Chapter 2: Father George Washington

Heidi Hardin, Chapter 2: Father George Washington Tune: London Bridges. Tempera on Paper with Mixed Media Collage, 24” x 18" Headlines: Making a Splash on Mars. Two ro­bot explorers. More than a year of tracing signs of ancient water. Was the red planet once home to life? A NASA computer paints an eerie afterglow to a Martian sunset. The Martian sun sinks below the horizon. The land lays dark. As the computer sketches the data to detail the foreground, Mars flames red. Color from the disappearing sun rip­ples out from the ebbing light. Our founding fathers, in the Declaration of In­dependence, declare: These United Colonies are and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; they are ab­solved from all Allegiance to the British Crown; all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved; and as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to do Things which the Inde­pendent States may of right do. Robert Bly states that Ba