The Girl from the Blue Ridge Mountains

The Girl from the Blue Ridge Mountains is based on the early life of Margaret Hamilton Riggs, a Virginian neglected and abused as a child, who was rescued by her grandparents to live an impoverished but joyful life until she met her abusive husband, who tried to kill her. All of the prime characters were real people, and the major events in the book are true. Margaret was the grandmother of Lisa Anne Turner’s good friend, Twila Brewer. Turner and Brewer worked together as 911 emergency oper...