Sunday, September 24 @ Voorhees Hall #105 7:00pm
Riverkeeper – Sara Leavitt (Brooklyn, New York) - In this short documentary,
Captain Bill Sheehan, the founder of Hackensack Riverkeeper, who has dedicat-
ed his life to preserving and protecting the New Jersey Meadowlands, takes the
viewer on a ride through areas of the Meadowlands that visitors never see—the
long polluted and ignored “swamp” that is now a thriving, industrialized ecosys-
tem and a haven for birds and wildlife. 2017; 9 min. With an introduction and
Q+A session with Director Sara Leavitt!
Saving The Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport – Scott Morris (Chatham,
New Jersey) - In 1959, a successful grassroots effort was launched to defeat a
plan to build the world’s largest jetport on 10,000 acres of wetlands in the heart
of New Jersey. Director Scott Morris retraces the extraordinary, 9-year-long
fight to save the Great Swamp, a fight that began in a New Jersey high school,
and was finally resolved by an Act of Congress in 1968. The battle to protect
the Great Swamp is now seen and studied as a model for the environmental
activism today, and the story has not been told in depth until now. Narrated by
Blythe Danner. 2016; 64 min. With an introduction and Q+A session with Direc-
tor Scott Morris and Producer Larry Fast!
Watch the trailer for Saving The Great Swamp: Battle To Defeat...
NJ STAGE 2017 - Vol. 4 No. 8
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