RUSH of RIVER over ROCK is based on a true story of a part wolf/dog found badly injured in the mountains of North Carolina, during the time that an educational project involving gray wolves took place on the other side of these mountains in a neighboring state. Neither wolf nor dog, uniquely himself, this more-than-dog finds a home with a woman also of different heritages. She had dreamed of a gray wolf on a ridge above her home before he arrived. The journal she kept during these years begins on the first day of the memorable blizzard of 1993.
Her daily observations of Luke, the wolf/dog, weave into her own story and express her joy in him and in the mountains where they live, a mile from the nearest neighbor. Ella’s experience of Luke and learning lesser known history of the Cherokee Indians, as well as the well known “trail where people cried,” pull together fragments and coincidences of her unknown grandmother’s life and light its shadow.
Her daily observations of Luke, the wolf/dog, weave into her own story and express her joy in him and in the mountains where they live, a mile from the nearest neighbor. Ella’s experience of Luke and learning lesser known history of the Cherokee Indians, as well as the well known “trail where people cried,” pull together fragments and coincidences of her unknown grandmother’s life and light its shadow.
