March 2010
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That'll be two dollars and fifty cents please
Myla Goldberg is the author of the best-selling novel Bee Season. Her third book, The False Friend, will be published by Doubleday in October.
It’s not unusual for the line to the Birthplace to stretch all the way to the miniature pony farm. Launching a business around here used to mean selling methamphetamine or Amway, but with interest in the Birthplace taking off like it has, all a person has to do to get a bank loan is mention the name of our town. The Nelsons started in with the miniature ponies just this past April, and I hear that the Murch family is thinking about building a water slide, the kind that uses rubber mats. It only stands to reason that once people go to all the trouble to get here, they’re going to want more than one thing to do, the next closest attraction being the two-story outhouse over in Belle Plaine.
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