What happens when anger becomes more powerful than evidence? What happens when a community becomes so certain that someone—or something—must be punished that there is no longer room for questions, competing explanations or a different conclusion? In September 1916, an elephant named Mary became the focus of that kind of collective anger in East Tennessee. …
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