New Beginnings

Bennie Shelton leaves familiar life on mountain to learn from strangers in the new town of Helen. She doesnt know if she can keep her past a secret but must get little girl in school. She avoids towns new preacher as she helps prepare for rich Atlanta visitors who use Helen train to visit amazing mountain sites. She acquires second daughter and wonders how she can keep promise to write to preacher. Bennies oldest daughter is left widow when her husband dies of tuberculosis despite being taken to sanatorium near Baldwin. She moves to Atlanta where she works in Richs and becomes friends with an exciting worker in FDRs presidential campaign.