The story picks up, more less in the present, as 83-year-old Bud Threadgoode plots his escape from an Atlanta retirement home and catches the train to Birmingham to see Whistle Stop one last time.Īs his Aunt Ninny discovered in "Fried Green Tomatoes," however, Whistle Stop really isn't there any more. More: 9 of the most quintessential Wilmington-area T-shirts of all time novelist Patricia Cornwell puts heavy handed digital 'Spin' on cyber-attacks We learn that Buddy - now Bud - graduated from Georgia Tech, married his grade-school sweetheart and became a successful veterinarian up in Maryland. Then, when he was in high school, his beautiful mother died, far too young, of cancer. (After that, the town - in those days before Political Correctness and Sensitivity - knew him as "Stump.") That did not, however, prevent him from becoming a one-armed quarterback, leading his high school team to a state championship. At the age of 6, he lost his left arm in a railroad accident. His was an idyllic, happy childhood with a few bumps. Little Buddy was adopted by the extended Threadgoode family and grew up around the Whistle Stop Cafe, which his mom and "Aunt Idgie" ran. As they say in the South, he needed killin')
(Of Buddy's no-account father the less said the better. As "Fried Green Tomatoes" fans will recall, Ruth and baby Buddy fled her abusive husband and found refuge with her very, very good "friend" Imogene "Idgie" Threadgoode. The "Wonder Boy" of the title is Buddy Threadgoode Jr., the son of Ruth Jamison.
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