Lost Scullion

When three score and ten years had passed sinceAmerican rebels fought for independence, thedescendants of schism inflamed pilgrims watchedthe Revolutionary War's remaining battle heroes depart thisworld in fatigues of bedfast surrender. As the passing of theirheroic founding fathers heightened the patriotism that raged inAmerica's electric life flow, it excited an inheritance of sectariananimus to a fevered, anti-immigration pitch.Spawned from an affluence of patriotic fervor, nativist street gangsthreaten immigrants across New England as Michael, the toddlingson of an absent, Irish sailor da in antebellum Boston of 1845, ismade a ward of the state when his mam falls ill and blasphemesherself into asylum. Struggling with a virulent antipathy towardsIreland's bitter 'moral economy', his incarcerated mam is burdenedto endure maternal loss while, taken in by the surly, elder cookof a ribaldrous Irish alehouse, Michael works as scullion whennativists erupt into violence and attack the inn.