They were stories that reached back into time, some even into slavery. Wherever the family gathered, in our northern home where I grew up or in the South where I was born, the stories were told. Some of the stories were humorous, some were tragic, but all taught me a history not then written in textbooks. They taught me a history about myself. Those stories my family shared with me I have drawn upon to share with people around the world. They are the stories upon which all the Logan books have been based. The Well is another such story. It is a story told by David Logan about his boyhood. Those readers familiar with my other books about the Logan family—Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Let the Circle Be Unbroken; The Road to Memphis; and others—will recognize David as the father of Cassie, Stacey, Christopher-John, and Little Man. Just as my father and other members of my family passed on family history through the stories, so does David. It is David’s story, but in telling it, it becomes Cassie’s and her brothers’ too.
