Christy (1994)

Arriving from North Carolina, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston is overwhelmed by the beauty - and poverty - of Cutter Gap, where she must learn to teach school while learning to live and fit in with the locals.

Rob Allen enters a short story writing contest, but feels remorse for not paying attention to Little Bird, who has suddenly gone missing.

Christy is horrified to learn that Opal's baby has died due to a backwoods superstition, and Tom McHone is accused of reporting the moonshine operation to the authorities.

Christy is introduced to Polly Teague, the cove's oldest resident, and David runs into trouble with Ault Allen.

Dr. Ferrand pays a visit to Cutter Gap, and Christy receives a wagon load of donations from Asheville - including equipment to hook up a telephone line.

In hopes of curing Becky O' Teale's trachoma, Dr. MacNeill tries an experiment. Meanwhile, Miss Alice disapproves of Christy's friendship with Neil.

Miss Alice's daughter returns from "the dead" and Theodore S. Harland arrives, apparently to record the folklore of the cove.

David tries to bring a new church bell to town on his own, Christy's father visits and the locals begin to prepare for Thanksgiving. When Christy's father suffers a stroke, her mother informs her that she (Christy) must return home to care for him. Meanwhile, the Cutter Gap men prepare a surprise for the Reverend.

As David's sister prepares for her upcoming wedding, David proposes to Christy. Meanwhile, Christy attempts to help a teenager reconnect with his father.

Christy becomes jealous of David's childhood friend who has arrived for a visit. Sam Houston begins a search for the great white buck.