The Story
High Point is a character-driven drama series that digs into the real stories behind early stock car racing, moonshine running, and small-town faith in High Point, North Carolina. At its core, this project is about ordinary people facing extraordinary moral choices, and how grace, loyalty, and consequence collide on dusty back roads and Sunday-morning pews.
The series was created and written by George Putnam, whose vision shaped High Point from its earliest pages. George’s scripts weave together documented history, lived memories, and deeply human characters, always aiming for emotional honesty and spiritual depth. His heart for redemption stories, and for showing how God works in flawed people over time—gives the series its moral backbone.
Guiding the project forward is Executive Producer Matt Yesbeck, a longtime entrepreneur and close friend of George’s. Matt stepped in to champion High Point and help shepherd it from script to screen, building relationships, guiding strategy, and keeping the focus on excellence, authenticity, and a biblically grounded moral compass. His conviction is simple: if the story is truthful, well-crafted, and honors God, it can reach both church and mainstream audiences in a powerful way.
Authenticity is reinforced by two men whose families lived the world this series portrays: Bill Blair Jr., son of hauler and racer Bill Blair Sr., and Gary Lewallan, son of racer and moonshine runner Jimmie Lewallan. Bill and Gary bring more than just last names to the table—they bring family stories, hard-earned details, and a deep respect for the men who ran those roads in the 1930s and 40s. Their insight helps ensure that the racing, the cars, the culture, and the spiritual stakes all ring true.
Together, this team is committed to making High Point more than just another period drama. The goal is a grounded, cinematic series that honors real people, tells the truth about sin and grace, and invites viewers into a world where faith isn’t a backdrop, it’s the battleground.
Meet the Characters
Step into the world of High Point and get to know the people who make this story come alive. From Bill Blair’s dangerous double life on the back roads to Lucille’s quiet strength at home, every character is caught between faith, fear, and the fast-growing world of stock car racing. Here you’ll meet the bootleggers, lawmen, racers, and families whose choices echo through a small North Carolina town—and discover that every heart has something to hide, and something worth redeeming.
Bill Blair
Dairy farmer, bootlegger, and fearless dirt-track racer balancing fierce loyalty, quick temper, and a growing weight of consequences.
Lucille Blair
Bill’s steadfast wife and spiritual anchor, raising their children and quietly calling everyone around her back to faith and sanity.
Bob Blair
Bill’s quieter brother and business partner, running the milk deliveries while trying to keep peace between family and finances.
Mary Lee Blair
Bob’s sharp-tongued, big-dreaming wife who’s determined to turn local racing and small-town gossip into real power and profit.
Monte Moran
Movie-star-handsome hardware clerk and hot-shoe racer whose charm, drinking, and one deadly mistake send his life spiraling.
Jimmie Lewallan
Bill’s best friend and rival, a hard-charging racer and moonshine hauler who meets danger with a joke and the throttle wide open.
Elmer Kearns
Loyal friend and fellow driver who runs decoy runs at night and trades bruises on the track for laughs off of it.
Eustace Bailey
Talkative, God-fearing hardware and lumber man who loves his late wife, his store, and the reckless “son” he sees in Monte.
Sheriff Doc Lee
High Point’s no-nonsense sheriff, walking a thin line between friendship and duty as he tracks bootleggers, racers, and killers.
Herb Payne
Cigar-chomping, homely but self-assured mechanic at Payne’s Garage who loves his work and quietly gives Bill every horsepower edge he can.
Reverend James “J.T.” Turner
a 43-year-old Reformed Protestant pastor trying to shepherd a town that’s falling in love with speed and money.
Alice Murphy
is a seamstress with a respectable exterior (“properly dressed,” “dowdy,” pleasant) who moves into Bailey’s Hardware at exactly the moment Eustace is most vulnerable. A predator disguised as help—a socially plausible “good deed” that becomes an emotional/physical threat inside Eustace’s store and private life.
Lamar Carlson
is a charismatic salesman-type with sharp ambition—yet deeply reactive, controlling, and hostile toward law enforcement. He is a suave, one-handed showman turned station baron and moonshine boss—half promoter, half warlord. Lamar is the owner–operator of Carlson’s Service Station with a garage, small motel, and a large house on the grounds.