A Distant Music

Winter, 1892 - A Distant Music ... the story of a small town where coal dust soils more than the laundry on the clothesline and the paint on the company houses ... where concern for a needy neighbor and a sick child have come to take a backseat to the struggle for survival ... where things of beauty and grace are buried beneath the silent desperation that holds an entire community in its grip ... where the one man who might make a difference hovers on the precipice between hope and despair ... and where a one-room schoolhouse provides the setting for a miracle. In the Kentucky mining community called Skingle Creek, two childhood friends give a gift that may restore the hope of their families and save the life of their beloved teacher.