
Quirky Elmwood Springs residents navigate decades of small-town Missouri life with humor, heart, and neighborly charm from 1946 on.
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Quirky Elmwood Springs residents navigate decades of small-town Missouri life with humor, heart, and neighborly charm from 1946 on.
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the...
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Romantic entanglements and attraction; mild sensual tone around a charismatic figure
No violence or gore depicted
Occasional mild language consistent with everyday small-town dialogue
Social drinking mentioned in ordinary community life
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Gospel singers and church-centered small-town faith life recur
No magic or witchcraft present
No occult or demonology content present
Postwar social change and a character’s political rise as backdrop
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Quiet heartbreak, hard luck, and life’s ordinary hardships
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