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Will runs to Aunt Loma's to tell her of her father's arrival she doesn't have a phone.

Rucker asks Will to find his mother, Mary Willis, and Will's aunt, Loma. Rucker's wife, Mattie Lou, always refused to let Rucker keep corn whiskey in the house, and even though Mattie Lou died three weeks earlier, Rucker still keeps his whiskey at Will's house. Rucker Blakeslee, Will's grandfather, stops by Will's house and takes a shot of corn whiskey, as he does every day. His story begins on July 5, 1906, right after Cold Sassy's first Fourth of July celebration since the Civil War, a conflict known in Cold Sassy as the War Between the States.

Ch.1 In the year 1914, the novel's narrator, Will Tweedy, recalls the summer of 1906 in Cold Sassy, when he was fourteen years old.