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They’re our eccentrics so we let them be

Essay by Penelope Reedy

Rural life – September 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine

Eccentrics. Every community has them, but out West they seem to take on a unique aura.

Take the Babbington twins, two nearly identical men who lived on a farm on the west end of Camas Prairie, Camas County, Idaho, in the early to mid-part of the 20th century. They did everything together, including dying together in a house fire.