The Secrets of Norbury
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Last published Wed, Jan 17, 2018
In the hills of Kentucky, a young city woman travels to the town called Norbury to write the next Great American Novel. There, she finds streams streaked with coal and hills damaged by machines, but she also finds a peculiar family settled inside a house full of mysterious items and past relics of what happened to this once great town.
The Norbury family consists of 6 members and they have a motto about their town. "It's like we are captains of a vast ship called, "Norbury." We won't be leavin' our town. Our family built it and we'll be destroyed with it. We aren't leaving. Not even if it kills us."
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