Authors J. B. Reese and Gretchen Griffith take the reader back to the time when nothing was more important to the isolated Madison County, North Carolina mountain family than individuality, self-confidence, a self-sustaining life style and pride in the ability to go it alone if necessary. This Spring Creek community offered a way of life with extreme hardships and joyful successes so real and so natural and so down to earth true, that these stories should never be lost.