Yes, the Dillards do sing a song about Shady Grove--and it's a g-o-o-d one! But I want to point out that the community of Shady Grove, Mississippi, does indeed exist and everything I wrote about it is the truth. It's between the towns of Mize and Magee, or about 50 miles north of Hattiesburg, 50 south of Jackson. And it is a tiny place. One store, two churches. But who needs anything more than that? There is a family with the phone on a pole who will sit in a rusted car on rainy days and the Smith Brothers and their sister Florence really existed as I wrote about. Many people have said that Shady Grove is almost exactly like Green Acres, but how the Green Acres people found out about such a small place in the middle of nowhere Mississippi, I don't know. So, the resemblance between my Shady Grove and Green Acres remains a mystery and a coincidence. I just live there and I love it and its people. I wish you all could visit it. You would not believe such a place can still exist. Lydia over at the Dime Store with Laura Lee Hobbs, "Everybody knows about the Mindlebright Sisters..."
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