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Mariposa was intended to be a composite sketch of Anywhere Small Town, Canada. I’m curious if people envisioned any specific places while reading. I kept imagining a place like Lake Tahoe and the towns around it such as Truckee, California. I’ve read some historical books and memoirs from settlers in the area and visited there too. It has mountains, mining, logging, train station leading to larger cities, boat excursions, etc.
I also kept imagining the set of the CBC TV series Murdoch Mysteries. It is based in Toronto in this same early 1900s time-period and addresses similar issues of technology, society and politics and also relations between Canada and the US. Sometimes their cases take them on the train into smaller towns. So I had their costumes and the set design of buildings and places in my head for what Mariposa would have looked like and how the people would have interacted.
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