The old farmer called them healing machines. In a clapboard farmhouse without running water 20 miles northeast of North Platte, he spent uncounted hours twisting baling wire, winding copper strands and snipping tin pieces into hundreds of curios that surpass description.
The old farmer never called them art and he never fancied himself an artist, alchemist or healer, but he believed his inventions harnessed a mysterious power.
Another good find courtesy of the Anomalist.
Emery Blagdon's "healing machines" will be part of an exhibit, "Weird Nebraska: Strange Stories and Amazing Facts," that will run for a year at the Museum of Nebraska History in Lincoln. Read about it here.
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