The Morning Side

In 1965, life on the morning side of the Blue Ridge Mountains feels far away from world events. Jerry Fletcher and David Williams are high school seniors ready to get on with their lives, and they are more concerned with the baggage they have inherited from their parents than with Civil Rights or the Gulf of Tonkin. Jerry is the only son of a family evicted from the mountains to make way for Shenandoah National Park. His path seemed set by family history and the sense of belonging he still finds in the mountains, but fate and the Vietnam War will take him far away. David is the eldest son of a local fundamentalist preacher. His future seemed set in the ministry, but experience guides him down a different path and he struggles to reconcile his changing world view with values he holds dear.