The Wise of Heart

Author's Introduction and Overview

One evening in the early summer of 2022, I settled in to watch Inherit the Wind on YouTube. Not the 1960 film starring Spencer Tracy, but rather the 1988 television movie version starring Jason Robards and Kirk Douglas. I got a few minutes into watching it, and I had a sudden epiphany. This would make a great story set in the present day, featuring a high school biology teacher caught up in the transgender craze arrested for teaching the facts of biological science in defiance of a state law requiring unquestioning gender affirmation. I turned off the movie, and instead, I hunted down the transcript for the Scopes Monkey Trial.

And so, The Wise of Heart was born.

What’s it about?

Updated September 30, 2023 with a illustrated summary.

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Illustrations by Elin Chancey further bring the events of The Wise of Heart to life.

The crowdfunding campaign was an adventure in and of itself. The details are chronicled in other posts. As part of the crowdfund campaign, I prepared the following video trailer.

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