4, 2019, its seat, rungs, and feet mysteriously free of frost while everything around it was white and hard - and the chair faced a window that had been bricked over decades earlier. For fifty-three years a funeral-home log recorded a sound: three knocks, a pause, three knocks, always in February from the northeast corner where that bricked window meets the preparation room wall - why did a chair appear that February and what connects it to the century-old knocks?
In this episode, we follow the day Susan Long photographed the dry chair and the chain of records and objects the funeral-home custodians kept: Harold Weller’s first entry from February 9, 1966, the handed-down log maintained by three caretakers, a mason’s discovery of an oilcloth bundle in the northeast wall, and the measurements suggesting a child’s chair could fit inside the cavity; what does this accumulation of detail suggest about the knocks and the chair?
Person: Susan Long
Location: Harwick, Tennessee
Date: February 4, 2019
Event: Three-beat knocks recorded annually in February since February 9, 1966
Object: Oilcloth bundle removed from northeast wall cavity by mason Bob Tully
- Susan Long was a county surveyor with twenty-two years in Tilden Parish who photographed the chair before touching anything.
- The chair’s seat, rungs, and feet had no frost while surrounding grass and foundation were frozen.
- The Weller family ran 107 Garrison Street as a funeral home from 1912 until Douglas Weller sold it in 2008, a span of ninety-six years.
- The log of three-knock entries began with Harold Weller on February 9, 1966, and continued through Douglas Weller to Beverly Owens for fifty-three years.
- Mason Bob Tully, who repointed the exterior in 2010 and reopened the wall in March 2019, noted the cavity’s width would fit a child’s chair sideways and removed an oilcloth bundle containing two documents.
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