Bullhead City, Arizona Was a Retiree Paradise. Then Came a Biblical Plague of Flies.
Meet the small, greasy insects upending life in an idyllic community.
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15 min readJun 5, 2019
When Craig Vallon and his wife Denise moved to Bullhead City, Arizona, in 1973, he thought he was the luckiest man in the world. The two had met as teenagers in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Denise was a party…