The Peninsula Python

In November of nineteen hundred and forty-five, a story was published in the Atlantic Monthly about a small town in northeast Ohio. The writer, a man who did feature articles for the magazine, wrote of a train derailment on the village outskirts. The life of the story was remarkable and probably wouldn't have survived in the eras of the internet and fifteen minutes of fame. However, it reappeared in the late summer '46 in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and was told and re-told by residents of...