Neil MacNeil and the handsome Reverend David Grantland. Viewers were upset about the cancellation because the season two series finale ended on a cliffhanger with Christy split between two very different men vying for her affection, the rugged Dr. Executives canceled the show soon after the season two finale was shot. Fans of Marshall’s novel enjoyed the series, though their satisfaction was short-lived. Tyne Daly won an Emmy for her supporting role as Alice Henderson, a Quaker missionary, and LeVar Burton joined the cast in season two. True to the novel, the show was filmed in Tennessee. Twenty-seven years later, Christy was developed into a TV series, which debuted on Easter Sunday on CBS. Marshall conducted extensive research into Appalachian life and culture, so even the fictionalized aspects of the novel are still well-founded. Many elements in Christy are rooted in fact. After Marshall and her parents later visited the mission school in Del Rio, Tennessee in the late fifties, Marshall wanted to tell her mother’s story. Marshall was inspired to write her famous book based on the experiences of her mother, Leonora Whitaker, who left her family and home in North Carolina to teach at a mission school in the Appalachian Mountains in 1909. Some of the best stories originate from real life, like Catherine Marshall’s 1967 novel Christy.
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