The Babbling Brook

**The Babbling Brook** is the local newspaper of Nettlebrook.

## History

It is unknown when The Babbling Brook was founded, but it is known to have operated since before at least 1980's. Content-wise, it has been described as being more like a bulletin. The newspaper also does not credit its contributors directly, instead only having text saying "written by The Babbling Brook Staff" on the front page.

Historically, the position of Editor has been reserved for members of the Chamberlain family. The former Editor-in-Chief was Peter W. Chamberlain, who was accused of often censoring the news during his 40 years at the paper. After Peter's murder in 2019, Drew Harris became his successor.

### Hunter Holloway

Hunter Holloway got his start writing articles for The Babbling Brook, but did not keep any of his articles after leaving the town. He mentioned having been fired "for reporting on things [Peter Chamberlain] didn't want [him] to".

When asking for copies of his old articles from the current staff of the newspaper, he was told that did not have access to them, which Hunter himself noted seems legally tenuous. He was similarly denied access to the archives of the Nettlebrook Public Library, which very likely also contain old copies of the newspaper.

After returning to the town to investigate the various disappearances over the past decades, Hunter received a copy of The Babbling Brook delivered to his doorstep, despite not being a subscriber. One of the articles in the paper was about him, including a photograph. Attached to the paper was a note by its at the time very new Editor-in-Chief, Drew Harris, asking him for a meeting. Hunter agreed, and met with Drew, who told him that The Babbling Brook would be branching out into the internet, and asked Hunter to be the first subject of the first video for the "Citizen Spotlight" section, which he declined.

Earlier that year, Drew also asked Echo Rose for an interview for the weekly Citizen Spotlight column, who also declined.

## Known Articles

### Roller coaster lightning strike incident

The title or full content of this article are unknown, its existence has only been reported by Hunter Holloway on his blog.

The article, written in 1989, is about the disaster at that year's *Bog Days Festival*, in which a roller coaster was struck by lightning, leading to the deaths of 9 children. Despite this tragedy, the festival was not cancelled. Hunter, the article's author, was himself an eye-witness at the event.

### *Local non-profit shuts doors under cloud of scrutiny*

This article, written by Hunter Holloway, is about the closing of the Giving Tree Foundation after being accused of "financial irregularities and multiple legal violations".

The publication date of the article is unknown.

### *Welcoming Back A Former Babbling Brooks Reporter!*

Article published on 27 November 2019. This is the article that Hunter reported on in his blog.

The article is a short biography of Hunter Holloway's career, and includes a photograph of him.

### *Misty Graves named Nettlebrook's Artist-In-Residence*

Article published on 27 November 2019. The article is about Misty Graves, but the only photograph of the article is cut off after only three lines.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *The Talented Mr. Harris* on Hunter Holloway's blog; https://hunterhollowaynettlebrook.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-talented-mr-harris.html
2. ↑ *The Hale legacy and weird observations* on Hunter Holloway's Tumblr; https://hunterhollowaynettlebrook.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-hale-legacy-and-weird-observations.html
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Peter W. Chamberlain murdered* on Hunter Holloway's blog; https://hunterhollowaynettlebrook.blogspot.com/2019/09/a-mysterious-murder.html
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 *An unfortunate update* on Hunter Holloway's blog; https://hunterhollowaynettlebrook.blogspot.com/2019/11/an-unfortunate-update.html
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *Introduction* on Hunter Holloway's blog; https://hunterhollowaynettlebrook.blogspot.com/2019/07/i-created-this-blog-as-means-to-archive.html
6. ↑ *JUST AS I THOUGHT* on Echo Rose's YouTube channel; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRAK7\_Qg-r0
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *The Bog Days Festival cancelled* on Hunter Holloway's blog; https://hunterhollowaynettlebrook.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-bog-days-festival-cancelled.html