Adirondack Life

Forget Them Not

p an overgrown road, through thigh-high grass, a centuries-old burial site nestles in a crescent of thorn bushes on Warren Kries’s property in Keene. Kries, a retired Florida police officer, bought this piece of land in 2005, a couple of years before a neighbor mentioned the grave on it. Kries found the headstone, cleared the vegetation around it and discovered an “E. B.” and “1810” on the granite’s weathered face. Intrigued, he studied his title’s abstract and consulted an

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