I am looking for the grave of a child. Her name was Mary. I peer deep into the grass, hoping to find anything—a primitive stone memorial, a blade-chipped name—that would indicate the awful thing that happened here. Below the ridge of Bald Eagle Mountain in the distance is the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, where the tragedy happened more than two…
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