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Tonight, we'll read an excerpt from the 1912 book,

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, from a chapter called The Speculations of Jefferson

Thorpe.

You won't need to listen to the first episode in order to listen to this episode as they are non-sequential vignettes.

However, if you would like to find the first episode in this series, it aired on August 23rd, 2019.

This humor is an affectionate account of small town life in the fictional town of Mariposa

is inspired by the author's experience living in Ontario, Canada.

The book illustrates the inner workings of life

in Mariposa, from business to politics to steamboat disasters.

In this vignette, we learn about the town's barber shop

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