From the beginning, Dillon makes claims that he loves Rachel partially because she is the only one who has memories of his father.

Rachel leaves the Homeplace to attend a nursing school, where she spends several years.

Rachel ends up marrying Tony, an Italian man that Tommie and Arthur Lee set her up with.

Jackie is left alone after the deaths of Tom and Dillon in the flood, and moves away, wanting to forget the place she called home.

Buffalo Creek, which spans 17 miles, is located in a hollow of southern West Virginia's Logan County and consists of three branches.

On her website, Giardina says: "The Buffalo Creek ‘flood’ was the heart of my young adulthood.