Work Wednesday: Mysteries Abound

It has been a ridiculous few weeks. Busy with all sorts of things, both fun and work related. I’ve been steady in the progress on the final rewrites of Full Sail. With that wrapping up, the Duxbridge Mysteries gets notes and plot scribbles when I need a break.

This fun fact came up in the town I’ve used as my model for Duxbridge:

“A HUMAN SKULL IS UNEARTHED ON EAST GROVE STREET IN 1931

One day in November of 1931, three local men were working, digging a foundation along a site on East Grove Street, when they got the surprise of a lifetime– they unearthed a human skull!

Here is the Gazette account of that startling discovery:

“Mystery surrounds the gruesome finding of a human skull by Calvin R. Hosford, Albert Carr and Fred Blanchard yesterday morning as they were excavating for a small building on the new state highway on East Grove street on Mr. Hosford’s property. As the men were digging towards the wooded section, the skull, which was but a few feet underground came rolling down into the loosened sand. Although the men kept digging there were no human bones found.”

So, don’t be surprised if a hundred year old skull turns up somewhere in the next novel.

Until then…