A Mule A Cow and 5 Jugs of Shine

Based on the real-life journey of Minnie Leigh Robertson as she is forced to take a path that turns her world upside down. In the East Tennessee Mountains 1926 at the age of thirteen living a very simple content life Minnie never dreamed of living anywhere but on her mountain. Her days were filled with digging ginseng gathering wild herbs tending to a small number of livestock her father kept - 2 cows for milking a couple of goats for cheese and there were always chickens for eggs. Raised by her father a bitter Veteran of the Great War Minnie is forced onto a path that she feels she never will escape. EventuallyMinnie rebels and heads out on her own path and discovers it leads to much more than she was first traded for.“Trade? Trade? I ain’t no animal or piece of hide to be like next year’s beef or salt meat!” Minnie just stood there in disbelief of all that had transpired over the last couple of hours. How could her Paw who loved her just trade her like she ain't nothin’? Less he don’t love me at all. Can’t be no other reason.