It’s January 2020 in an ordinary small, West Virginia town like so many towns across the nation. A place where everyone knows everybody’s business…and can recite their neighbor’s transgressions back for generations. A town that survives and even thrives despite natural disasters and man-made curses because when things are at their worst, they are at their best. A town that cherishes its children, land, worship, and of course its sports. A place where gossip moves faster than a river at flood, no hurt is ever forgiven, and politics is distinctly personal! 

 

Suddenly, everyone’s talking about a new virus on the other side of the earth, the other side of the country, then the state, and then on Easter Sunday, in April 2020, it arrives in their town. Divided, scared, and angry, they wonder: Is this a hoax, will it kill them all, how can they protect their families? As the long days and months of 2020, 2021, and 2022 drag on, the community creates ways to celebrate, laugh, work, love, tend their sick, and mourn terrible losses.