Shack Road

By: Hallam Whitney

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Synopsis: A sharecropper's women. . . what a life they led a man! Callie May, his wife, just couldn't help being friendly to strangers. . . a warm friendliness that was forever attracting strangers to her. . . May Ellen, his elder daughter, ran away from the cabin on Shack Road to look for a nice, respectable husband. . but came running home again on her honeymoon! Grandma, his mother-in-law, had stories to tell that would make a wild stallion blush. . . and there was no stopping her when she began talking about her young days! Lorraine, the younger daughter. . . she was the real one! Down in Tampa, where she "worked", or back home on Shack Road, the men couldn't keep away from her. . . and whether it was the Colonel, who owned the land the family lived on, or the nice boy May Ellen married, or a chance bill collector who came around. . . when they saw Lorraine, there was the devil to pay!