From Sea to Shining Sea

A moral history of America in two acts

Premiered at Villanova University, 1960

Copyright 1959

In the vast expanse of the northern hemisphere a new nation is to be born in the guise of Big Sam, a strong and gentle giant who makes the earth thunder when he walks and who can crush rocks in his bare hands.  Naturally the traditional forces of light and darkness wish to seduce the new nation into their own camps, so the dark forces send in Stephen Vincent Benet's legendary American "devil" Scratch, and the forces of light send the biblical archangel Michael (Mike the Swordbearer). Both combatants utilize female "assistants", pretty beth of theCherubim who, in time, will design the American flag and write Uncle Tom's Cabin; and the seductive demon Liza who leads the pack in the Salem witch hunts and helps run booze during Prohibition.

In the process of growing from adolescence to a painful maturity, Sam sheds a little blood and a lot of innocence; defeats some of the major European powers and most of the native American Indian tribes; invents the reaper, the Bessemer process, the electric light, the atom bomb, baseball and the comic strip; creates new forms of music and dance that eventually sweep the world, and links the oceans with the transcontinental railroad.

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