The Old Place

Welcome to Grassy Creek North Carolina. The year is 1919 and a pandemic is sweeping through this small Appalachian farming town. Doc Waddell rides horseback from sickbed to sickbed while the townspeople crowd into church for a revival. Dread Cox seeks the aid of a midwife because he caint afford a real doctor. Crystal befriends Georgia a colored girl despite the prejudices of her dad. The deputy sheriff makes a prisoner give his word that he wont run off and Florence Porter refuses to let her eleven-year-old deceased daughter be buried.While often stranger than fiction these are the true accounts of the authors grandparents who abided by the eighth commandment; You shall not steal nor deal falsely nor lie to one another as well as the other nine.