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Springfield Unearths Lost Town in Odd Banquet Tale
An annual junior senior banquet tale spills into a fantasy dig where a buried city rises. A mayor Ray Sissom image is found with tax records for a goat farm zebra zoo and charges against Jimmy Wells and others. The scene blends satire and local lore with names like Georgia Owen Charles Coppock and Marilyn Glenn.
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Springfield
Rome
Ray Sissom
Lynda Taylor
Sissom
Georgia Owen
Zoo
Monkey House
Charles Coppock
Helways
Jimmy Wells
Jimmy
Mert’s
Marilyn Glenn
Mert
Jeanna Denman
Salvation Army
Jeanna