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The story unfolds in a Southern Kentucky setting, particularly focusing on the lives of…
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- Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
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It was springtime in Kentucky, gay, irresponsible, Southern springtime, that comes bursting impetuously through highways and byways, heedless of possible frosts and impossible fruitions. A glamour of tender new green enveloped the world, and the air was sweet with the odor of young and growing things. The brown river, streaked with green where the fresher currents of the creeks poured in, circled the base of a long hill that dominated the landscape from every direction. In spite of the fact …
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