2018
March 2018
Monday 26 March 2018
Mon 26 Mar, 6 pm. Matheson Museum, 513 E University Avenue, Gainesville, 32605-2435. 352-378-2280. Free. Matheson History Museum - [mathesonmuseum][email][events]
This unique program will include a screening of the final version of Matt Keene’s documentary, "Lost Springs," and a celebration honoring the 103rd anniversary of environmentalist Marjorie Harris Carr’s birth. In 2017, the Matheson offered a screening of an earlier version of the documentary.
"Lost Springs" chronicles Gainesville artist Margaret Tolbert’s abstract expressionist paintings of the lost springs of the Ocklawaha River. Longtime Florida Defenders of the Environment President Marjorie Harris Carr fought for decades to preserve and restore the Ocklawaha River, but she was unable to see it run free before her death in 1997. Today, the river remains dammed as part of the defunct Cross Florida Barge Canal. Every three to five years, when the water levels are lowered at the artificially managed Rodman Pool near George Kirkpatrick Dam, the springs along the Ocklawaha River come back to life for a short period of time before they are flooded again when the water levels are raised.
The March 26 screening at the Matheson marks the public release of the documentary online as a birthday present for Marjorie Harris Carr. A discussion of the lost springs and Marjorie Carr’s environmental legacy will follow the film screening.