Moderator---Dee Dee
Elmwood Springs, Missouri is the home town to many of Fannie Flagg characters in previous novels. But how did it begin? This prequel takes you back to the very beginning and the town's founder, Lordor Nordstrom and his mail-order bride, Katrina Olsen. You watch how a town is formed based on needs and a catalog selling such things as prefab buildings like a church, store, meeting hall etc. Then you advertise for a doctor, dentist, storekeeper and preacher. And it works. Though Lordor Nordstrom planned for the needs of the living, he also thought ahead and set aside land for a cemetery, Still Meadows.
If you are familiar with Fannie Flagg books, you will recognize many of the characters including Neighbor Dorothy, Gene Nordstrom and his daughter Dena, Elner Shimfissle, Macky and Norma Warren, Tot Whooten, Luther Griggs and even WWII female pilot, Fritzi Jurdabralinski.
We watch the town grow and thrive. Lordor Nordstrom's Sweet Clover Dairy is the most successful business in the area. And Still Meadows starts to get residents too. And here's the twist. They are as talkative below the ground as they were above it. This is an American story about the rise, heyday, and decline of a town. This story has taken place all over the country. Maybe you will recognize it in your own community.
Elmwood Springs menu:
Ham sandwiches in honor of
Sweet Potato Pig, cheeses from
Sweet Clover Dairy (with crackers)
and Edna Childress's apple pie.
"Visiting a cemetery will never feel the same
way it used to!" ---Dee Dee
"The evolution of a small community and
it's memorable characters."---Kim
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