BURIED IN OBSCURITY | M.P. Pellicer

July 31, 1973, was the last time Mary Raskin knew exactly where her son Joseph “Joey” Norman Spears was at.

He was only 17 years old when he escaped from the Harrison County Youth Detention Center in Mississippi. Since then it was as if the earth had swallowed him up, and in a way it had.

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THE TRAGIC TALE OF THE GIRL IN BLUE | M.P. Pellicer

For more than 70 years, a solitary grave under a lonely mulberry tree in Willoughby Cemetery simply read: "Girl in Blue. Killed By Train. December 24, 1933. Unknown, But Not Forgotten." The ground around the grave is littered with dimes and pennies in remembrance of this unknown victim of tragedy.

1933
Christmas was two days away, and a young woman dressed in a navy blue skirt came to the ticket window at a Greyhound bus station, and asked about fare to Erie, Pennsylvania and Elmira, New York. She eventually purchased a ticket to Willoughby, Ohio.

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The Grave of the Viking Warrior Woman | M.P. Pellicer

Already in the early middle ages, there were narratives about fierce female Vikings fighting alongside men. Although, continuously reoccurring in art as well as in poetry, the women warriors have generally been dismissed as mythological phenomena.

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