Several years ago, an author from our town — an excellent writer, a writer who’s critically-acclaimed and commercially successful — wrote a book that was so riveting, they decided to turn it into a movie. And when they were looking for a place to film that movie, they settled on filming in the author’s hometown.
This place. This … wild and unforgiving place.
There isn’t much scenery around here — which is kind of the point of making a movie here. Sad story turned into a sad movie set in a sad town. The movie is …
Well, it’s not bleak. It’s not Winter’s Bone. But it’s supposed to be emotional, not sensual, sexual, or conceptual. Emotional.
There’s only room for one -al in this town, baby!
This town, it’s not in the mountains or by the water. There is a creek, but the only people I’ve seen in the creek are vagrants, to use an all-encompassing and decidedly more quaint term.
But … yeah. That’s all there is to say about that. A less-than-remarkable town, which served as the setting for a novel and a movie.
That’s pretty kind of cool, right?
And now, in 2023, it’s inspired a blog. Welcome to the digital age, Mayville! Our town is a microcosm, but the web is world wide!
Jamais Mayville 