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This tour gives all of the editions of the Fernbank News, which was the newsletter from Fernbank, started by Aunt Alma in 1927. I've given my idea of how it all started in my notes for the very first edition, from July 31, 1927.
There is a separate page for the overall subject of Fernbank:
Most of the editions of the Fernbank News have various versions. In 1927, there were no photocopy machines. Alma made carbon copies, but there was a limit to how many carbon copies could be made at once, and if more copies were needed, Alma would type the edition out again, with improvements. Or anyway, that's what I figure the process to have been.
Mostly I've used what seemed to be the last version of each edition. (Thank you to Barbara for that work!)
When my brother Roger did a couple of editions in 1965 and 1966, he photocopied them using the machine at our father's office. He remembers how huge the photocopy machines were back then, unlike the desktop printer/scanner/copiers we have now in our homes.
When I was a child, there was a binder holding at Fernbank holding all the Fernbank Newses. At some point - when Fernbank was sold, I imagine - that binder went elsewhere. It probably went to my Aunt Kay in Oregon, because it ended up at her house. Aunt Kay's oldest daughter, my cousin Ellen, lived there after Aunt Kay died, and I believe Ellen made a good effort to preserve the pages. Or else it was Aunt Kay who made those efforts. Anyway, after Ellen's death, the Fernbank News went to Barbara, who scanned it. She sent me a thumb drive in 2025.
I've uploaded all the editions that we have. I believe there are no missing editions, because I can see why there were gaps in the earlier years. Specifically:
I don't know or can't remember about the years after 1936, but I figure that since the early gap years are satisfactorily accounted for, then the later gap years are also, indeed, also gap years. If there had been other editions, they surely would have been added to the binder.
There is also a Tour (just begun, with lots to add) for pages related to the Fernbank News:
As is standard with the Tours, each stop in the Tour has links to the previous stop and the next stop in the Tour.
There is a separate page for the overall subject of Fernbank:
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Most of the editions of the Fernbank News have various versions. In 1927, there were no photocopy machines. Alma made carbon copies, but there was a limit to how many carbon copies could be made at once, and if more copies were needed, Alma would type the edition out again, with improvements. Or anyway, that's what I figure the process to have been.
Mostly I've used what seemed to be the last version of each edition. (Thank you to Barbara for that work!)
When my brother Roger did a couple of editions in 1965 and 1966, he photocopied them using the machine at our father's office. He remembers how huge the photocopy machines were back then, unlike the desktop printer/scanner/copiers we have now in our homes.
When I was a child, there was a binder holding at Fernbank holding all the Fernbank Newses. At some point - when Fernbank was sold, I imagine - that binder went elsewhere. It probably went to my Aunt Kay in Oregon, because it ended up at her house. Aunt Kay's oldest daughter, my cousin Ellen, lived there after Aunt Kay died, and I believe Ellen made a good effort to preserve the pages. Or else it was Aunt Kay who made those efforts. Anyway, after Ellen's death, the Fernbank News went to Barbara, who scanned it. She sent me a thumb drive in 2025.
I've uploaded all the editions that we have. I believe there are no missing editions, because I can see why there were gaps in the earlier years. Specifically:
- 1929, 1930, 1931: These are the three summers of Alma's first India sojourn. There were lots of Stokeys at Fernbank in 1929 (which was Fred's first summer at home after his second Africa sojourn; this was the summer when most of the Stokeys met Fred's new wife, Sibyl), but there was no Fernbank News in Alma's absence. In 1930, Fernbank was rented out. I don't know about 1931.
- 1934: The Atlanta Stokeys stayed in Georgia except for Will who was vainly pursuing oil wealth in Texas, and Fernbank was rented out in August while Alma and Eva went on a road trip.
- 1937: Alma was on her way home from her second India sojourn. I can't remember if anybody in the family was at Fernbank.
I don't know or can't remember about the years after 1936, but I figure that since the early gap years are satisfactorily accounted for, then the later gap years are also, indeed, also gap years. If there had been other editions, they surely would have been added to the binder.
There is also a Tour (just begun, with lots to add) for pages related to the Fernbank News:
As is standard with the Tours, each stop in the Tour has links to the previous stop and the next stop in the Tour.
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- 1927-07-31 FERNBANK NEWS ----- The four Stokeylets create a newspaper, with Aunt Alma's help.
- 1927-08-13 FERNBANK NEWS ----- News of Mr. Uncle Fred.
- 1927-08-22 FERNBANK NEWS ----- Fun contributions from Miss Munro, a visiting English friend.
- 1927-08-27 FERNBANK NEWS ----- A day trip to Martha's Vineyard.
- 1927-09-09 FERNBANK NEWS ----- Here's what happens in Woods Hole after the Atlanta Stokeys go home.
- 1928-07-01 FERNBANK NEWS ----- Geoffroy and Lenette Atkinson are married.
- 1928-08-06 FERNBANK NEWS ----- A second 1928 edition, featuring Maggie and Billy
- 1932-08-03 FERNBANK NEWS ----- Alma spends her first summer at Fernbank since 1928.
- 1933-08-07 FERNBANK NEWS ----- Will's four children are at Fernbank for the summer, along with Alma, Fred and Sibyl, and Eva, plus Curtis McDowell. And two cats.
- 1935-03-31 FERNBANK NEWS ----- Fred is living at Fernbank, and Alma went with Fredda Reed to visit him.
- 1936-09-07 FERNBANK NEWS ----- In Alma's absence, her niece Kay does the News.
- 1936-12-15 FERNBANK NEWS ----- Kay has more to tell about the August 1936 stay at Fernbank.
- 1942-10-04 FERNBANK NEWS ----- Fernbank deals with World War II.
- 1945-08-23 FERNBANK NEWS ----- Fernbank celebrates the end of World War II.
- 1957-08-20 FERNBANK NEWS ----- Aunt Alma resurrects the Fernbank News to entertain her visiting great-nieces.
- 1958-07 FERNBANK NEWS ----- Fewer children at Fernbank, but lots of incoming news.
- 1960-10-01 FERNBANK NEWS ----- Alma's last Fernbank News, assisted by her great-nieces Barbara and Nancy.
- 1965-07-04 FERNBANK NEWS ----- The generation after The Next Generation carries on without Aunt Alma
- 1966-07-31 FERNBANK NEWS ----- The very last Fernbank News.
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