Lilly-Anne Taylor was a small town country girl. She was thin and lean, had piercing green eyes, and long, straight, straw-colored hair that was constantly covered by a cowboy hat. She had never seen an Apple product in her fourteen years of life. That is, until her little town of Summerset started going downhill. The only way to save Summerset was to bring it into the future.

It all started on a fateful September day. Lilly-Anne was taking some eggs and milk from her family's farm to the town's market. She'd been doing this every Friday that they had goods to sell since she was five years old. Used to be, her father would take her with him when he made the runs, but her father had decided since she was a young lady now, she could start doing it herself.

Lilly got to the market and noticed a lack of full shelves. She thought this was strange, since Marty always kept all his stock on the shelves (there was no crime in Summerset). When she found Marty, he said he couldn't pay the price she wanted for her eggs and milk.

"Why not?" she asked him. Her dad and herself had sold their goods for the same price for as long as she could remember.

"Well, I hate to say this, but I'm just not making what I used to."

"And why's that?" Lilly-Anne asked, her twangy Georgia drawl emphasizing her confusion.

"There's not as many people living here anymore," Marty explained. "All the kids are going to college and not coming back. No one appreciates the farm life anymore." His face turned solemn. "I may hafta close down the store."

"Ain't nobody gonna close their store," Lilly declared. "Because gonna fix your problem."

"No offense little lady," Marty said. "But I don't see how just one person can do that. It's not my problem, it's the whole town's."

Lilly-Anne had already made up her mind, however, and she wasn't going to change it for nothin'.

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Lilly returned to her house and explained to her parents why she didn't have the usual amount of money from her sales. They were very understanding (her dad remembered some tough times of his past when even he couldn't sell at price), and told her to go back up on Friday to try again.

"Nothin' will change then!" Lilly exclaimed suddenly. "Marty said that there just aren't enough people here for him to buy from. He thinks he'll hafta close down the store!"

Her dad's eyes widened at that. Even in the past rough seasons, nobody had ever said anything about closing.

"That's awful!" Lilly's mom cried. "If he closes the store, the whole town will go!"

"He ain't gonna close the store," Lilly said boldly, her hands on her hips, "Because I'm gonna save Summerset."

"Now how exactly do you intend to do that?" her father asked. "You're just one person. We're talking about a whole town!"

Lilly-Anne smiled. "Good thing it's a small town."

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Lilly decided she needed to find out what other towns had that made them so prosperous, and what Summerset was lacking. She figured the old town library would be a good place to start.

So, a few minutes later, she was at the town library. She searched all the encyclopedias, and the atlases, and tourism books, but found nothing. Then, she thought, "Wait a minute! Tourists! Not too many towns are as cowboy as this one, and we have some pretty old ruins from the Natives. Maybe we could get some tourists to come here."

But how do we let them know about Summerset?

She asked her parents the same question at supper, and they told her in the morning, she should go talk to the Mayor and tell him about her idea.

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The next morning, she went to talk to Mayor Jud Harris. He loved her idea, and told her that his brother made websites for a living. So, Jud called his brother, who Lilly-Anne learned was named John. After he hung up, Jud said that John was about an hour away in Vidalia, and would be by sometime around lunch.

At lunchtime, Jud called Lilly-Anne's parents and told them to send her to town hall. She arrived and saw a tall man with graying hair who introduced himself as John. Together with Lilly and Jud, he set up a very persuasive website for Summerset.

Today, Summerset is doing fine. Their town motel has been expanded and is still filled to the brim in the summer months. John taught Jud how to operate the website and make whatever changes he needs to, and the library has recently gotten a shipment of brand new desktops. Marty's store is thriving; he's considering opening a new 'Marty's Grocery' in the next town over.

And Lilly-Anne is able to sell her eggs and milk at full price.