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PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ARKANSAS SETTING

Although David R. Yale’s anti-porn novel, Saying No to Naked Women, is loosely based on his life, it is a work of fiction. But Yale actually did build a shack out of used shower curtains and old hog-wire fencing in the backwoods of Arkansas, and he did spend a summer living there and researching this novel. Now you can see actual photos of the settings that inspired Saying No to Naked Women, including the waterfall and rock-rimmed pool, the shack where Jack conquered his problems, and Coy Harper’s sawmill. mas1027tofoy&33eh#$675

1. Yellow car loaded for a backwoods summer.
2. Bad spot in county road. Imagine driving over this!
3. Open field Yale camped in, filled with blackberry bushes.
4. Living close to the land: the first camp site.
5. Smallest pup tent in the world?
6. The upper waterfall
7. Rock-rimmed pool where Yale bathed, even in cold fall weather.
8. The framework of the shack, which cost less than Thoreau’s.
9. Yes! He did build the shack from used shower curtains!
10. The side of Yale’s shack, complete with windows.
11. Yale’s shack did have a front door, unlike Jack’s in Saying No to Naked Women.
12. The writing corner inside Yale’s shack.
13. Hay-filled mattress on hand-built slab-wood bunk.
14. Part of the shack’s kitchen area.
15. The inspiration for Wart Hog, Jack Derritt’s truck.
16. Inspiration for Hammer’s Tire & Garage.
17. Old-fashioned sawmill that inspired Coy Harper’s.
18. Log-carrying carriage at the sawmill.
19. Hand-turned drill press inspired Mr. Watkins’ story.
20. Forge like one Jack Derritt used to make shovel in Saying No to Naked Women.

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The yellow car, loaded with everything Yale needed for a backwoods summer.
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Bad spot in the county road.
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The yellow car parked in the open field at the north end of Yale’s property.
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Table at Yale’s first campsite,
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The pup tent Yale lived in while he built the shack.
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The upper waterfall of Yale’s creek, which fed into the rock-rimmed pool.
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The rock-rimmed pool.
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The completed framework of the shack.
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The skin starts going on the shack
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The side of the finished shack.
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The front of the finished shack
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Yale’s writing corner.
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The bunk is behind the 3 fruit crates
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Part of the kitchen area.
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Yale’s pickup, the inspiration for Wart Hog, on the county road, just above the bad spot.
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The inspiration for Hammer’s Tire & Garage.
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Sawmill that inspired Coy Harper’s.
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The log-carrying carriage at the sawmill that inspired Coy Harper’s.
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Hand-turned drill press, still in use in 1974, which inspired the story about Mr. Watkins in Saying No to Naked Women.
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The forge that inspired the story about Mr. Watkins.
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Saying No to Naked Women by David R. Yale
460 pages, ISBN 978-0-9791766-5-4, $19.97 paperback
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