How the Catskills Changed America

FAIN: TD-50110-09

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY 11201-8301)
Raphael David Silver (Project Director: February 2009 to July 2010)

Scripting of a two-hour documentary film examining the history of the Catskill region from 1800 to the present.

A SCRIPT FOR A TWO HOUR DOCUMENTARY THAT WILL EXAMINE THE HISTORY OF THE CATSKILL REGION SINCE 1800. THE DOCUMENTARY WILL DESCRIBE HOW THE PROXIMITY OF THE CATSKILLS TO THE CENTER OF ARTISTIC AND FINANCIAL POWER IN AMERICA HAS DEFINED ITS CHARACTER AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURA HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES,