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Bad Dirt

April 15, 1999July 1, 2021 by Bill Donahue

Gilmanton, New Hampshire, population 3,000, is where novelist Grace Metalious wrote Peyton Place—and also where I spent every summer of my childhood. Local rumor holds that, in fact, Grace did not write the book. 

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Posted in Arts and Letters, Essays, Gilmanton, New England

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