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Faye Cope was the Springdale Town Clerk when I first moved here and one of the first that I came to know. She was full of life and interesting things. Her home in Virgin was a cornucopia of…
By Dan Mabbutt and Faye Cope · March 3, 2026
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The original “A Modest Proposal” was written by the great satirist Jonathan Swift in 1729. Today, most people only know his most famous story, Gulliver’s Travels, and they don’t even recognize the…
By Dan Mabbutt · February 3, 2026
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Appeal From Your Neighbor
By Dan Mabbutt · September 30, 2025

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Never having read any Fitzgerald, I gave myself a quick biographical tour. His life was a sad Greek tragedy, and a poor introduction to a book that so many have called The Great American Novel. With…
By Dan Mabbutt · September 16, 2025