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THE KEEPERS' OWN LIST
The surest evidence that these questions are real is that the institutions charged with answering them keep saying so. The archaeologists who went looking for the city's founding forts closed their report by calling their work "an initial effort" and the forts undetermined. The History Center's own blog, telling the story of Richardville's apple tree, ends: "One day reliable evidence may surface." The historian of the first baseball game, having solved it, published the piece he had not solved and put it on his bucket list. The genealogical society maintains a standing project to copy church records before more of them follow Turner Chapel's into the fire column of its own list. This section is therefore not a cabinet of curiosities; it is the index of the work the record itself has left on the table — the forts under the pavement, the contents of a grave on Lawton Place, the face in the burned painting, the tree on Edgewater, the grandstand's side of the river, the first hour of the Aveline fire, the names in Turner Chapel's burned books. Each is stated here exactly as far as the documents go, and no farther. When one of them moves — when a spade, a survey, or a surfaced paper closes a question — the entry will print its solution the way the solved ones above print theirs, because a solved mystery is a complete entry.
Sources:
- The sources of the entries above, each of which states its own open end in its own words.