The Sacrifice of Lucinda Mills

In late 1932, with so many Americans either starving or mad with worry at its prospect, a Pentecostal evangelist, "Little" Mary Skaggs, began preaching a revival in western Martin County, Kentucky. Among her converts was Lucinda Mills, matriarch of a large local family, and her son John, who soon claimed to be a prophet. John Mills was said to be able to change water into wine and grapevines into snakes, and although few besides his immediate family joined his cult they stirred enough rucku...