The Fernbank News:
9/9/1927
9/9/1927
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No wonder Alma loved picnics. All that lobster!
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FERNBANK NEWS.
Vol. I, No. 5.
September 9, and on.
Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
THE WEATHER
The weather is looking up. In fact it has looked up. We have had a week without rain, and only the first two days were foggy. To-day is equal to the famous Clearest Day of the Weather celebrated in verse by Kathleen Stokey. We are now having what in days of yore we called typical Woods Hole weather, but we shall have to forget July and August 1927 before we can speak that way.
GARDINER ROAD NEWS.
Dr. and Mrs. Fogg have returned to Philadelphia and the Schramm cottage is now occupied by Miss Plumley and Miss Hinkley.
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Miss Helen Clark of Newton Highlands, Mount Holyoke, 1927, and Miss Martin of New Bedford called at Fernbank Sept. 9. Miss Stokey was carrying home a pound of butter on her bicycle when she met Miss Plumley who told her that two ladies had just gone over to the Botany Building to hunt her. She cycled quickly over and found Miss Clarke and Miss Watson (her name is Watson, not Martin) leaving the laboratory. Miss Clark went swimming with Miss Stokey and Mrs. Evans. They both agreed that Miss Clark was the most graceful swimmer seen in the Bay in many a day.
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There is very little shipping on the Millpond these days. Miss Cornelia Clapp has been seen rowing Miss Mary Clapp around the pond. A small boy, name unknown to the editor, has been sculling a boat occasionally.
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A magnificent sunset was seen by the Fernbank household Friday night, Sept. 9.
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Miss Charlotte Haywood left for her home in Lynn, Mass., Sept. 1st.
Mr. Geoffrey Atkinson of Amherst College and his mother, Mrs. Atkinson, are in town and have been calling at the Rogers cottage. Mr. Atkinson was in Brussels last year, holding a C.R.B. fellowship.
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Miss Clapp has had a sheetrock ceiling put in (on or over) her livingroom at PineKnot.
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Miss Stokey has jungled twice within the last week, owing to the irresistible weather. As a result the Poison Ivy has run to cover and only the trained eye can find it.
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At a recent inspection of the corduroy road around the corner of Fernbank, the chief engineer was somewhat disturbed to find that the road was liable to become a willow grove (not in the Philadelphia sense*). The cords are developing shoots, but they may succumb to the heavy tread of A.G.S. and E.S.E.
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A new fern has been transplanted from the adjoining premises to Fernbank. It is a handsome Cinnamon Fern and is now comfortably settled in front and somewhat to the right of the pines which are in front of the porch. (It is really to the left, but the editor thinks it would be easier to move the fern than to change the four copies of the paper.)
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Miss Dorothy Stewart, who has been a frequent caller at Fernbank this summer, left for her home in Hanover, N.H., Wed. Sept. 7 at 9:10 A.M. She drove 210 miles that day, and spent the night with her sister-in-law, 50 miles this side of Hanover.
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*An Amusement Park in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
FERNBANK NEWS.
Vol. I, No. 5.
September 9, and on.
Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
THE WEATHER
The weather is looking up. In fact it has looked up. We have had a week without rain, and only the first two days were foggy. To-day is equal to the famous Clearest Day of the Weather celebrated in verse by Kathleen Stokey. We are now having what in days of yore we called typical Woods Hole weather, but we shall have to forget July and August 1927 before we can speak that way.
GARDINER ROAD NEWS.
Dr. and Mrs. Fogg have returned to Philadelphia and the Schramm cottage is now occupied by Miss Plumley and Miss Hinkley.
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Miss Helen Clark of Newton Highlands, Mount Holyoke, 1927, and Miss Martin of New Bedford called at Fernbank Sept. 9. Miss Stokey was carrying home a pound of butter on her bicycle when she met Miss Plumley who told her that two ladies had just gone over to the Botany Building to hunt her. She cycled quickly over and found Miss Clarke and Miss Watson (her name is Watson, not Martin) leaving the laboratory. Miss Clark went swimming with Miss Stokey and Mrs. Evans. They both agreed that Miss Clark was the most graceful swimmer seen in the Bay in many a day.
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There is very little shipping on the Millpond these days. Miss Cornelia Clapp has been seen rowing Miss Mary Clapp around the pond. A small boy, name unknown to the editor, has been sculling a boat occasionally.
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A magnificent sunset was seen by the Fernbank household Friday night, Sept. 9.
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Miss Charlotte Haywood left for her home in Lynn, Mass., Sept. 1st.
Mr. Geoffrey Atkinson of Amherst College and his mother, Mrs. Atkinson, are in town and have been calling at the Rogers cottage. Mr. Atkinson was in Brussels last year, holding a C.R.B. fellowship.
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Miss Clapp has had a sheetrock ceiling put in (on or over) her livingroom at PineKnot.
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Miss Stokey has jungled twice within the last week, owing to the irresistible weather. As a result the Poison Ivy has run to cover and only the trained eye can find it.
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At a recent inspection of the corduroy road around the corner of Fernbank, the chief engineer was somewhat disturbed to find that the road was liable to become a willow grove (not in the Philadelphia sense*). The cords are developing shoots, but they may succumb to the heavy tread of A.G.S. and E.S.E.
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A new fern has been transplanted from the adjoining premises to Fernbank. It is a handsome Cinnamon Fern and is now comfortably settled in front and somewhat to the right of the pines which are in front of the porch. (It is really to the left, but the editor thinks it would be easier to move the fern than to change the four copies of the paper.)
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Miss Dorothy Stewart, who has been a frequent caller at Fernbank this summer, left for her home in Hanover, N.H., Wed. Sept. 7 at 9:10 A.M. She drove 210 miles that day, and spent the night with her sister-in-law, 50 miles this side of Hanover.
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*An Amusement Park in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
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SOCIETY NEWS.
Miss Dorothy Stewart gave a picnic at Racing Beach, Tuesday night, Aug. 30th. It was a delightful affair. Among those present were Miss Stokey, Mrs. Evans, and several mosquitos.
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Miss Dorothy Stewart took Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey to Hyannis Saturday, Sept. 2nd. They shopped and bought four Christmas presents, but they will not be described for fear our subscribers will try to guess for whom they are.
They had tea, and very good it was, at the Tea Barn.
They then progressed towards the north side of the cape looking for a suitable picnic spot, but the mosquitos had preceeded them and pre-empted all places. As darkness threatened to overtake them before they found a suitable spot, they encamped in a meadow, of which spots were a marsh. Mrs. Evans was wrapped in a blanket for safe keeping while Miss Stewart and Miss Stokey prepared the lobster. They found it difficult to combine the process of preparing lobster with jiggling off mosquitos. In due time, however, they were free to wrap themselves in what blanket was available. Head coverings came in fashion to prevent the mosquitos gnawing through bobbed hair. The sunset was fine and the view beautiful.
After supper they drove to Sandwich and crossed the canal; as they neared Bourne they saw the New York boat. They alighted and saw the boat go through the bridge. Since seeing the size of the boat they are feeling more respectful to the canal, and no longer regard it as a ditch. It was very foggy at that time and the fog continued until after they had reached Woods Hole.
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Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Stokey entertained Mr. and Mrs. Parmenter (Hazeltine Stedman) at dinner Wednesday night. After dinner Mrs. Evans sang all the songs of "When we were very young."
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Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey took dinner with Dr. and Mrs. Meyer, Friday, Sept. 2.
Mrs. Blau took dinner with Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey Thursday night. After dinner (or was it supper) she read over the von Fielitz songs with Mrs. Evans.
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Tuesday night Miss Ruth Ferry, Mount Holyoke, 1921, and Mrs. Ferry, Miss Stewart and Miss Rogers spent the evening at Fernbank. Miss Ferry and Mrs. Evans sang. Cake and lemonade (of the type described by K.S. as "medium") were served.
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Mrs. Evans, Miss Stokey and Miss Stewart went calling Sunday.
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SPORTING NEWS.
The Uncatena is on its sea legs again, or was, a few days ago. We hope it still is. It was seen coming through the Hole last week.
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The good weather has favored bicycling and the bicycles were both taken out of their stalls Thursday, but Mrs. Evans decided that hers had too many infirmities to make riding a pleasure; the wheel is not centered and the front wheel is a trifle unsteady.
Miss Stokey is riding with more steadiness and has found the coaster brake - that is she can find it when she needs it. She still requires considerable room for turning and had to make three attempts to turn in the Lillie's drive. She has elevated the saddle and that has helped her poise; she can now ride to Buzzards Bay Avenue in one attempt.
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SWIMMING. The water in the Bay is getting cool; it dropped 7 degrees during August. Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey swam to the raft to-day when the tide was over half in. A few days ago Miss Stokey swam back from the raft on her right side - an unnatural feat for her.
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MUSIC.
At the final meeting of the Choral Club Sept. 2nd, Father Keefe was elected President and Mrs. Evans Librarian. Dr. Packard was elected secretary.
SOCIETY NEWS.
Miss Dorothy Stewart gave a picnic at Racing Beach, Tuesday night, Aug. 30th. It was a delightful affair. Among those present were Miss Stokey, Mrs. Evans, and several mosquitos.
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Miss Dorothy Stewart took Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey to Hyannis Saturday, Sept. 2nd. They shopped and bought four Christmas presents, but they will not be described for fear our subscribers will try to guess for whom they are.
They had tea, and very good it was, at the Tea Barn.
They then progressed towards the north side of the cape looking for a suitable picnic spot, but the mosquitos had preceeded them and pre-empted all places. As darkness threatened to overtake them before they found a suitable spot, they encamped in a meadow, of which spots were a marsh. Mrs. Evans was wrapped in a blanket for safe keeping while Miss Stewart and Miss Stokey prepared the lobster. They found it difficult to combine the process of preparing lobster with jiggling off mosquitos. In due time, however, they were free to wrap themselves in what blanket was available. Head coverings came in fashion to prevent the mosquitos gnawing through bobbed hair. The sunset was fine and the view beautiful.
After supper they drove to Sandwich and crossed the canal; as they neared Bourne they saw the New York boat. They alighted and saw the boat go through the bridge. Since seeing the size of the boat they are feeling more respectful to the canal, and no longer regard it as a ditch. It was very foggy at that time and the fog continued until after they had reached Woods Hole.
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Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Stokey entertained Mr. and Mrs. Parmenter (Hazeltine Stedman) at dinner Wednesday night. After dinner Mrs. Evans sang all the songs of "When we were very young."
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Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey took dinner with Dr. and Mrs. Meyer, Friday, Sept. 2.
Mrs. Blau took dinner with Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey Thursday night. After dinner (or was it supper) she read over the von Fielitz songs with Mrs. Evans.
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Tuesday night Miss Ruth Ferry, Mount Holyoke, 1921, and Mrs. Ferry, Miss Stewart and Miss Rogers spent the evening at Fernbank. Miss Ferry and Mrs. Evans sang. Cake and lemonade (of the type described by K.S. as "medium") were served.
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Mrs. Evans, Miss Stokey and Miss Stewart went calling Sunday.
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SPORTING NEWS.
The Uncatena is on its sea legs again, or was, a few days ago. We hope it still is. It was seen coming through the Hole last week.
- - - -
The good weather has favored bicycling and the bicycles were both taken out of their stalls Thursday, but Mrs. Evans decided that hers had too many infirmities to make riding a pleasure; the wheel is not centered and the front wheel is a trifle unsteady.
Miss Stokey is riding with more steadiness and has found the coaster brake - that is she can find it when she needs it. She still requires considerable room for turning and had to make three attempts to turn in the Lillie's drive. She has elevated the saddle and that has helped her poise; she can now ride to Buzzards Bay Avenue in one attempt.
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SWIMMING. The water in the Bay is getting cool; it dropped 7 degrees during August. Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey swam to the raft to-day when the tide was over half in. A few days ago Miss Stokey swam back from the raft on her right side - an unnatural feat for her.
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MUSIC.
At the final meeting of the Choral Club Sept. 2nd, Father Keefe was elected President and Mrs. Evans Librarian. Dr. Packard was elected secretary.
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Sweet with Hay. No. 2
Inspired by "Sweet with hay" by D.G.W.
Alma Stokey, sweet with hay
Pulls out grapevines every day,
(Every day would be absurd,
But the rhythm needs the word);
Just look out beyond the pine,
If perchance the day is fine,
Or, more likely if it's cloudy,
You will see a Jungleer dowdy
Grubbing out the grapes and brambles
To make safe your future rambles,
Or chopping rampant willow trees,
To let in sunshine and the breeze,
Or yanking from the swampy sward
Poison Ivy by the yard,
Or sickling off the lush green grass,
Which the rains have brought to pass,
Or piling it to make sweet hay,
When she carries it away.
So, Alma Stokey, sweet with hay,
Grubs at Fernbank every day,
While her sister sings a song,
Or to the Kitchen hies along,
To cook the fish or make a pie,
Or agitate the food supply.
Then Alma Stokey, sweet with hay,
To Laboratory makes her way,
For she no longer has to rake
The Algae from the pond, or take
The cinders up to bury it
But forthwith to her work can flit,
Since causes unknown to the scribe
Have worked upon the mill-pond wide,
And killed or sunk the Algae green
Which once upon its face was seen.
The rains which come most every day
Perchance have driven it away,
While making Fernbank sweet with hay.
A.G.S.
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Sunday, Sept. 11th. The 1927 model of weather is now in session - rain, fog, thunder, and other objectionable features.
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Owing to the torrential rains this day, Sept. 11th, our path has looked like a brook and the corduroy road has become Willow Grovier.
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The path has a new border of stones brought from the bathing beach.
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Saturday evening, Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey went with Mr. and Miss Rogers to Nobska to see the full moon; Mr. Atkinson, took Mrs. Atkinson and Mrs. Rogers.
Exchanges.
Great interest has been shown in our latest exchange - the esteemed "City of Columbus Clippings." So notable a paper is worthy of a large circulation. We gleaned from its columns that the visitors who have been at Fernbank, arrived in Savannah safely. Your editor hopes that in future visits at Fernbank, the esteemed editor of the "City of Columbus Clippings" will favor these columns with some contributions.
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We have not received any numbers of "BUNGALOW BREVITIES" recently. We hope the editor has not had to work so hard getting the house in order for his wife and children that he has had to give up editorial work.
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MUSIC NOTES
Dr. and Mrs. Meyer gave the last of their series of musicales, Monday, August 29. Mrs. Evans sang a group of Frantz songs. She also sang Gounod's "Dites-Moi" with violin obligato by Mr. Frost.
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Mrs. Evans has been giving lessons in "mmmmmmmmmmmmm minniminniminniminniminni" and in "L-R-N-D-T-L-R-N-D-T" not to mention "da me ni po tu la be" to her talented pupils, Miss Stewart, Miss Rogers, and Miss Stokey.
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PICNIC.
There was a picnic at our usual picnic place Saturday night. Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey walked up from Fernbank; Miss Rogers, Mrs. Atkinson and Mr. Atkinson walked down from the Rogers cottage. Mr. Atkinson carried an arm chair on his head and a thermos bottle in his hand, to the astonishment of all the dogs. After Mrs. Evans had relieved the sandwiches of the surplus butter (lavishly spread by L.M.R.) and introduced the lobster into them, the picnic was ready. We ate and ate and ate; we also drank hot tea and medium lemonade. Mrs. Evans cake, about which there had been some doubt, turned out to be a success.
The tide was higher than the editor had ever seen it; it came within 3 ft. of the breakwater near the center.
Sweet with Hay. No. 2
Inspired by "Sweet with hay" by D.G.W.
Alma Stokey, sweet with hay
Pulls out grapevines every day,
(Every day would be absurd,
But the rhythm needs the word);
Just look out beyond the pine,
If perchance the day is fine,
Or, more likely if it's cloudy,
You will see a Jungleer dowdy
Grubbing out the grapes and brambles
To make safe your future rambles,
Or chopping rampant willow trees,
To let in sunshine and the breeze,
Or yanking from the swampy sward
Poison Ivy by the yard,
Or sickling off the lush green grass,
Which the rains have brought to pass,
Or piling it to make sweet hay,
When she carries it away.
So, Alma Stokey, sweet with hay,
Grubs at Fernbank every day,
While her sister sings a song,
Or to the Kitchen hies along,
To cook the fish or make a pie,
Or agitate the food supply.
Then Alma Stokey, sweet with hay,
To Laboratory makes her way,
For she no longer has to rake
The Algae from the pond, or take
The cinders up to bury it
But forthwith to her work can flit,
Since causes unknown to the scribe
Have worked upon the mill-pond wide,
And killed or sunk the Algae green
Which once upon its face was seen.
The rains which come most every day
Perchance have driven it away,
While making Fernbank sweet with hay.
A.G.S.
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Sunday, Sept. 11th. The 1927 model of weather is now in session - rain, fog, thunder, and other objectionable features.
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Owing to the torrential rains this day, Sept. 11th, our path has looked like a brook and the corduroy road has become Willow Grovier.
- - - - - - - -
The path has a new border of stones brought from the bathing beach.
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Saturday evening, Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey went with Mr. and Miss Rogers to Nobska to see the full moon; Mr. Atkinson, took Mrs. Atkinson and Mrs. Rogers.
Exchanges.
Great interest has been shown in our latest exchange - the esteemed "City of Columbus Clippings." So notable a paper is worthy of a large circulation. We gleaned from its columns that the visitors who have been at Fernbank, arrived in Savannah safely. Your editor hopes that in future visits at Fernbank, the esteemed editor of the "City of Columbus Clippings" will favor these columns with some contributions.
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We have not received any numbers of "BUNGALOW BREVITIES" recently. We hope the editor has not had to work so hard getting the house in order for his wife and children that he has had to give up editorial work.
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MUSIC NOTES
Dr. and Mrs. Meyer gave the last of their series of musicales, Monday, August 29. Mrs. Evans sang a group of Frantz songs. She also sang Gounod's "Dites-Moi" with violin obligato by Mr. Frost.
- - - -
Mrs. Evans has been giving lessons in "mmmmmmmmmmmmm minniminniminniminniminni" and in "L-R-N-D-T-L-R-N-D-T" not to mention "da me ni po tu la be" to her talented pupils, Miss Stewart, Miss Rogers, and Miss Stokey.
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PICNIC.
There was a picnic at our usual picnic place Saturday night. Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey walked up from Fernbank; Miss Rogers, Mrs. Atkinson and Mr. Atkinson walked down from the Rogers cottage. Mr. Atkinson carried an arm chair on his head and a thermos bottle in his hand, to the astonishment of all the dogs. After Mrs. Evans had relieved the sandwiches of the surplus butter (lavishly spread by L.M.R.) and introduced the lobster into them, the picnic was ready. We ate and ate and ate; we also drank hot tea and medium lemonade. Mrs. Evans cake, about which there had been some doubt, turned out to be a success.
The tide was higher than the editor had ever seen it; it came within 3 ft. of the breakwater near the center.
1927-09-09: audio---images---comment---transcript---~NOTES~---links---site navigation
1.
This is a stop in the Tour of the nineteen editions of The Fernbank News that were published over the course of nearly 40 years.
The brochure for this Tour is at:
2.
September 9, and on.
No year is given, but it is later mentioned that September 9 was a Friday that summer. September 9, 1927 was a Friday.
3.
To-day is equal to the famous Clearest Day of the Weather celebrated in verse by Kathleen Stokey.
Currently I haven't really looked at the previous Fernbank Newses, which will probably tell me more about this. I think the Kathleen in question was probably Kay, not her mother. [Yup. Link to be provided when I get to it.]
4.
Miss Stokey was carrying home a pound of butter on her bicycle
I don't think there was a refrigerator at Fernbank at this point, but Alma would have known whether the location at the bottom of the basement stairs was cool enough to keep butter for a while.
5.
Miss Cornelia Clapp has been seen rowing Miss Mary Clapp around the pond.
Cornelia Clapp is in both the Non-Family pages on this website for both the South Hadley folks and the Woods Hole folks, since I never can decide where she belongs.
6.
Mr. Geoffrey Atkinson of Amherst College and his mother, Mrs. Atkinson, are in town and have been calling at the Rogers cottage. Mr. Atkinson was in Brussels last year, holding a C.R.B. fellowship.
The attraction at the Rogers cottage was, of course, Lenette Rogers, whom Geoffroy married the following summer. Geoffroy and Lenette Atkinson are in the Non-Family page on this website for South Hadley folks.
7.
At a recent inspection of the corduroy road around the corner of Fernbank, the chief engineer was somewhat disturbed to find that the road was liable to become a willow grove (not in the Philadelphia sense*).
...
*An Amusement Park in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
Wikipedia says:
Willow Grove Park was an amusement park located in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. It operated for eighty years, from 1896 to 1975.
and also:
One of the biggest attractions in the park was the music pavilion, at which John Philip Sousa and his band played several times between 1901 and 1926.
So that's why Eva would have mentioned it.
8.
After supper they drove to Sandwich and crossed the canal; as they neared Bourne they saw the New York boat. They alighted and saw the boat go through the bridge. Since seeing the size of the boat they are feeling more respectful to the canal, and no longer regard it as a ditch.
According to Wikipedia, the Cape Cod Canal was completed in 1916, after several years of work. Therefore it would have still felt pretty new to Alma and Eva in 1927.
9.
Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Stokey entertained Mr. and Mrs. Parmenter (Hazeltine Stedman) at dinner Wednesday night.
When I was growing up, it was just Hazeltine Parmenter. Honestly, I'm not sure I ever knew that there had been a Mr. Parmenter.
10.
After dinner Mrs. Evans sang all the songs of "When we were very young."
When We Were Very Young is one of the Winnie The Pooh books. Alma had given the Atlanta Stokeys the original Winnie The Pooh book the previous Christmas - see: I'm surprised to learn that there was music for the poems so soon.
11.
Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey took dinner with Dr. and Mrs. Meyer, Friday, Sept. 2.
The Meyers are in the Non-Family page on this website for Woods Hole folks.
12.
The Uncatena is on its sea legs again, or was, a few days ago.
Uncatena was a Woods Hole ferry to Martha's Vineyard when I was growing up, but the 1927 Uncatena was, I think, a previous incarnation that Wikipedia doesn't mention.
13.
Sweet with Hay. No. 2
Inspired by "Sweet with hay" by D.G.W.
Here's DGW's version of Sweet with Hay:
14.
Great interest has been shown in our latest exchange - the esteemed "City of Columbus Clippings."
I was thrilled to see this mention of the City of Columbus Clippings, because we have it, but it doesn't (so far as I've noticed) have a date on it, so I had delayed adding it to this website in the hope that I'd get a date for it...and now I've got it. After I've finished with the Fernbank News, I'll add the City of Columbus Clippings. I'm not sure how long after.
15.
We have not received any numbers of "BUNGALOW BREVITIES" recently.
We've got this too. Will wrote it in response to the Fernbank News. Another thing to tackle after I finish with the Fernbank News.
16.
This Fernbank News would have gone out to the Atlanta Stokeys, telling Kathleen and the kids what happened after they went home from Woods Hole, and also to Fred in Africa.
This is a stop in the Tour of the nineteen editions of The Fernbank News that were published over the course of nearly 40 years.
- The previous Tour stop is: 1927-08-27 FERNBANK NEWS
- The next Tour stop is: 1928-07-01 FERNBANK NEWS
The brochure for this Tour is at:
2.
September 9, and on.
No year is given, but it is later mentioned that September 9 was a Friday that summer. September 9, 1927 was a Friday.
3.
To-day is equal to the famous Clearest Day of the Weather celebrated in verse by Kathleen Stokey.
Currently I haven't really looked at the previous Fernbank Newses, which will probably tell me more about this. I think the Kathleen in question was probably Kay, not her mother. [Yup. Link to be provided when I get to it.]
4.
Miss Stokey was carrying home a pound of butter on her bicycle
I don't think there was a refrigerator at Fernbank at this point, but Alma would have known whether the location at the bottom of the basement stairs was cool enough to keep butter for a while.
5.
Miss Cornelia Clapp has been seen rowing Miss Mary Clapp around the pond.
Cornelia Clapp is in both the Non-Family pages on this website for both the South Hadley folks and the Woods Hole folks, since I never can decide where she belongs.
6.
Mr. Geoffrey Atkinson of Amherst College and his mother, Mrs. Atkinson, are in town and have been calling at the Rogers cottage. Mr. Atkinson was in Brussels last year, holding a C.R.B. fellowship.
The attraction at the Rogers cottage was, of course, Lenette Rogers, whom Geoffroy married the following summer. Geoffroy and Lenette Atkinson are in the Non-Family page on this website for South Hadley folks.
7.
At a recent inspection of the corduroy road around the corner of Fernbank, the chief engineer was somewhat disturbed to find that the road was liable to become a willow grove (not in the Philadelphia sense*).
...
*An Amusement Park in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
Wikipedia says:
Willow Grove Park was an amusement park located in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. It operated for eighty years, from 1896 to 1975.
and also:
One of the biggest attractions in the park was the music pavilion, at which John Philip Sousa and his band played several times between 1901 and 1926.
So that's why Eva would have mentioned it.
8.
After supper they drove to Sandwich and crossed the canal; as they neared Bourne they saw the New York boat. They alighted and saw the boat go through the bridge. Since seeing the size of the boat they are feeling more respectful to the canal, and no longer regard it as a ditch.
According to Wikipedia, the Cape Cod Canal was completed in 1916, after several years of work. Therefore it would have still felt pretty new to Alma and Eva in 1927.
9.
Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Stokey entertained Mr. and Mrs. Parmenter (Hazeltine Stedman) at dinner Wednesday night.
When I was growing up, it was just Hazeltine Parmenter. Honestly, I'm not sure I ever knew that there had been a Mr. Parmenter.
10.
After dinner Mrs. Evans sang all the songs of "When we were very young."
When We Were Very Young is one of the Winnie The Pooh books. Alma had given the Atlanta Stokeys the original Winnie The Pooh book the previous Christmas - see: I'm surprised to learn that there was music for the poems so soon.
11.
Mrs. Evans and Miss Stokey took dinner with Dr. and Mrs. Meyer, Friday, Sept. 2.
The Meyers are in the Non-Family page on this website for Woods Hole folks.
12.
The Uncatena is on its sea legs again, or was, a few days ago.
Uncatena was a Woods Hole ferry to Martha's Vineyard when I was growing up, but the 1927 Uncatena was, I think, a previous incarnation that Wikipedia doesn't mention.
13.
Sweet with Hay. No. 2
Inspired by "Sweet with hay" by D.G.W.
Here's DGW's version of Sweet with Hay:
14.
Great interest has been shown in our latest exchange - the esteemed "City of Columbus Clippings."
I was thrilled to see this mention of the City of Columbus Clippings, because we have it, but it doesn't (so far as I've noticed) have a date on it, so I had delayed adding it to this website in the hope that I'd get a date for it...and now I've got it. After I've finished with the Fernbank News, I'll add the City of Columbus Clippings. I'm not sure how long after.
15.
We have not received any numbers of "BUNGALOW BREVITIES" recently.
We've got this too. Will wrote it in response to the Fernbank News. Another thing to tackle after I finish with the Fernbank News.
16.
This Fernbank News would have gone out to the Atlanta Stokeys, telling Kathleen and the kids what happened after they went home from Woods Hole, and also to Fred in Africa.
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