@article{718328,
      recid = {718328},
      author = {Huguley, Piper Gian.},
      title = {The preacher's promise : a home to Milford College novel  /},
      publisher = {Liliaceae Press,},
      address = {[College Park, Georgia] :},
      pages = {251 p. ;},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {Devastated by her father's death days after her triumphant  graduation from Oberlin College, Amanda Stewart is all  alone in the world. To fulfill a promise she made to her  father, she resolves to start a school to educate and  uplift their race. Sorting through her father's papers, she  discovers he had carried on a mysterious correspondence  with a plantation in Milford, Georgia. When she arrives in  Milford to investigate, the mayor tells her to leave.  Virgil Smithson, Milford's mayor, blacksmith and sometimes  preacher man with a gift for fiery oratory, doesn't want  anything to do with a snobby schoolteacher from up North.  He must organize his fellow citizens into a new town and  raise his young daughter alone. Still, his troubled past  haunts him. He cannot forget the promise he made to his  daughter's mother as she died: that their child would learn  to read and write. If only he didn't have secrets that the  new schoolteacher seems determined to uncover.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/718328},
}