Henrytown , Louisiana...
Author of THE GLORY DAYS OF BUFFALO EGBERT a.k.a People of the Whistling Waters.
Aaron boarded a train, but this time he was leaving behind his adored wife and children, and the many treasured souls of Henrytown , Louisiana.
American service men and women needed chaplains.
But then it radically changed in 1941 when America was thrust into WWII.
His life was rich and content.
Henrytown and its people, in all their varied and wondrous forms, gradually became Aaron\'s family.
But when they heard him preach, they stopped praying for a new pastor.
The consensus was that he was too pretty and too helpless to survive inside a hardscrabble town.
The people of Henrytown were struck by his startling good looks and gracious manner.
And yet...
Aaron boarded the train...
The son of a wealthy family, surely Aaron wouldn\'t actually accept the pastorate of some backwater Louisiana town, especially in the height of the Great Depression.
In 1934 Georgia aristocrat Aaron Brooks graduated from the Atlanta Seminary.
And yet...
It wasn\'t until 1962 that it was even considered a viable speed-trap.
It\'s barely on the map.
Henrytown , Louisiana..
