Dispatches from Turnipville

Messages from the colorful characters who live in this small, magical village

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Exterior Scene: Town elder's patio, a television news reporter is interviewing Turnipville town elder Tom Francesco age: 103

Reporter: Please stop me if I get something wrong. Turnipville is a small community of about 1200 inhabitants, located in the mountains of Western Massachusetts. This village is nearly 500 years old. In Turnipville there is no crime, no homelessness, no opioid crisis, no jail, no banks, no insurance companies, no lawyers, no apparent modern day town government, no police, or taxes. Now, sir, I see no New England white churches, no synagogues, no mosques...don't you people believe in anything?

Tom Francesco: (Brief pause) Does love count?

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