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Big but [Not So] Bad-AssUpon entering the guestroom I checked for Ger’s promised info and was pleased to find it in the Inbox. As he’d said, there wasn’t much.
A grainy photograph near rural railroad tracks showed a dozen men with shovels and picks. It had been part of an article on expanding railways, but Ger had provided only the photo that held a couple of unremarkable sentences beneath. One name stood out, though: Fred Maxwell. It was hard to see his face, not only because of the poor quality of the photo, but the shaggy hair and beard. In the “Clinton News” section of a Connecticut paper dated May 1896, a blurb advised that Contractor Marcus F.P. Jerrold of Middleton and his men, Fred Maxwell and Peter Kelsomm, had begun working on a barn for Joseph Crumholz in the rear of his C
