SU's Environmental Studies Colloquia Series Continues With a Screening of 'An Island Out of Time'

SALISBURY, MD---Salisbury University’s Environmental Studies Colloquium Series continues with a screening of the film An Island Out of Time by award-winning author and SU instructor Tom Horton.

Also featuring a reading by Horton from his 1996 book that inspired the movie, the presentation is 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, in Perdue Hall’s Bennett Family Auditorium.

Co-produced with Dave Harp and Sandy Cannon-Brown, the film focuses on Smith Island, MD, couple Mary Ada and Dwight Marshall (“whose lives personify the Chesapeake Bay’s watermen, seafood harvesting culture and history,” Horton said) and their children who have chosen to leave the island physically, but not emotionally.

The Marshalls struggle between staying on the island, where their family has lived for 300 years, or starting a new life on the mainland. Horton calls the film a “celebration and elegy for a place beset with rising sea levels and erosion, pollution and harvest restrictions, and young people seeking opportunities older generations of islanders never dreamed of.”

The movie earned a standing ovation following its debut at the 2018 Chesapeake Film Festival. Its TV premiere is scheduled during Maryland Public Television’s annual “Chesapeake Bay Week” in April.

Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Department, admission is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-543-8105 or visit the SU website.