Small Town Mysteries




I grew up in Los Angeles, also lived in Norfolk VA and Oxnard CA. Moving to the small foothill community of Springville was a new experience in many ways.

Though my great-great and great grandparents were pioneers to the area, having land grants of 6400 acres, it had been far too long ago for anyone to count us as old-timers. I knew the history of the family coming to Springville well and even wrote an historical family saga about them, Two Ways West.

Though the area is beautiful there are some inconveniences. To do any big shopping and to find many things we need, we must drive 17 miles to the next city (also small compared to what I was used to.) 

In Springville right now we have a K through 8th grade school, post office,fire station, the Springville Inn (which has new owners and a new name), a grocery store/gas station, two Mexican restaurants, a cafe, coffee shop, hamburger stand, fabric store, and other businesses, a huge place that was once a TB hospital but is now low-income housing, and 7 churches (only two open now because of the pandemic.)

One of the reasons I chose not to have my fictional town of Bear Creek be exactly like Springville is because over the years we've had so many businesses come and go. In Bear Creek, the businesses stay the same. I've rearranged some places to work for different plots, and moved the whole town to the elevation of 2,000 feet in order to have different kinds of trees and more interesting weather.

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Marilyn 

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