Tag: valley
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Saturday Night Original: Joyland
My novel features a frontier city called “Joyland” that is inspired by, in unequal parts, nascent Las Vegas, Bogart’s Casablanca, Deadwood South Dakota, and just about every “Little America” truckstop along the highways of America–but the name came from a ramshackle little roadhouse in the blink-and-you-miss-it town of Cramer, PA just north of Johnstown near…
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Honeymoon 1995
The only picture we took on our honeymoon–the camera is tied to a tree branch. Strange word, isn’t it: honeymoon?