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Joplin Hollow

November 5, 2025April 18, 2012 by Alan Farley

As a kid growing up in a valley full of chemical plants and related industries, one would think that my young life would be centered on neighborhood, factory-town stuff. Not so, at least not very much. In spite of all those factories, our neighborhood was about a mile away from real woods. And through those … Read more

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