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What do author Adriana Trigani and bookseller Wendy Welch have in common? Their town. A movie is currently in production based on Trigani's novel Big Stone Gap. It is set in the town that also happens to be home to Tales of the Lonesome Pine Bookshop, which did a star turn of its own in co-owner Wendy Welch's book, The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book.
Star-gazing is well underway in the town, where recent sightings have included Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg and Jenna Elfman, the Roanoke Times reported, noting that "of all the big names roaming around Big Stone Gap these days, none draws forth more local appreciation than Trigiani, the hometown girl who moved to New York and made it big but held off making her movie for more than a decade until she found just the right deal to do what she really wanted to do all along: make the movie about Big Stone Gap in Big Stone Gap."
Welch's bookstore and cafe have been "a destination for some of the movie folk, including Elfman, who plays Iva Lou, the bookmobile librarian, in the movie."