The facility is used to portray what the firm thinks life might be like five to 10 years in the future.

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The law restricted native Irish filmmakers who wanted to wholly portray everyday life in Ireland on an international stage, wrote Roderick Flynn and Patrick Brereton in the Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema.

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Extrapolating from the area's limited renown for an overabundance of gophers, whose destructive burrowing has always brought armed retaliation from local farmers, the museum used stuffed gophers to portray daily life in Torrington.

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