Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dirt-floored shack on Half Moon Mountain, in New York's rugged little Ramapos, Gilbert Pitt lived for 81 years. He spent a big chunk of that time warding off social contacts and modern conveniences...
That meant considerable vigilance, for the Ramapos lie a mere 30 miles northwest of Manhattan. On clear days, from the top of neighboring Jackie Jones Mountain, Gil Pitt could see the skyscrapers: Half Moon itself was only 55 minutes from Broadway...
...other mountain men drifted down into the valleys, the hamlets and small towns. Some of them even went to work on eight-hour-a-day jobs. But not Gil Pitt. He just moved higher up on Half Moon Mountain, four miles from the nearest town, two miles from the nearest highway...
Back to Their Shack. But after a few months Gil and Maggie ran away from the farm and lit out for their shack on Half Moon. An alarm was sounded, but Abe Stern, police chief of Ramapo township, didn't do anything about it. "Gil and Maggie will make out all right," he said...
...wrong about that. A spell of hot weather brought the dogwood out, and one day last week, Half Moon was misty with its whiteness. Gil propped himself up to take a good look. "Never seen it prettier, even if it is late," he told Maggie. Then he fell back and closed his eyes for the last time...