Things Are Afoot!

It’s December 1998 and Templeton, Pennsylvania – the “most isolated town in America” – is celebrating its 100 year anniversary. Founded by a group of trainwreck survivors in an uncharacteristically inhospitable valley, Templeton was built as a sanctuary for weary travelers, a home for outsiders, and an escape from reality. For nearly a century, they’ve managed to stay peaceful, quiet, and disconnected from the outside world. That is, until E. B. Ramone, investigative journalist, crash-lands into their annual Lighter Days celebration. What is a lighthouse doing in central Pennsylvania? Why ban maps and mirrors? And, in a town full of stowaways, what does it really mean to ‘belong’?