Crackerbox Palace

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With his estranged wife Creedence about to finish rehab and grandmother Mama Runelle taking the death of her husband in stride, Roy zeroes in on his plan to tear down The Dixiana and build in its place a mixed-use retail development anchored by his coffee shop brand, the Carolina Beanery. Everyone’s fired, especially Trudy Pirkle, whom Roy seems intent on hurting in revenge for her romantic rejection of him sometime back in the last century.

Roy’s challenges also include the fulfilling of his grandfather’s last request, which involves putting on a folk music festival on the town green, an event he’d never been allowed to stage by the stuffy, Old South fussbudgets running the show in Tillman Falls.

Meanwhile, Button Sykes, whose petition to put a No Nukes Free Speech tent on the town green has been approved by town council—she fancies herself a pamphleteer in the grand tradition of the American revolution, one who's worried the high cancer rates in Edgewater County have to do with the aging Sugeree River Nuclear Station where they’re building more reactors. She’s also worried as heck about the sore throat that won’t go away, the stitch in her side, and the weight loss. Not only does cancer run in her family, but her dad used to run the plant. Until he died of cancer.

Finally in this fourth episode of the Dixiana saga, Christy Beaudock, fired Dixiana employee Newbie Harrell, and town wacko Howdy Shull form an unlikely friendship that coalesces around a spooky, ritual based routine Howdy introduces to the boys. It's dangerous, it's creepy, and to Christy, it looks like dark magic indeed.