The Five-Percent Minority: Chagrin Falls Revisited

In the summer of 1929, a few months before the Great Depression, a drama started to unfold in the quaint little village of Chagrin Falls, Ohio--a drama that would impact the lives of many people for nearly a century. The story begins with a teenager, Katherine Jones, and a horseman from the East, Kenneth Palmer. They soon married, opening the curtains on a dysfunctional marriage.

Act one characterizes the couple's lifestyle, which included drinking, infidelity and domestic abuse. Even with t...