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Chapter Six. The Popcorn. The Movie. The Idea. We bought the largest Diet Coke and bucket of popcorn we could buy. Sat near the front. It was fun to watch this movie in the town where it was filmed. You could hear farmers in overalls saying "Hey, there's Ben's dog!" Janice liked the movie. She cried. A lot.
As we filed out of the movie theater, we stopped to take one last restroom break before hitting the road to my mother's. We walked out into a nice Iowa summer night. Holding hands. Epilogue I. As we drove away from Winterset, Janice pointed out how we'd actually visited more bathrooms than bridges in Madison County. "Hey," she said, "that would make a cool book...." or website. Epilogue II. This website, The Bathrooms of Madison County, was launched on February 14, 1996. It won numerous awards and recognitions during the early days of the world wide web. Epilogue III. Janice Putman and Allen Bukoff were married on February 4, 1998, and are living happily ever after with a house full of cats in The end.
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Filmed entirely on location in Madison County, Iowa. All photographs and text by Allen Bukoff and Janice Putman. Contact us at allen & janice |
| Honored, proud, thrilled, and flattered to be | ||
 Netscape Gold Rush Contest Web Design Honorable Mention May 7, 1996 |
Site du Jour of the Day May 27, 1997 |
 Cool Site of the Hour |
| as well as having received many other now-defunct awards & recognitions | ||
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Allen Bukoff, PhD 2021