![]() ![]() But beneath the bucolic surface lurk ugly secrets. The fictional town of Peyton Place has shady streets, white church steeples, traditional New England houses and brick mills along the Connecticut River. She began writing Peyton Place at 30, while George taught school in Gilmanton. She graduated from Central High School, married George Metalious at 19, and gave birth to three children. Since her childhood she dreamed of being a writer. Her father, a merchant seaman, left the family when she was 10. 8, 1924, to poor Franco-American parents in Manchester, N.H. ![]() Metalious was born Grace de Repentigny on Sept. The people of Gilmanton felt victimized by Peyton Place, but it was Grace Metalious who was the book’s real victim. “But if you go beneath that picture, it’s like turning over a rock with your foot - all kinds of strange things crawl out.” “To a tourist these towns look as peaceful as a postcard picture,” Metalious once said. She based some of Peyton Place on the town she lived in with her family, Gilmanton, N.H. ![]() ![]() She was a mother of three and, by all accounts, a lousy housewife who drank, swore, wore baggy jeans and cheated on her husband. Its author, Grace Metalious, was a New Hampshire schoolteacher’s wife whose own scandals were anything but secret. Peyton Place became shorthand for secret scandals, mostly involving sex. ![]()
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