Word: fern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MILLERSVILLE! - Fern Gravel -Prairie Press...
...Fern Gravel" was the pen name of a sub-teen authoress whose soul simultaneously exfoliated in and was griped by her Iowa home town, early in the 1900s. Her verses, now brought to light (she had entrusted them to the safekeeping of an adult confidant), are as good examples of dead-pan lyricism as have ever been printed...
...Most of Fern Gravel's eager observation centred on Millersville's inhabitants; and most of these inhabitants she took exactly as they came...
...dead were Eve and Delton Conly. The still-living woman was Fern Thompson. The Wing On's fragmentary log told the rest. After noting that the yacht had run into a "cyclone," the entry dated Nov. 7 read: "Discovered Chet had died. What next? Help us, oh God!" On Nov. 8: "Buried Chester Thompson, 21, at 8:10 a.m.; died starvation ... he was too far gone at any rate to stand any of the remaining can of apricots we had." The last entry, on Nov. 12, was merely: "D. A. Conly, master, yacht Wing...
...Fiji officials, had apparently died soon after he had scrawled his signature. Eve had died just a day or two before the sea washed the Wing On up on Vanua Levu. The rest of the story of the 100-day adventure was locked behind the swollen lips of Fern Thompson, who, in critical condition, was carried delirious to an island hospital...