+Bet You Didn't Know+

Here are some not so well-known (and some, known) facts about the
residents of
Mineral Town: WARNINGS: Spoilers ahead!

- Ann's mom died on the fifth of Fall. Try going in Doug's inn on this
day
and he won't be available 'coz he's sulking off on the peak of
Mother's Hill.
- Gotz once had a wife and a daughter who died in the mountains. That's
why he
takes it upon himself to make patrols. Maybe that's also why he can be
grumpy.
- Aja, Manna and Duke's daughter, from whom the winery was named after,
ran off after an argument with her father because of his alcoholism.
Duke calls her long-distance a lot.
- Barley's daughter, Joanna, left May with him. She has yet to return.
Barley
often asks her to come back for May but she wouldn't, saying she's too
busy.
What a bitch...
- Zack is in love with Lillia! You see, Rod, Lillia's husband, found
Zack in
one of his trips and gave him a job at Mineral Town as a shipper. He
fell in
love with Lillia but his loyalty to Rod stopped him from doing
anything about
it. See his house and investigate the photos by the bed.
- A man named Louis once lived in Gotz's house. Gotz says he's a bug-
collector
or something. Louis can be found in the playstation game, Harvest
Moon: Back
to Nature and in Gamecube, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life.
- The doctor once rebelled against his parents because they never gave
him
enough time. His mom was a nurse and his dad was a doctor. Now that he
was a
doctor himself, he understood why they were so busy.
- The doctor's name, as far as I've heard, is Tim.
- The doctor and Harris grew up together and are actually good friends
though
we never get to see them talk to each other or anything.
- As kids, Duke used to bully Jeff a lot. He would hide behind Sasha and
Sasha
would be the one to protect him (who wears the pants in the family
now?).
- Rod, Lillia's husband, has been searching for a permanent cure for his
wife's
illness by going off to the desert. He hasn't returned yet but he
often
writes to Lillia.
- Elli & Stu's grandpa, Ellen's husband, was a very shy man. So shy in
fact,
that he hides his love letters in places that would take years to find
and
even in it, it's clear that he's embarrassed.
- Saibara is in love with Ellen! LOL! He visits her at times.
- Saibara, Ellen and Barley, the three elderlies of the town, grew up
together.
- Cliff left his hometown to strike it on his own. When he came back,
his
mother had died and his sister has gone off somewhere. Mineral Town
reminds
him of his old town just as Ann reminds him of his sister.
- Harris, Mayor Thomas's son, is in love with Aja, Duke and Manna's
daughter.
Too bad she now lives in the city.