Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Josh Redfern

The 1974 film Where the Redfern Grows follows the physical and emotional growth of a boy and his redbone coonhounds in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma. In the end, the hounds tragically die and everybody in the world cries when a redfern (plant) grows upon their grave site. Cinemagraphically in Hollywood-land, the story needs to end ripping everyone's heart out; reality dictates a different story. The ‘Redfern’ in the title is actually Josh Redfern. In reality, Josh Redfern saved the boy who fell on the hatchet (completing a miraculous field surgery), punched the puma (which killed Old Dan his lead dog) in the face saving the hound and inadvertently saving Little Ann who died of a broken doggie heart. Post his superhuman efforts, Josh Redfern returned to Chadron High and ACED his Vocabulary Unit 1-4 Review Test. BAM-WHAT! Congrats Josh ‘Where the Redfern Grows’...English Geek of the Week.