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    GREETINGS FROM-SMALL-TOWN AMERICA MONROEVILLE ALABAMA

    May 27, 2022 2 minutes
    By GINGER RUE, Contributing Editor

    ’ve lived in Alabama and loved books my entire life. As an English teacher, I showed my students the joys of literature, including by Alabama’s own Harper Lee. Somehow, though, I’d never visited Lee’s hometown of Monroeville (population: 5,900), known as the state’s literary

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