Since 2001, it's been home to the nonprofit Jacob Burns Film Center, which now has five theaters, and hosts discussions with writers such as Stephen King. In May, the Gordon Parks Foundation opened an historic photo studio. Parks' stunning photos of segregation in Alabama appeared in Life magazine in 1956. I enjoy not just Pleasantville's name, but its cultural institutions, impressive in a village with just 7,000 residents. I've never been much of a Digest reader, but I enjoy Doig's references to Pleasantville. She says, "He knew it was a different product from the full-length novel, and that was OK with him." But his widow says he was "plumb happy" in 2007, when the Digest condensed Doig's novel, “The Whistling Season,” about a one-room school house in the early 1900s. By high school, Doig had moved from condensed books to the real thing.
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