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Polluting Paradise: The Formative Years of Willamette River Pollution Abatement, 1920s-1960s
Location McMenamins Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan Street, Portland.
Starts Monday, January 14 2013 @ 7:00 PM Ends 9:00 PM
Summary
James V. Hillegas-Elting describe how Tom McCall this hour-long color film which helped convince Oregon citizens and legislators to do more to clean up the Willamette.
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Description

“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