Stranger than Fiction
Dec 1, 2007
IT’S A CASE OF LIFE IMITATING ART. Back in the 1960s, editorial cartoonist Yardley Jones fell so in love with the village of New Sarepta that he often made reference to it in his work.
Sometimes the village’s name would appear on a highway sign. On many occasions, Jones’s politicos and royals found themselves standing beside the New Sarepta Tire and Girdle Company. But no such business existed. It was fictional until the mid-’80s. That’s when village councillors decided to build the Tire and Girdle Company. Don’t expect to buy tires or supportive garments inside, though. The store houses only a small collection of girdle memorabilia. New Sarepta is also known as the Cartooning Capital of Canada.
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