Saint Maggie
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Maggie Blaine, a widow with two teenage daughters, runs a rooming house smack dab on the town square. In 1860 this makes her a social outcast. Boarding houses are only semi-respectable and hers has a collection of eclectic boarders – an aging writer, an undertaker’s apprentice, a struggling young lawyer, and an old Irishman. In addition, she is friends with Emily and Nate, the African-American couple with whom she shares her home, life, and chores. It is fortunate the town doesn’t know that Maggie, Nate, Emily, and Eli Smith (the free-thinking editor of the weekly newspaper) are station masters in the Underground Railroad. When Maggie is asked to house the new Methodist minister, handsome, gifted Jeremiah Madison, she hopes he will revive the little church she attends and provide her boarding house with a bit of badly-needed respectability. But Jeremiah comes with secrets that challenge Maggie’s resolve to love everyone and as the town reels from a series of shocking events, the compassionate, faithful Maggie searches for truth and forgiveness. (Based on a historical event.)