Welcome To Nowhere Official Minutes From A Town That Does Not Exist A Literary Satire Small Town Fiction: A Dry Humor Town Meeting Comedy Novel($12.99Value)

Description

When the State of Oregon removes Mill Crossing from its records, the residents do what any reasonable community would do: they schedule a meeting. The mail comes back stamped NO SUCH MUNICIPALITY. The property taxes are refunded. The maps go blank. The census worker arrives, counts six people, and explains that he cannot record them. The insurance company questions whether their houses are where they say they are. The power company raises their rates. A neighboring town offers to absorb them. Through all of it, the six members of the Mill Crossing town council meet every Tuesday evening in a community hall with folding chairs and a crock pot that makes terrible coffee, and they follow procedure. Harold Finch, town clerk, has not missed a meeting in eleven years. He records every motion, every vote, every objection. He records the pothole on Cedar Street and the sign the highway department removes and the can of creamed corn that somehow becomes a permanent fixture. He records what is said and what is not said and the slow, quiet thinning of attendance from six to five to four to three to two to one. Welcome to Nowhere is the official record of a town that refused to stop holding meetings after the rest of the world stopped acknowledging it existed. It is a story about bureaucracy and stubbornness and the particular courage of people who believe that showing up is its own proof. It is very dry. It is very funny. It will break your heart. There are procedures for this sort of thing. The residents of Nowhere intend to follow them.