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Two new videos to premiere during Coast Day 4:21 p.m., Sept. 21, 2006--Two new videos, one on the devastating March 1962 storm that swept the Delmarva coastline and the other tracing the history of the Delaware Bay oyster industry, will premiere during the annual Coast Day celebration from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 1, at the University of Delaware's Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes. Coast Day, held rain or shine, is sponsored by the University of Delaware's College of Marine and Earth Studies and the Delaware Sea Grant College Program. The video “The '62 Storm-A Shared Response,” created and produced by Anew Inc. of Wilmington, will be screened at 12:30 p.m. in the Harbor Room of the Virden Center. The video features firsthand accounts from people who lived through the damaging three-day Northeaster- often called “Delaware's Coastal Storm of the Century”-that claimed lives, homes and property along the coastline throughout the mid-Atlantic. Included in the production is historic footage, still shots and an analysis of the meteorology of the storm and its impacts on the coastal regions. Funding for the video was provided by the Delaware Humanities Forum and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, with partial funding by Anew, Inc. The video premiere will kick off the day's Coast Storms Lecture Series, with Louis W. Uccellini, director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, speaking at 1:30 p.m. on “Northeasters”; Gary S. Szatkowski of the National Weather Service at 2:15 p.m. on “Hurricanes”; and Michael Powell, coordinating officer for the National Flood Insurance Program in Delaware, at 3 p.m. on “Flood Insurance: What You Need to Know.” The lectures will be in the Harbor Room of the Virden Center. A second Anew, Inc. video, entitled “White Gold,” will be screened at 3 p.m. in Room 202 of Cannon Laboratory, as part of the Delaware Bay Lecture Series. The video looks at the oyster industry, past and present, on the Delaware Bay. It also features interviews with oystermen and historians, and includes footage of the restored oyster schooner Maggie Myers out of Bowers Beach. This video was funded by the Delaware Humanities Forum and the production company. The Delaware Bay Lecture Series will begin at 1 p.m. with a presentation “Water Quality of the Delaware River and Bay Over the Past 100 Years: From Good to Bad to Good Again” by Jonathan H. Sharp, UD professor of marine and earth studies. The Lecture Series will continue at 2 p.m. with James Valle discussing “The Kent County Oyster Fleet,” and the “White Gold” video premiere at 3 p.m. Both lectures and the screening will be in Room 202 of Cannon Laboratory. |
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