<P> When the show begins , Roman Catholic Honey ( Cynthia Belliveau in seasons 1 - 3 , and Laura Bruneau , seasons 4 - 5 ) is married to Presbyterian Jack Bailey . They own a small town hardware , store but it is forced into bankruptcy when the bank calls their loan . They return to Jack 's mother 's home , revealing Jack is from a privileged upbringing . Jack finds the visit intolerable with his overbearing mother , May , and retreats with his family to their summer cabin by the lake . Upon cleaning the house out , Jack encounters a nest of hornets that quickly overtake him . Honey and the children try to get him back to town , but he succumbs to the stings and dies soon after . While at May 's house , Honey desperately tries to find work to no avail . May also forces Honey to give up her baby daughter , Violet , to the care of distant relatives , telling her that the judge would find her unfit should she try to fight it . Honey never fully understood the arrangement May had offered the relatives regarding Violet , that she was up for a full adoption . Not finding work in New Bedford , Honey decides she must leave the boys with May while she looks for work elsewhere . She lives with her brother for a while . She got a job , but her brother sold the building the apartment was in , stole her money , and left town without telling her . She then lost her job following a near - death illness . To recuperate , she reluctantly went back to May 's . She given a job at the mine , May 's mine , and soon creates a following in the town as a hairdresser . She makes friends in the small town , one of whom lives in the house , Grace , May 's adult daughter . Grace is also a savior to the boys on many occasions . Honey and the boys suffered months of May 's manipulations , including the near - kidnap of her daughter , Violet , to Florida . Honey takes her children to live in the back room of the local laundromat . She loses her job at the mine , but gains a very part - time one in the laundromat . She also loses all of her hairdressing clients . Max , a man of whom she had grown quite fond , asks her to marry him , to which she agrees . He then takes a teaching job in Albany , NY . May is beyond distressed that Honey would take her grandsons away . She tries first to manipulate the school board into letting Max keep his job , but after they had fired him for her , they refused . She then goes to her son to try to convince him to give Honey her job back at the mine . This also does not work . Her last resort is to try to make a gift of the house Honey had been saving to buy , but May had purchased it out from under her so she could not have it and Honey declined the gift . At the last minute , Max receives a job offer that could keep them in New Bedford , something Honey 's second son , Henry , or Fat , really wants to do . His youth and naivete allowed him to often see the good of May 's heart and he openly explained he did not want to leave because he knew it would hurt her if they did . </P>
<P> When the show begins , Roman Catholic Honey ( Cynthia Belliveau in seasons 1 - 3 , and Laura Bruneau , seasons 4 - 5 ) is married to Presbyterian Jack Bailey . They own a small town hardware , store but it is forced into bankruptcy when the bank calls their loan . They return to Jack 's mother 's home , revealing Jack is from a privileged upbringing . Jack finds the visit intolerable with his overbearing mother , May , and retreats with his family to their summer cabin by the lake . Upon cleaning the house out , Jack encounters a nest of hornets that quickly overtake him . Honey and the children try to get him back to town , but he succumbs to the stings and dies soon after . While at May 's house , Honey desperately tries to find work to no avail . May also forces Honey to give up her baby daughter , Violet , to the care of distant relatives , telling her that the judge would find her unfit should she try to fight it . Honey never fully understood the arrangement May had offered the relatives regarding Violet , that she was up for a full adoption . Not finding work in New Bedford , Honey decides she must leave the boys with May while she looks for work elsewhere . She lives with her brother for a while . She got a job , but her brother sold the building the apartment was in , stole her money , and left town without telling her . She then lost her job following a near - death illness . To recuperate , she reluctantly went back to May 's . She given a job at the mine , May 's mine , and soon creates a following in the town as a hairdresser . She makes friends in the small town , one of whom lives in the house , Grace , May 's adult daughter . Grace is also a savior to the boys on many occasions . Honey and the boys suffered months of May 's manipulations , including the near - kidnap of her daughter , Violet , to Florida . Honey takes her children to live in the back room of the local laundromat . She loses her job at the mine , but gains a very part - time one in the laundromat . She also loses all of her hairdressing clients . Max , a man of whom she had grown quite fond , asks her to marry him , to which she agrees . He then takes a teaching job in Albany , NY . May is beyond distressed that Honey would take her grandsons away . She tries first to manipulate the school board into letting Max keep his job , but after they had fired him for her , they refused . She then goes to her son to try to convince him to give Honey her job back at the mine . This also does not work . Her last resort is to try to make a gift of the house Honey had been saving to buy , but May had purchased it out from under her so she could not have it and Honey declined the gift . At the last minute , Max receives a job offer that could keep them in New Bedford , something Honey 's second son , Henry , or Fat , really wants to do . His youth and naivete allowed him to often see the good of May 's heart and he openly explained he did not want to leave because he knew it would hurt her if they did . </P>
who played honey on wind at my back
who played honey on wind at my back
Cynthia Belliveau Laura Bruneau
Cynthia Belliveau Laura Bruneau