Morgan Crossroads

What exactly are two single women whose age is somewhere north of seventy, doing on a westbound Greyhound? Life in Morgan Crossroads, Alabama is as normal its residents can make it before the tallest man to ever grace the porch of Brown's General Store shows up on foot. He and his dog Spotlight, whose parts don't all work exactly right, leave after a single night, having uncovered a fifty year-old secret that will forever transform Morgan Crossroads and its beloved residents-most of all, Marcella Peabody. When Marcella and her life-long friend Eva Jo Clomper take off on an unannounced bus ride to Texas with little more than a pile of luggage and Marcella's wish to bring back the past, the Morgan Crossroads gossip lines light up. (Most tales that women in Polly's House of Beauty or men on the front porch of Brown's General Store hear have at least a morsel of truth in them. The trick is to figure out which do and which don't.)

"You're not uppity. You're just different enough from most of us that we might be able to learn a thing or two from you." Linda Cruz, the young pharmacist in Morgan Crossroads, Alabama is about to become the youngest member ever accepted into the Rosebud Circle. As their way of being helpful, some of the older members decide it is their duty as friends to assist Linda in finding a man. By an unofficial unanimous vote, the members decide the meeting is also the first ever top secret meeting, at least where their husbands are concerned. Not to be outdone, the men set out to organize their own event-a fundraiser to clean up the community park. They find themselves overwhelmed when their charitable project balloons into a massive venture that they cannot accomplish without the help of the women who they had determined to out do. Through an unforeseen series of events, the fundraiser takes a massive turn when Fred Starnes, a former part-time resident of Morgan Crossroads is asked to come back and help direct a theatrical performance in the church sanctuary. At times funny and at times heart-rending, Welcome Back Mister Starnes is a story of a community coming together for a joint cause, and in the process, showing a long misunderstood man that indeed, he too is loved.