![]() ![]() ![]() Salvation on Sand Mountain begins with a crime and a trial and then becomes an extraordinary exploration of a place, a people, and an author's descent into himself. "When Dennis Covington covered the trial of Glenn Summerford for The New York Times, a world far beyond the trial opened up to him. Glenn Summerford is convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison." The trial, which becomes a sensation throughout southern Appalachia, echoes familiar themes from a troubled secular world - marital infidelity, spouse abuse, and alcoholism - but it also raises questions about faith, forgiveness, redemption, and, of course, snakes. At gunpoint, he forces her to stick her arm in a box of rattlesnakes. A snake-handling preacher by the name of Glendel Buford Summerford has just tried to murder his wife, Darlene, by snakebite. "It is Scottsboro, Alabama, in the fall of 1991. ![]()
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