((PKG)) CONNECT WITH – DARLENE ELSMORE 
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((Topic Banner:  Connect with – Darlene Elsmore)) 
((Reporter/Camera:  Arturo Martínez)) 
((Locater:  Austin, Nevada)) 
((Main character:  1 female)) 
((Sub character:  1 male))   
((MUSIC/NATS)) 
((Darlene Elsmore, Austin resident)) 
My name is Darlene Elsmore.  I'm currently residing in Austin, 
Nevada, and I wouldn't rather be anywhere else.  
People here are not very open to strangers.  They just, it's hard 
for them, change.  It’s very isolated.  I just drove to Eureka, which 
is 67 miles [107 km.] or so to…. 
I just passed my background check, bought me “The Judge”.  
Love guns.  I go out in the hills with my dog a lot and I don't like 
being unprotected because there are mountain lions.  
I came from Los Angeles.  I grew up there.  And my husband 
brought me to Reno, and I looked at him, I said, “Oh my God, 
where'd you bring me?”   
But my husband passed away and I had three small boys that 
were 11 to 13.  And I moved here, and I was a single mom, 
widowed.  I lived here a year before I even came out of my shell.  
Finally, my son's science teacher said, “It's time for you to get the 
hell out of this situation.  Go to work, get in touch and get real.”  I 
did.   
I worked the pub my first job.  I ran the Lincoln Motel which is 
closed down.  Someone else was running it because I left.  I was 
there for seven years.  I worked the International restaurant, the 
youth center.  I did it all.  And it was, kept me busy, I'll tell you, 
because if I didn't have that, I think I would have gone a little bit 
crazier than I am.  I'm old but mighty.  
I left for five years.  I came back because I have a boyfriend that's 
doing the geothermal and it was a chance for me to reconnect.  
And what I'm seeing now, a lot of the businesses have closed 
down.  It’s kind of like a living ghost town.  
It seemed to slow down more when the young people left, so.  But 
it's a good place to raise a puppy, a dog and a boyfriend.  
((Darlene Elsmore’s Boyfriend)) 
Got a cigar?  
((Darlene Elsmore, Austin Resident)) 
This is my hillbilly buddy.  
This is an awesome place to live if you know how to live the slow 
pace of this town.  I've connected more here than I ever did 
anywhere else.  
((NATS/MUSIC))