Title: Nathaniel
Hawthorne in Delray
Synopsis: When Delray Beach fails to win the All-America City
competition, city leaders blame Hester Pringle, an unwed mother/interior
decorator who failed to get a sitter for the final rehearsal of the God
Bless Delray song.
Hester is forced to wear a crimson letter A on her tennis outfit. Her
failure is partially because of a powerful man in town, but she keeps
quiet. That man, Frank McDimmesdale, had invited Hester up to his $25,000
treehouse for decorating tips, and she missed the rehearsal.
With his conscience heavy, McDimmesdale leads a procession of
townspeople, zoning attorneys and magazine photographers to his treehouse.
He climbs the scaffolding and apologizes. The city cites him for
conducting a novel's climactic scene at a historic property without a
permit.
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