In the Misty Blue Yonder: And Other Mysteries from Southern Appalachia – Trey Letcher

It’s 1969 and widower Bobby Tolliver is doing his best to raise his teenage daughter and young son alone. But the Tolliver clan has a history of lawlessness, even when they are the law. Bobby learns the depths of human depravity after discovering a girl chained up in a shed on his family’s property. Gerald McNabb is dying of cancer. The loathsome liveaboard attempts to clear his conscience by offering a caregiver his account of the massacre at the Whistle Mountain Resort back in the summer of ’69. What circumstances could have brought a twelve-year-old Gerald McNabb and petty criminal Bobby Tolliver to Whistle Mountain on that infamous night?