Word: salus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That kind of sentiment is typical of Laurel McKelva Hand, who is the Optimist's Daughter by his first long, happy marriage. Morally exacting and spiritually stern, Laurel is very much her mother's girl. The Optimist himself is gruff, generous Judge Clinton McKelva of Mount Salus, Miss...
...Judge dies in New Orleans while apparently recuperating from an operation. Fay and Laurel bring the body back to the old family house, where Laurel grew up and where all of Mount Salus gathers to "tell the Judge goodbye." Finally, Laurel is left for a time in a house that is now Fay's trying to sort out what really happened there in the past...