Ghost of Butternut Fields

What is this dank chill that wafts darkly from the river; seeping into the crumbling entrails of wall, floor and curtain?

From the moment the Rusk family glimpses ‘Butternut Fields’ through pouring rain and overgrown brush—it is evident that mystery shrouds the house and grounds. Tyler, Lawton, Cecil, and Tess Rusk—recently uprooted from their apartment in Milwaukee due to Depression era hardship—reluctantly settle into their mother’s run-down childhood home near Butternut, Wisconsin—now man...