An Island Out of Time - Film Screening/Q&A with the Author and Filmmaker

A film that is both 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—all this seen through the lens of the Marshall family of Smith Island, Maryland.

Tom Horton is a writer for the Bay Journal. He wrote for the Baltimore Sun on environmental issues from 1972 through 2006. He is author of several books on the Chesapeake Bay, including Bay Country and Island Out of Time, and numerous articles for publications that include National Geographic, Rolling Stone and the New York Times. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. He teaches writing and environmental topics at Salisbury University.