The Mitts Paragon is a story, based on facts, about theMitts family in rural southwest Arkansas during the 1920's and 1930's. At atime when the entire nation was struggling to survive through the Great Floodof 1927, the Great Depression beginning in 1929, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's, The Mitts Paragon details afew of the trials and hardships the family endured and their conviction to dowhat was right, even in the face of adversity, when other people might haveconceded defeat. It tells of the simple, treasured moments they embraced, richwith frequent laughter which seemed to knit the family closer together whenother families were unraveling. It tells how both the trials and treasuresstrengthened and enhanced their moral character. Their strength of charactergrew when hard work, truth, honesty, and fairness failed to provide another'sbasic needs. It continues from one family's natural aging and decline to thebuilding of a new, younger family that will continue to bear the torch.
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