The Devil's Own and a Tent Revival in a Southern Town
Miriam Thornbury, a lone daughter shunned as the Devil's Own, faces social scorn amid a Methodist tent revival. Pastor Sam Ledbetter and Jack Howard urge mercy and invitation, while Jasper Webb lashes the girl as a Jezebel. Howard invites Miriam to the service hoping to guide her to faith and a possible conversion.
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Jezabel
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Miriam ‘Thornbury
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Brother Webb
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Thornhill
Miriam Thornbury
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Young Hows
Caleb Thornbury
Furren Lan
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Miriam
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Sa Ledbetter
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John’ the’ Baptist
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Jack
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A Mountain Portrait by SM Byrd in Haralson County
In a rambling narrative set in Haralson region, the author stitches scenes of mountain life with vivid locals. The piece mingles rural characters, a river valley, a pond, diverse farmyard voices, and a traveling observer who joins a family gathering at dusk, weaving humor and local color into a cinematic travelogue through Cedar Valley and Dugdown mountains.
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Habersham
Longstreet
Olsom
Haralson
Beyant
Dugdown
Cedar Valley
Tucker
Alerbam
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