Kissin' and Stuff

Don't let this title fool you. I'm not telling you about the first time I kissed a boy in this post. I'm telling you about Kentucky Cycle-which coincidently involved kissing and stuff.
If you want the "First Time" story, you'll have to plead on hands and knees.

Kentucky Cycle is a series of nine plays which go from 1700's up to 1970's. Pleasant Grove High School, on April 26, 27, 28, did two plays from the series-Tall Tales & Fire in the Hole. After much hard work, I obtained the female lead for Tall Tales-Mary Anne Rowan.

Tall Tales is about how the land the Rowans live on gets swindled away from them by a story teller named J. T. Wells from New York City.

Fire in the Hole takes place several years later and that same land has become a Coal Mine. The conditions and pay are awful, so they start up a Union with the help of Abe Steinman.

The story is about the land and the people living on it and the people fighting for it. It used to just be Robert Schenkkan's story-the author. It used to only belong to The Rowans, and The Jacksons, and The Winstons and whomever was in the story.

But now, the story is mine. The story doesn't end with The end of the Kentucky Cycle. It breathes and moves and keeps moving forward because what we learned from this piece of beautiful literature doesn't stay within the text-it is within our lives.
pictures courtesy of Olivia Petty