Painting Sarah

Sarah heard through the town grapevine that the Laughton's had bought thousands of acres to build townhouses, a mall, and even an industrial complex center for the nuclear power facility that they had convinced the power company to consider building to supply power to the newly emerging valley. This was a deal that could easily make the one hundred million dollars that they invested a multi-billion dollar dream. They wouldn't even have to do anything else but buy the land, create the drawings and scale models, and with all the permits in hand, sell it at a huge profit to a developer, who would build their dream and sell it off in parcels to the highest bidder. Everyone was perched to make money, from the speculator to the realtor to the developer to the buyer to the business to the town.

Yet, it was their dream to maximize their profit by doing it all. There was plenty of money to go around, but they were greedy. Instead of passing off and retiring their debt and tripling their investment, they wanted to make billions more. Alas, all good plans are just that, plans and not every dream comes true. Fortunately for Sarah and unfortunately for the Laughton's, not every story has a happy ending.

Sarah, now a very wealthy woman in her own regard from painting her landscapes of trees and flowers called upon every powerful and influential person she knew and every person who had bought one of her paintings. There in Hopedale Valley, they all gathered appropriately on Earth Day to protest the destruction of land and the cutting of trees that Sarah had painted in her now famous paintings.

Permits were revoked and the Laughton's were denied to break ground to begin construction. Now, the Laughton's were stuck with all that land that did nothing but grow beautiful flowers and support tall trees. Now, it was the Laughton's that were the ones unable to defend the custody suit that Sarah brought against them to take back her children.

Sarah and her children made Hopedale Valley their home. She created a pet adoption center in Domenic's name and planted an oak tree in the front lawn of the three story house she bought from the Morris's when they retired to Florida. She even adopted a new cat, another Maine Coon cat that she named, Mr. Green because of his big, green eyes. His green eyes were a reminder that all of her paintings encouraged a greener world and put forth Earth Day as a holiday not only to celebrate once a year but also as a reminder to do something good for the planet every day.

Happy Earth Day

The End