Here's a classic small-town scene: Most of the young people have left, one mostly-empty church and one gossipy, infrequent newspaper remain, most people keep to their own increasingly harder lives, change and strangers come and go and are borne with a little more loss. Nobody can save a town like that. The people who live there have forgotten how to live together, have forgotten the reasons their ancestors came together, have forgotten how wonderful life …showed first 75 words of 325 total…

…showed last 75 words of 325 total…naive college boy into a real person, but the real story in this film is of the miracle all small-town kids who love the good life they knew still desire - one last reunion, one last fight to save not just the symbol of a town - a beanfield, in this case - but to save the town itself and the great love that planted the town in that earth and those people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**