Culm Rock

Culm rock was a wild place. You might search the coast for miles and not find another bit of nature so bare and rent and ragged as this. So fiercely had the storms driven over it, so wildly had the wind and waves beat, that the few cedars which once flourished as its only bit of greenness were long ago dead, and now held up only bleached and ragged hands. Jutting out into the sea, the surf rolled and thundered along its jagged shore of rock and sand, and was never silent. 

Warren Ives Bradley was an American children's author who wrote as Glance Gaylord. He was born in Bristol, Connecticut, and died there aged 21. Despite his early death, he had written fifteen books, and numerous articles for papers and magazines. His papers are at the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale.