Coming from a Lithuanian background, Amazon reviewer Donna Cekauskas brings to Tietam Cane a unique perspective that is painfully familiar with the encroachment of one culture on another, an event which in the USA unfolded so subtly  over the century following the Civil War. In Ms. Cekauskas’ homeland the battle is still being fought against Russian hegemony. Fortunately, Coca Cola and Toyota and Exon aren’t foreign powers; but their arrival and the arrival of their progeny in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries did transform the South, many might say for the better.http://www.amazon.com/Tietam-Cane-Lance-Levens/product-reviews/1611792916