The Nance ground cost Gerald Foss his peace - he died six days after objecting
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The Nance ground cost Gerald Foss his peace - he died six days after objecting
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The Nance ground cost Gerald Foss his peace - he died six days after objecting
In this episode, we follow the tangled records and local memory around a four-point-two-acre parcel called the Nance ground, a formal handwritten objection, and the timing that links them to a sudden death. What questions about ownership, records, and disappearance keep resurfacing in Harkin Hollow?
Person: Gerald Foss
Date: May 8, 1981
Location: Harkin Hollow, Vermont
Event: handwritten objection to proposed road expansion
Person: Darlene Williams
- A parish volunteer found a two-page, signed letter from Gerald Foss dated May 8, 1981, lodged in a 1981 church bulletin.
- Foss’s objection opposed a road-expansion vote that would have given new access along the boundary of the Nance ground.
- Foss died six days after writing and signing the objection; his death was recorded as cardiac arrest and not reinvestigated.
- The Nance ground is a 4.2-acre parcel listed as present but never cultivated across six agricultural surveys from 1921 onward.
- In late April 1981, waitress Darlene Williams queried the deeds office about who held exemption authority over the Nance ground; she disappeared the next morning.
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