From the time of its founding by Horace K. Line in 1802, the community of Kleinvue has been both blessed and bedeviled by its location. Situated along the banks of the lovely Slocum Creek in the center of rich agricultural land, the town has prospered. But located at the northern edge of Wimple County, by and large populated by kind, sharing, thoughtful people such as ourselves, it has also felt the influences of the policies of neighboring Sleazton County just to the north, famous for its skullduggery, graft, corruption, economic exploitation, and opportunism. The competition and conflict across the boundary has been a fact of life since 1805, when Jacques "Napoleon" Dupree, self-styled royalist exile, established the village of New Paris on the northern side of Slocum Creek.
Rather than becoming a mirror of its slightly older rival, however, New Paris became particularly associated with a number of services not provided for in Kleinvue, and the term "going to see a Parisian" has meant many things over the years, none of them particularly appealing to the Kleinvue constabulary or the Wimple County sheriff.

Much of the development north of the river has followed this pattern of searching for the 'fast buck' from the wealthy, gullible population to the south. Examples are spread across the landscape, such as the all but abandoned Perpetual Care cemetery, or the currently seamy "Dew Drop Inn," a road house on Route 421. A billboard in front of the cemetery which recently read "Real Men Don't Need the Dew Drop" has been torched. But perhaps the most devastating travesty of town planning was the gas manufacturing plant constructed on the remains of the old Dupree Estate, now itself in ruins. This plant, established to provide gas for the town in the late nineteenth century, exploded soon after its construction, killing many, leaving hundreds of local bondholders penniless, and demolishing much of the eastern part of Kleinvue, although fortuitously providing a site for the new school (1908 plus subsequent additions) and the easy development of East Park. Although this catastrophe now seems very much in the past and has become part of the town folklore (the high school teams are known as "The Boomers" and the anniversary of the explosion is celebrated with fireworks and a parade which winds its way from East Park to the town square at which point a newly crowned "Miss Hap" is ceremoniously hoisted to the top of the War Memorial Column), unbeknownst to the townspeople, deadly carcinogens from the abandoned plant site have seeped into the town water supply (also located north of the county line and owned by the Dupree heirs), causing the town to produce an extraordinarily high percentage of orphaned children.

The Dupree family has magnanimously donated a parcel of land across Slocum Creek to the north of town for the site of an orphanage which will be managed by an indirect Dupree descendent, Sonny Sharsky, and his management company, SHARSKYCO. Mr. Sharsky operates in many locations in which the Dupree family is an active member of the business community. They are still very active in Ohio, especially residential development and inexpensively operated toxic land fills. Mr. Sharsky has prepared a program for the architect.

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