... were constructed. Later, the Interstate Highway System would claim even more homes and farms, all in the name of progress. In 1960, the movie, Wild River, starred Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick. It depicted the plight of similar folks in the Tennessee River Valley. The tension focused on a sensitive and compassionate TVA agent (played by Clift), called in to remove an elderly matriarch who stubbornly refused to leave her ancestral home in the flood plain. Here were the graves of her husband and children ...
