The Discovery

The Discovery
A Meeting Between the Old
World and the New World
A Play about Columbus by Teresa Woods Barnes
ISBN 0-932776-25-6
95 pages, plastic comb binding $12.00

Full of poetry, humor, and drama, this moving play uncovers the deeper issues underlying Columbus’s “discovery” and the mission of America. In dramatic scenes and imaginative pictures it probes the profound questions of human destiny and the implications for nature of this world-changing historical event. Perfect for students in the middle and upper grades.

To know your own spirit,
ye human beings,
Is to know the spirits
of the earth....
And we,
we beings of the earth --
We are in your hands.
We are in your hands.
Take care. Take care.
Take care for us.
Song of the Whales

The Discovery