Peter Mathiessen Wheelwright

In 1917, during reservoir construction in the Catskill hamlet of Gilboa, a young paleontologist, Miss Winifred Goldring, identified fossils from an ancient forest flooded 350-400 million years ago -- when the earth's botanical explosion of oxygen opened new paths towards human evolution. Since the reservoir water was needed for NYC, the fossils were flooded again, along with the doomed town. A mix of fact and fiction, The Door-Man follows three generations...