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Everyday life, love, and death in a small New Hampshire town- those are the main themes in Our Town, the classic play by Thornton Wilder. Our Town takes place in Grover's Corners, a town believed to be modeled after Peterborough. Wilder was a fellow at the McDowell Colony in Peterborough several times. There is a new production of Our Town on Broadway and on PBS starring Paul Newman and new editions of all of Wilder's novels and plays are being released by Perennial Classics. We talk with Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder's nephew and literary executor, about the enduring play and the man behind it.