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There was a cavernous Gainesville bar called Dub’s, and the group played there nightly for weeks on end, occasionally throwing in one of Petty’s chiming, Byrds-inflected originals.

Then, in July, just 17 months into his contract at the Gainesville university, Dr. Sasse resigned, sparking a host of questions about what went wrong.

"We opened up with about 100 or so. It took a good hour and a half or so to slow down," Wes Daniel, the precinct manager at Chicopee Baptist Church near Gainesville, told WDUN.

She was from Gainesville and she would always make fried chicken on Sundays.

Groff and her husband, Clay Kallman, had toyed with the idea of opening a bookstore in Gainesville for more than a decade, but the timing never felt right.