High Tor

       In the midst of the “Great Depression” Pulitzer prize winning playwright, and Rockland County resident, Maxwell Anderson wrote a play about a young man who wouldn’t sell his cabin on High Tor mountain to developers wanting to extract by dynamite the trap rock for use in construction elsewhere.
       Discouraged, like today, by the politics of the era, Anderson wrote a play about land speculation and a young man who refused to be devoured by our industrial civilization. This young man, who might have been Maxwell Anderson a few years earlier was portrayed in the original Broadway production in the late 30’s by the then young Burgess Meredith.
       It might also be any number of young men or women voting in the five boroughs or suburbs of New York today.
       We are discovering in rehearsals that when a new play is true to its age, it is then usually true to subsequent ages as well.
       In 1939, the play so moved audiences that New York State moved in to stop the destruction of High Tor mountain using the only means it had at the time – buying the land to turn it into the state park it is today.
       We hope our production will contribute to a revived discussion of natural resource ownership – to the richest private bidder or by all the people of the nation.
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