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ellerslie
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The tag 'ellerslie' on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about the historic Ellerslie estate in Delaware, particularly its association with F. Scott Fitzgerald and a 1928 incident involving an accidental firearm discharge during a weekend party. Threads explore the reliability of eyewitness accounts, contemporary reporting, and later recollections, including those from Thornton Wilder's sister. The content focuses on historical memory, literary figures, and factual verification of events from the 1920s.
A weekend party, a shaken nephew, and a sister’s solemn recollection: the question of whether F. Scott Fitzgerald once “pulled a gun” on Thornton Wilder is less a single, provable incident than a tangle of eyewitness memory, contemporary reporting, and later retellings — anchored, however, by a...