Not far from Woodstown Whimsies… lies a place called Nonesuch Creek. Our story begins there on a damp, drear morning in late,
late April… the 30th to be exact! The wind was driving the rain like a puppet-master; the emerging spring
leaves were dancing without restraint, stately trillium bowed their crimson and white heads while the barely-visible fiddlehead fronds of the bracken fern
quaked at the clap of thunder.
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Mud underfoot as she trudged alone in the shadows of the swamp maples, one of the Stanton sisters emerged. Etta stood shivering in the rain (soaked like a wet muskrat) along the banks of the now overflowing creek.
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The
youngest Stanton sibling, Woodruff… waited patiently for his sister to get into his little red
boat. The murky waters continued to rise; Woodruff remained steadfast. He had been gathering acorns; leftovers found underneath the decaying leaves of the Great Oak (few would have even ventured there).
Young Woodruff delighted in his boat-load of treasures! The rain persisted as they pushed off from the shoreline, unsure as to where the current might take them.
