It Takes a Villain

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Goff Owen evokes the true spirit of rural life on the plateau overlooking the Tennessee River of Northeast Alabama early in the Twentieth Century. These were the years prior to, and including the intrusion of the First World War on that simple and lovely time. The boy becomes a young man, enlisting in the Coast Artillery of the military service, is sent overseas and serves in France during the war as Radio Sergeant. Devastated by the death of his mother due to the influenza epidemic of 1918, he returns after the war and is discharged in March 1919, to his Garden of the South on the Mountain to the cottage now empty of his life's treasure, now buried in Mt. Zion Church Yard. Born in Buford, Georgia, in 1893 the young boy moved with his family to the little farm on The Mountain, at Section, Alabama, a few miles distant from Scottsboro. Here was instilled in him the many impressions of this, his lovely Garden of the South, which sings to us throughout his writings, accompanied by the intensely burning love for his mother, who awakened his heart and spirit to the true beauty of this region, as she sat with him beneath the shade trees, by the cottage on The Mountain that cottage where, for him throughout his life, an everlasting light burned the old time welcome. Goff Owen, Jr.