The Bricked Window: What Grover's Notch Kept Whispering Since 1899

The Bricked Window: What Grover's Notch Kept Whispering Since 1899

A sealed brick hid a composition book that smelled of twelve decades of chalk dust, and inside was a terse entry dated February 11, 1899 - thirty-four words that end a story of absences, a broken window, and two terse marginal notations. Who was E.D., why was “again” jotted in a teacher’s margin, and what had the town tried to hide behind wood and brick?

In this episode, we follow the discovery at an abandoned Grover’s Notch schoolhouse and the pages of Kathleen Price’s composition book to piece together what the records and townspeople left unsaid. The episode covers the discovery on February 11, 2019, the teacher’s meticulous lesson books from 1894-1899, and the unexplained incidents around early February 1899 that culminate in Price’s final entry - what did she mean by “remain here until the matter”?

Person: Kathleen Price Date: February 11, 1899 Location: Grover’s Notch, Teller County, Colorado Case: Broken north window on evening of February 6, 1899 Event: Composition book hidden behind brick, discovered February 11, 2019

- The brick exposed in the north wall was salmon-colored and did not match the wood-frame schoolhouse construction. - Richard Carlson pried the brick out on the morning of February 11, 2019, and found the composition book wrapped in paper. - The composition book contained forty-one pages with small, disciplined handwriting used for lesson plans and ledgers. - A margin note beside a February 7, 1899 arithmetic lesson reads: "E.D. / again." - School board minutes record that on the evening of February 6, 1899 Edward Dill fled the schoolhouse and in his flight broke the north window; Cyrus Mott was the man present.

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