TENNESSEE
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The Davidson County Court
House in Nashville, where Steven Gage was tried and sentenced.
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Me with Jimmy Carnahan, a
former city editor at the Nashville Tennessean,
where I--as well as Diane Massey--worked as a reporter
after finishing college. |
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12th
& Porter, the popular Nashville restaurant and
bar. It's here during the 1980s that I first heard Nashville
singer-writer Pat
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MASSACHUSETTS
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Main Street in Northampton, Massachusetts, my inspiration
for the fictional town of Merritt, where Callie and
her daughter Anna live. Northampton is also the subject
of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder's book
Home Town, which provided me with valuable background
material.
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Smith College in Northampton. The campus of Smith,
a prestigious womens' college, was in my mind when I
wrote about fictional Windham College, Callie's alma
mater and employer. Like Callie, I also retired to the
school library basement when I needed to get work done.
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Northampton viewed from Mt. Holyoke, where Callie,
Rick and Anna go hiking. When they look down from this
same spot, they look down on fictional Merritt.
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Photo: Raymond Sebold
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The Guiding
Star Grange in Greenfield, Massachusetts, where Callie
and her friends go contra dancing |
MAINE
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The island of North Haven
viewed from the ferry. North Haven was the inspiration
for fictional Blue Peek Island. The large house to the
left was in my mind when I wrote about Diane Massey's
family summer house. |
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My blue Subaru--remarkably similar to Callie's--waiting
in line for the ferry to North Haven. In the background
the stone building with two chimneys is the real
Old
Granite Inn.
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The North Haven road I had in my mind when describing
the route to fictional Carson's Cove on Blue Peek Island.
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The locale that inspired fictional
Carson's Cove. |
