Cold Sassy, Georgia, had never been a whirlpool of excitement. If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies could make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson--a woman half his age and worse yet, a Yankee! On that day Will Tweedy's adventures began and an unimpeachable pious, deliciously irreverent town came to life.
Hated to see this one end....
Hated to see this one end....
