The Spirit of the Cove is a story of the birth, struggle for survival, by-the-bootstraps prospering, and eventual corruption of Anton?s Cove on Washington?s Olympic Peninsula. The strength and spirit of this fictional town is in the citizens? fiercely individualistic, yet also communal values. Anton?s Cove embodies American mythology, people at their most resilient, resourceful, their finest. Catalyzed by Grady, a sculptor and rebellious ex-drunk, and his hippie wife Linda, the town comes to thrive?until publicity and media hype herald the community?s dissolution. The sad irony of Anton?s cove is that the seeds of its destruction were in its success.