Introduction

Dug porter was the toast of hickman, up at the north end of california central it must have been some kind of god given talent that turned dug into the perfect preacher. He took them down to the river, the one that ran past their farms and orchards that kept the valley alive. And there, as the cleansing waters flowed round them, he baptized them in the name of the father and the son and the spirit. His fine, simple mind, his carismatic preacher, pastor dug you'll hear what they say later,. The whispers, the arched eyebrows, the shock that came with discovery, but not yet.