Georgia History

A mid-century small-town Georgia trial involving a self-proclaimed "Oracle of the Ages" conjures a new musical phantasmagoria stocked with sharecroppers, Sacred Harp singers, righteous officers of the law, racial divides, a young newspaper reporter, holy rollers, and, of course, murder.

John Rollin Ridge or "Yellow Bird" (1827 – 1867), a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is considered the first Native American novelist. Ridge was the son of Treaty Party leader John Ridge and the grandson of Major Ridge, longtime Speaker of the Cherokee Nation.

A true story of madness, moonshine and murder in rural Georgia during the Great Depression.