mid to large back yard. yes, they were married. in deed, the neighbors could see, the clothes line was right in the middle of the yard, lot's of sun shining thru.It might be that they never officially got married.
I don't know how big their backyard was, but am not sure the neighbours could see their laundry. But yea that is gross.
Mmm small towns are gossipy.
I can't really imagine being the 'talk of the town ' but if you ever get on the front page of the newspaper then you going to be talked about, nowadays, people do it for free and faster on Facebook.