May 3, 1936, in Clay County, Kentucky. The flood had taken their cabin on April 12. Sarah Collins, 34, walked her children 11 miles to her sister’s house over the swinging bridge at Redbird Creek. The sack on her back held three dresses, a Bible, and cornbread. The bundle in her arms was her husband’s coat. He died in the mine in 1934. The children were James, 8, carrying flour; Ruth, 6, holding her mother’s dress; and Paul, 4, barefoot and crying. The bridge swayed. The water below was 30 feet deep and running fast. Sarah was barefoot because her shoes broke two days earlier. She didn’t stop. She told James, “Look at the cabin, not the water.” The cabin on the hill was her sister’s. They stayed there until 1941. Sarah took in washing. All three kids graduated high school. James became a preacher. He kept a plank from that bridge in his church and said, “Fear is a river. Faith is a bridge.”