James McCaffery

Help Received: The Kentucky Cycle By Robert Schenkkan

James McCaffery

So far it would seem that the foreboding issue pertains to the harshness and darkness that grips this story. how even through the generations, death and murder, lying and deceit seem to grip the Rowen family to its core. Is it right? is it Wrong? or simply is it needed? I wasn’t alive then so sadly I cannot answer these questions. What i can say though is that the perpetuation of these behaviors down through the generations does not make for a great future, nor does it lesson the burden on the Appalachian people. While a seemingly work of fiction, it is scary to even begin to think how real this could be. Furthermore, iof this was the savagery of our ancestors, what does that make us? Are we falling back into these ways? Was it exercised out of us?  While history is written by the victors, its makes this reader and writer want to hear all sides. What really is going on with our country? Who and what were the people we came from? Because as a part Irish, I’d hate to have come from the hands of Micheal Rowen.