The Poisoned Crop

The Poisoned Crop takes place in the mid 1950’s, a time of both dawn and dusk in a small Midwestern town, Tallop River Falls, just north of the Mason-Dixon line. It was a time of passion when no one dared mention sex, a time when rock n’ roll began but was already condemned as “the devil’s music.” The struggle for civil rights was in its infancy and even the thought of racial mixing was considered a horrific nightmare – horrific enough to kill for. Two souls, Joseph, a Jewish boy, the son of a Rabbi, and Sarah, an African American girl whose father is murdered by the criminal neglect of the local police department, reach out to one another in their loneliness and find an incredible and healing love. Can this love survive amidst a town steeped in racism and hatred, a town where the Klan lurks in the not too distant background? Will the poisonous crop of bigotry that surrounds them destroy the passion they have for each other or can they somehow overcome the bigotries and hatreds of their town and time and continue to nurture one another?