From Gimlet, this is Replyall, I'm PJ vote.

So there's this tiny town in Wisconsin called Mount Pleasant.

Populations, just 26,000 people technically it's a village, and life in Mount Pleasant

is usually as quiet as you'd expect.

There's a suburb of Racine, home of Maltese Milk, and the site of some of America's largest

cabbage farms.

But that's the city.

Mount Pleasant's the suburb, place where nothing really happens.

Until last year, when the village became the site of a completely unprecedented, massive

international experiment, Shruthi Pym and Aeneet's going to tell the story.

This fall, I went to Mount Pleasant to meet this woman named Kelly Gallagher.

Hi, Kelly.

Hi, come on in.

She lives in this Ivy covered split-level house.

My home is located about a little bit over a mile from like Michigan, so I just saw it.

Did you see the view?

But it's really beautiful out here by Racine.

It has like a very light blue.

Almost there's like a Caribbean vibe to it.

Well, it's all about the light.

I think it's magical.

I think I even like how the lake looks on my GPS.

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