Roz Harper begins a relationship with Mitch Carnagie after her failed second marriage; however, her life gets complicated when her deceitful ex-husband arrives and the Harper Bride, a ghost who haunts her historic home, appears.
Visitors, spectators, and residents of Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 describe, in a series of free-verse poems, the Scopes "monkey trial" and its effects on that small town and its citizens.
Davy Crockett, the self-proclaimed "ring-tailed roarer of the western woods" tells some tall tales about how he became a legend, throwing in a few real facts about his life along the way.
Eleven-year-old Blessing has lived with her grandmother in a cabin in the Tennessee mountains since she was two years old, but now she has to accept that her grandmother is dying and that she must continue life without her.
Lawyers face off in 1925 Dayton, Tennessee in the Scopes Monkey Trial, which determined the legality of teaching evolution versus creation in the classroom.