High Tor
Friday, August 1, at 7:30 pm
The play that saved a mountain.
We are using "High Tor" to celebrate an early environmental success and to better understand current "deals."
In 1936 Rockland County resident, and Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Maxwell Anderson, heard the blasting and saw the trap rock trucks arriving daily to carry away the Palisade Mountains for use in construction elsewhere.
So he wrote a play about a young man who wouldn't sell his inherited mountain homestead to developers trying to acquire the whole area through shady land transactions. With help from the ghosts of Captain Henry Hudson's crew on one thunderous and lightning-streaked night on the summit, he navigates his rights across generations divided by centuries to achieve what we all want - peace, love. security and a life with meaning.
