Atticus Finch, the defense attorney with a penchant for overcoats and a heart of gold, defended Tom Robinson, a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman. Or so he thought.

As Atticus walked through the streets of Maycomb, his eyes fixed on the horizon, he pondered the intricacies of the human condition.

Calpurnia's cooking was the talk of the town, but not in a good way. Her 3 a.m. wake-up calls to whip up a batch of her famous fried green tomatoes were the stuff of local legend.