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	North Carolina Fiction -- Authors
		Lucas Proudy is a weatherman in the fictional coastal town of Bentleyville.
		When Noah arrived in the fictional town of Bowersville, N.C. (based on the area around Hayesville), in an area known as the "Valley of Light," he was taken by the slow small-town pace and friendly residents.
		The old red church in Whispering Pines, N.C., a fictional town in the Appalachian mountains, has stood empty for twenty years, said to be haunted by the ghost of the preacher who was hung from its rafters by his own angry congregation.
	www.lib.unc.edu /ncc/ref/fic/authors.html (12634 words)

	Fiction Subject - BANH
		Set in the fictional town of Lawford, N.H., this novel tells the story of a part-time policeman who goes on a rampage & his brother's struggle to understand the reasons behind his actions.
		Set in the fictional town of Hyland, N.H., this novel tells the story of the bludgeoning to death of a pregnant teenage girl by her 17-year-old boyfriend, & the effect of this act on the boy's family & the community.
		A novel set in a small New Hampshire town concerns the conflict between two men - a lusty, reckless young logger, and the prudent, tight-fisted son of the town's richest man - both of whom fall in love with the same girl.
	www.nh.gov /nhsl/nhbooks/fiction.html (3242 words)

	Odyssey (fictional town) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is located in Campbell County, a fictionalized county bearing no known connection to any of the five counties bearing that name in the United States.
		The land was located in the Weyakatal-ah-Neetee Valley, which, when translated from a fictional Native American language, means "Valley of the land that stinks like a swamp." In reality, the valley was not a swamp, but simply suffered from poor drainage during the rainy season.
		Though the town has been referenced as being in the midwest and confirmed to be in Ohio by the original Family Portraits series, the radio station operating within Whit's End is given the call letters KYDS.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Odyssey_(fictional_town) (542 words)

	Significant Learning (University of Oklahoma)
		Students populated the town's businesses and homes with characters of their own creation that interacted with one another in different scenes.
		The fictional town framework prompted students to rely less on other authors for inspiration, and to focus less on perfecting a particular genre of fiction, such as romance, drama or horror.
		Students created a network of interacting fictional individuals and learned to rely on each other, as a classroom community, to create a fully functioning, fictional town.
	www.ou.edu /idp/significant/hum3.htm (494 words)

	Roslyn - Washington Ghost Town
		Roslyn was where ALL the TV episodes of Northern Exposure were filmed and Roslyn was portrayed as the fictional town of Cisily Alaska.
		A rather dainty name for a coal mining town but Roslyn was the name chosen by a Logan M. Gullitt who platted it and named it after a sweetheart in a Delaware town of that name.
		All this forced the town bosses to allow legitimate activities within town limits where they could be regulated.
	www.ghosttowns.com /states/wa/roslyn.html (204 words)

	G.G. MARQUEZ
		Like many of his works, it is set in the fictional town of Macondo, a place much like Garcia Marquez's native Aracataca.
		The story covers the 100 years between the founding of the town and its destruction by a hurricane, thus beginning in Eden and ending in apocalypse.
		Part three chronicles the destruction of the family and the town, presaged by the birth of the dreaded pig-tailed baby.
	home1.gte.net /gomezedg/marquez.htm (761 words)

	Fictional city - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Start the Fictional city article or add a request for it.
		Look for "Fictional city" in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project.
		Look for "Fictional city" in the Wikimedia Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fictional_city (123 words)

	Our Land, Our Literature: Literature - William H. Gass
		It is apparent that this small town is not out of reach from the air pollution resulting from industrialization.
		He then points out, however, that the farmers in the country use their chemicals and machines for agriculture, which is also a form of pollution.
		Gass is referring to a fictional town in this short story, but at the same time he is referring to all towns in Indiana.
	www.bsu.edu /ourlandourlit/Literature/Authors/GassWH.html (764 words)

	hol.istic.net - TFTOPW
		In the fictional town of Bedford Falls, it was Christmas Eve.
		In fact, in the fictional town of Bedford Falls, it was always Christmas Eve.
		Paddock Wood is the town in which I passed my reasonably miserable existance for the first eighteen or so years of my life, Before I got a girlfriend a social life and a house in Cambridge and then proceeded to lose them in reverse order.
	hol.istic.net /TFTOPW (277 words)

	RMcG Creative COMICS Page
		Beech Town is a light-hearted look at life in an almost-fictional resort town somewhere on the Atlantic Coast of Florida, East of Orlando, south of Daytona Beach, a scallop's throw from the Kennedy Space Center...but otherwise, it is a totally made up place.
		His beautiful surf-chick girlfriend has her eyes on movie-stardom to take her out of this one seashorse town, and keeps a constant watch for celebrities enjoying the local scene.
		Buzz is a retired astronaut living in Beech Town while he researches his autobiography and writes pulp science-fiction.
	www.rmcgcreative.com /comics/beecht/beechtown.htm (688 words)

	Final Curriculum Unit (Title Not in all Caps)
		Using the fictional characters as a background, the students will learn about various environmental problems that have occurred in their town and what solutions would be needed to solve these problems.
		Since the town was built next to the rivers, it was a simple task to dump all raw sewage into the river, with the understanding that the natural cleansing of the river would treat the waste.
		Members of the town council had to decide what method would be the least expensive and still meet the water demands of the town’s population.
	www.chatham.edu /PTI/Pgh_Env_History/Vogel_01.htm (7140 words)

	SparkNotes: Our Town: Plot Overview
		Our Town is introduced and narrated by the Stage Manager, who welcomes the audience to the fictional town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, early on a May morning in 1901.
		In the opening scene, the stage is largely empty, except for some tables and chairs that represent the homes of the Gibbs and Webb families, the setting of most of the action in Act I. The set remains sparse throughout the rest of the play.
		Now evening, a choir in the orchestra pit begins to sing “Blessed Be the Tie That Binds.” The choir, directed by the bitter yet comical choirmaster Simon Stimson, continues to sing as George and Emily talk to each other through their open windows.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/ourtown/summary.html (980 words)

	Town of Berlin, Maryland
		The town grew and became a popular spot for tourists who enjoyed hunting and fishing on the Eastern Shore or were on their way to the small coastal town of Ocean City.
		Today the town is a wonderful example of what can be done when citizens work together for the success of their community.
		The renovation of the town center and the historic preservation of the commercial and residential districts are a result of the cooperative efforts of local citizens, businesses and the Town government.
	www.berlin.sailorsite.net (502 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Learning Resources \| Book and Film Club
		Our Town, by Thornton Wilder, tells the story of a small, fictional town, Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, during the first few years of the twentieth century.
		Act I paints a picture of the inhabitants of this ordinary town -- the milkman, the town doctor, and young George and Emily, who live next door to each other.
		Our Town lends itself to debates about what is valuable in life, the "something that is eternal" in all of us, and the ways that human beings relate to one another.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/learningresources/bfc_ourtown.html (1094 words)

	TED Case Study Template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		WE-Town is about World Education and a community of potential teachers and courses.
		Her novel tells the story of the fictional Trueba family; and although the novel spans several generations, its focus is the rise and fall of the Allende administration and the terror of the military dictatorship that followed.
		The novel follows 100 years of life in the fictional town of Macondo, where the Buendia family observe and react to the political and social evolution of their country.
	www.american.edu /ted/etown/distance/latinamericanliterature.htm (2886 words)

	Gary Reed's Cricus of Dr. Lao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Circus of Dr. Lao is a 1935 novel set in the fictional town and mercilessly satirizes the mindset of ordinary Americans when confronted by examples of differences amongst people.
		Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depression.
		The circus unfolds, spinning magical, dark strands that ensnare the town's populace: the sea serpent's tale shatters love's illusions; the fortune-teller's shocking pronouncements toll the tedium and secret dread of every person's life; sensual undercurrents pour forth for men and women alike; and the dead walk again.
	www.transfuzion.biz /GRcircusLao.htm (459 words)

	Thomas Hardy Geography quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Casterbridge is a fictional town that appears in "The Mayor of Casterbridge" and also in "Far From the Madding Crowd".
		The Third Earl of this town was an English philosopher.
		This town is a major Channel resort in Hampshire, where the Avon empties into the Channel, next to Christchurch.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=229879 (420 words)

	North Carolina Fiction -- Mountain Region
		But the deeper she gets into the case, she becomes worried that the true killer might be the very man she was hired to protect.
		Chappell is an award-winning poet and is noted for the lyricism he brings to his prose.
		Set in the fictional mountain town of Faith, N.C. at the turn of the century, Salt is the story of Anna Stockton, an independent young woman who dreams of a better life away from home, and her unlikely husband, John Bayley, an older man consumed by status and greed.
	www.lib.unc.edu /ncc/ref/fic/mount.html (4332 words)

	Louis de Rochemont -- Lost Boundaries
		The film opens dramatically with snowy shots of the fictional town of Keenham, NH in the late 1940s.
		The narrator notes that the town of Keenham was leery of the inexperienced doctor.
		Her boyfriend is not upset and fears, rather, that Shelly may leave town or not attend the school dance with him.
	www.seacoastnh.com /louis/lostsum.html (1652 words)

	SparkNotes: Our Town: Context
		Thornton Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1897.
		Wilder does not deny the fact that the town suffers from social injustice and hypocrisy, and he does not intend to idealize Grover’s Corners as a bastion of uncompromising brotherly love.
		Our Town directed attention away from these negative aspects of life in the late 1930s and focused instead on the aspects of the human experience that make life precious.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/ourtown/context.html (687 words)

	Plainsong: Wordiness makes novel just plain boring
		Set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado, Plainsong follows a group of characters through different daily situations in an attempt to show the complexities and beauty contained within the apparent simplicity of small town life.
		This would be the case if it were not for the intrusions of the stereotypical, though not necessarily true or universal, small town prejudices and attitudes that occur.
		Throughout the novel the female humans and female cattle are united, both sharing the experience of being dominated and the purpose of bearing and then caring for offspring.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/buzz/stories/20000928/buzz3.html (449 words)

	Plan of Agatha Christie's Village of St Mary Mead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The seaside resort town of Danemouth is twenty miles southeast of the village.
		The actual towns of Bournemouth, Portsmouth, and Alton appeared in the story narratives and it has been surmised that the fictional town of Market Basing is the actual town of Baskingstoke.
		Additionally, the fictional town of Danemouth is the actual coastal resort town of Bournemouth which meets the criterion of being about twenty-five or so miles distant from the town of Portsmouth also on the sea coast.
	herbertholeman.com /Agatha/mead.php (1126 words)

	Our Town USA
		Wilder was the author of "Our Town," a play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 as the best play of the year.
		The play revolved around the simple, everyday life of people in the fictional town of Grover's Corner, New Hampshire.
		It's the home of a famous person, a soldier, a politician, a movie star, a music star, etc. Or its fame might come from a local festival celebrated each year.
	www.festivalusa.com /ourtown-usa (221 words)

	Black & white documentary (05/08/97, The N&O)
		Canton served as the filming site for the fictional town of Clanton, the setting of "A Time to Kill," the John Grisham novel-turned-blockbuster about the animosities resulting from the trial of a fl man who kills the white men who raped his young daughter.
		In 1994, while she was still a student at Duke, she received news from her parents that the town could elect its first fl mayor, who was running against a white opponent.
		They decided to tell the town's story, the story of how a town can seem to forget that the same tensions they are playacting had been all too real just one year before.
	www.duke.edu /~aar1/direct.htm (1171 words)

	Nancy-in-U.S.
		There are many instances where Nancy visits a specific state, but the name of the town where the action occurs is fictional (changed to protect the innocent?), perhaps reflecting a typical or composite community of real towns in the area.
		Cherry Creek (fictional town in Marin County) - #104 The Mystery of the Jade Tiger
		Dover (fictitonal town on the coast) - #92 The Ghost of Craven Cove
	www.nancydrewworld.com /nancyus.html (1208 words)

	Narrative Game Concept
		The game takes place in a fictional town in a modern/contemporary time period.
		Another level of challenge might be added to the game for the player striving for the good ending by keeping more actors active in the town at the same time.
		The town is the only location available to the player and the player can freely move their overhead view of the town to focus on any particular section.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~donlind/concept.htm (3112 words)

	Welcome To Perspectives
		Set in the early 20th Century, Our Town follows the lives, loves and losses of two families in the fictional town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire.
		As the Stage Manager explains, the play shows us “the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.” It is simple, yet profound – a must-see for families and school groups.
		Under the poignant direction of Lauren Caldwell, the fictional town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire is populated by many local actors.
	thehipp.org /perspectives/04_05/our_town/welcome.htm (635 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Town would take page from native son's book
		Macondo is the fictional town his masterwork made famous.
		To reverse a half-century of economic decline, town leaders hope to cash in on their favorite son's fame by changing the town's name to "Aracataca-Macondo."
		His plan has jolted the sleepy town of 53,000, where just as in García Márquez's literary universe, people still sleep off the midday swelter in hammocks on their porches.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002737088_ggm13.html (516 words)

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