by CRAIG LEMOULT
In the 1800s, a man wearing a head-to-toe leather suit walked a 365-mile circuit between the Connecticut and Hudson rivers, sleeping in cave shelters and completing his journey in precisely 34 days. And he kept it up for years. No one knows who he was or why he did what he did, but the legend of the Old Leatherman still fascinates. This week, archaeologists and historians set out to solve the mystery by exhuming his body. But their efforts have only deepened the mystery...[continued]
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