“Fifty years ago, Portland’s KGW-TV aired a gripping documentary--Pollution in Paradise--that succinctly summarized the condition of Oregon’s air and water that had become degraded as a result of more than a century of intensive resource extraction, industrialization, and urbanization. [James V. Hillegas-Elting will describe how] Tom McCall produced and narrated the hour-long color film which helped convinceOregoncitizens and legislators that much more could be done to balance environmental and economic considerations to help clean up theWillametteRiver.” Free and open to the public. Presented by theOregonEncyclopedia. More info:

http://blog.oregonlive.com/my-portland/2012/12/polluting_paradise_the_formati.html