A young field administrator for the TVA moves to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. People in the area are against him, especially a farmer who doesn't like that he pays black people to work for him. A lot of the story is about how an old woman is kicked off an island in the River and how a young man falls in love with her widowed granddaughter.
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A young field administrator for the TVA moves to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. People in the area are against him, especially a farmer who doesn't like that he pays black people to work for him. A lot of the story is about how an old woman is kicked off an island in the River and how a young man falls in love with her widowed granddaughter.
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