Welcome to Unobscured, a production of I Heart Radio and Aaron Minky.

Kora sat under a canopy of oak trees.

She held a blank slate in her hand, waiting to be filled as she copied out her lessons.

It was a warm afternoon in the fall of 1851, and even at 11, Kora's curiosity and studiousness

kept her at work while other children played in the trees around her.

People who knew Kora said that she was much like Andrew Jackson Davis, a relatively ordinary

child.

When her family was still in New York, living at Aiden Belou's Utopian Community Hopedale,

Aiden's daughter Abby was Kora's teacher, and her notes from the time give us one small

clue to the future that was coming for Kora.

Abby wrote that the girl was an excellent performer.

She shone in the theatricals they held at the community school.

Even more frequently, friends and relatives remarked that Kora was sensitive.

She was always a well of emotion, apt to burst into tears or laughter at a moment's notice,

an unkind word, a misunderstood expression, or any surprise affected her deeply.

She wasn't particularly precocious for her age.

They said she liked school, but she wasn't over studious, intelligent, but a bit of a

dreamer, they said.

So it was no surprise on that warm Wisconsin afternoon, with the sounds of other children

playing around her, and that she fell asleep.

But in doing so, she also fell into history.

When she woke up, Kora found that her slate was covered in writing, guessing that one of

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