The Swamp And Mr Harkins

Year Published: 1980

Creator: SPRAGER (HART) G

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Introduces an old trapper who recalls past years when he hunted alligators and lived off the wildlife in the wilderness swamps of the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana. Reveals that his problems now are caused by a dam built 20 years ago which has changed the river so much tat floods a foot or more deep come into his house. States that he is too old to get a job, can't afford the city and doesn't want to depenon his children, so he tenaciously struggles to stay in his lifelong home.