UPPER DELAWARE REGION — The Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS) has announced that award-winning filmmaker Emma Joan Morris is contributing her talents to making a music video about the endangered Skinners Falls Bridge.

The video 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. The play was most recently produced for radio by Kathy Geary for Radio Catskill 90.5 FM.  

The song was written by Joanne Wasserman Brinkerhoff, who, with her husband Dan Brinkerhoff, comprise Poison Love Band. It is their first music video, and she said,”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 River Reporter, which has been diligently covering the controversy about the bridge.

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

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

For further information about the ongoing efforts to save the Skinners Falls Bridge, visit www.damascuscitizensforsustainability.org.