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 Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: Small American Towns |
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Okay, I'm writing a book and I want to set it in a small town, preferably with a large-ish city nearby, but not totally necessary. I would like it to be a place that has snow in the winter. It also needs to have a high school in it. I did a google search for small towns, but I got a million results of myspace pages, etc. I was going to set it in my town, but then I decided not to. They say to write what you know, but for me, it just feels weird to imagine things going on in the streets I walk down each day. I get my reality and my imaginated stuff mixed up.
Any suggestions? If you could give me the name of a town, what state it's in, and what the name of the high school is, I would be eternally grateful. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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Wow! My area of expertise! I grew up in a small town.
Of course I'm not going to give you MY hometown - but I'll give you one I know of in the same state. There's this little town of Eden, not far away from a big city, in the state of New York. It snows there profusely in the wintertime, and it has a high school. It's a typical small town - country side around it, fields of corn or grapes or some crop, a small center with things like gas stations, corner stores, pizza places, a Subway, a Pet's store... by a lot of beaches, with very quaint signs on the main road. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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Haha, I can name bunhes! Granted, one of them may be the one I live in, I'll never tell you if it is or not. 
These are all in Michigan, so it most definitely snows in the winter.
Apart from Detour, the others are about 45 minutes away from Coldwater, or Adrian, both of which are...cities. I won't say huge, but they've both got at least two malls. I don't know exactly how big you wanted the city to be.
Detour, Michigan. *no where near a big city, so far as I know of*
North Adams, Michigan.
Hillsdale, Michigan.
Jonesville, Michigan.
Reading, Michigan.
All of the high schools are named after this cities, so you have North Adams High School, Hillsdale High School, Jonesville High School, and Reading High School.
I have no idea about Detour, really. I visited up there a few summers ago, and it's really really small. I think their school is actually in another town, but I don't know the name of it.
If you have any questions about the other four cities, I can pretty much answer just about anything, and if I can't I can probably find someone who knows the answer. Just send me a PM. ^.^
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, wow! Do I know about small towns!
Alright, so there are a bunch of places I could name, but here's one:
Strasburg, Pennsylvania. It snows there. Just the normal amount each winter, not many blizzards or anything, though. (by the way, it's in Lancaster a.k.a., Amish Country or county or whatever. There are Amish there.)
It's also about ten or fifteen minutes away from Lancaster City. It's not huge, but it's pretty big.
A few highschools are in the area. There's L-S (Lampeter-Strasburg) High School. That's the most in-county one.
Hope this helped! PM me if you have any other questions, etc.! |
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I went to these places, once a looong time ago.
Fair Oaks, California. Don't know the name of the high school, but its a cool little town. Snows a tiny bit in the winter, but not much, unfortunately. Of course, there are plenty of places within an hour or so where there's lotsa snow.
Crofton, Maryland. Bowie and Annapolis are nearby. Same thing about the high school, though. Snow days aplenty! |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:39 am Post subject: |
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| Why not make one up? If you write about a real one then you have to research all sorts of stuff about it. |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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Or you could base your imaginary small town on a real one...
There's also Maryville, Athens, and Sparta of TN. The last two have interesting names.  Since they're in TN, there aren't many snow days... |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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I can give you a ton of info on small towns.
Small towns aren't "small" because of their size. It's the attitude. I call it "townitude". Take one time I was at Ocean Isle Beach, NC. I saw an ambulence go by...and this is not a joke...the driver was smoking.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, now that I think about it, I agree with what someone above me said. Make up your own town. Think of a clever name for a small town and model it off the typical small town.
Imagination will work in your benefit. |
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Deer Lodge in Montana, Theres many small cities in Montana and about 7-8 big cities. |
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Port Angeles and the City of Forks, WA. Very interesting places.
Big city nearby- Seattle. |
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