MEDIA ADVISORY
contact: cynthiadnash@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
 

“ISN’T  IT WORTH SAVING?”
Music Video Celebrates Skinners Falls Bridge
Documentary music video inspiring preservation of historic bridge that is under threat of destruction by PennDOT.
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Credits:
Music: Joanne Wasserman Brinkerhoff and POISON LOVE BAND
Producer/Writer: Cynthia Nash
Director/Editor: Emma Joan Morris
Images: provided by friends of Skinners Falls Bridge

(NPS Upper Delaware National Scenic and Recreation Area, Sullivan County, NY, Wayne County, PA ) Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS) is pleased to announce that award-winning filmmaker Emma Joan Morris is contributing her talents to making a music video about the endangered Skinners Falls Bridge  It will feature Poison Love Band’s “Isn’t It Worth Saving”, the theme from “The Crossing” a one act play about the spirit of the bridge, most recently produced for radio by Kathy Geary for WJFF 90.5FM Radio Catskill.

The song was written by Joanne Wasserman Brinkerhoff who with her husband, Dan Brinkerhoff, are Poison Love Band.  It is their first music video and she says,”I wrote this song within the span of an hour or so because I was angry when I heard there were plans to demolish the bridge. The bridge is not just a part of our past that should be honored and preserved, it is a present reminder of our connectedness to our communities.”

Images for the project are being contributed by the many members of the community who cherish the bridge and have been advocating for years for its maintenance and preservation. The Skinners Falls Bridge is on the National Register of Historic Places in two categories, so it does not just belong to the people of the region, but to the entire nation. The video will include headlines from the award-winning weekly The River Reporter, which has been diligently covering the controversy about the bridge.

The video will be on YouTube and distributed widely on social media as yet another effort to elicit a response from Governor Josh Shapiro to come to see the bridge he signed into oblivion based solely on questionable information from PennDOT, meet with its advocates, and discuss the very viable alternative to its imminent destruction.

Morris has family roots in northeastern Pennsylvania and is close friends with producer Cynthia Nash.  Morris has a Sundance award for the documentary “Something Within Me”, an EMMY for “Voices of Sarafina”. “Close Harmony” which she edited won the Oscar for Best Short Documentary.

ASK for permission to embed or other questions to dcs@DamascusCitizens.org
For further information about the ongoing efforts to save the Skinners Falls Bridge please visit our website.