Timeline
Mater is born.
Mater marries her childhood sweetheart
(1965) Birth of Fred
(1968) Birth of Abcynthia Hogg
(1970) Birth of Aunt Idle
(1978) April 12 - Mater’s husband dies
(1988) March, the mines are closed after an incident. It's about the time of the Carts and Lager Festival, when Idle gets pregnant. After the incident, the Cart and Lager Festival stop for a while.
(1988) Idle gives birth to a child in Fiji - she got pregnant after the Carts and Lager festival, the father is Howard. The child is given at a local orphanage where she later becomes a nun, being known as Sister Finli. She travels under the assumed identity Liana Parker.
(1989) Hannah Hogg's death Abcynthia's mother, Hannah Hogg, died in somewhat suspicious circumstances shortly before the mines closed.
(1989) Horace Hogg death - Inn passes down to Abby The Flying Fish Inn was passed down to Abcynthia (the children's mother) from her father*, who had a boarding house during the gold rush. He died just after the mine closed and Abcynthia closed the place up and moved to…
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(1990) Fred marries Abcynthia
(1998) Birth of Devan
(2008) Carts & Lager Festival Revival — 20 years after the last Festival and the closure of the mines. Some folks thought to revive the festival as a prank, but people had so much fun the council agreed to renew it the next year, and the year after that it…
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(2008) Birth of Prune
A few months after Abcynthia’s disappearance, some unexplained incidents occurred in the area around the ghost town and the defunct mines ~ possibly connected to the sci fi novel Fred was writing in some way ~ which Fred wrote articles about, which went viral in the popular imagination and thirst…
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(2010) Fred leaves his family goes into hiding
(2014) Start of Prune’s journal about the Inn (she’s 6 at the time ref)
(2021) Italian tourists make the Inn famous, creating a regular income stream for the family, and allowing for needed repairs.
(2027) First settlers on Mars Prune’s left for a boarding school to pursue her dreams