In 1942, Anderson helped organize and served as the chairman of the Rockland County Committee To Save High Tor, which helped raise money to purchase the property in 1943 for the creation of a public park. Imaginative and as comic as it is poetic in both spirit and expression, High Tor is a singular accomplishment, giving rare grace to this theatrical season in New York. In its decision the circle celebrates the advent of the first distinguished fantasy by an American in many years. High Tor received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the best American play of the 1936–1937 season. The production moved to Broadway ten days later in January 1937, where it played 171 performances. It was first presented onstage in Cleveland, Ohio, in December 1936, with Burgess Meredith (Anderson's neighbor in Rockland County) and Peggy Ashcroft in the lead roles. The play also shares the plot element of a ghostly crew of Dutch sailors on the Hudson with Washington Irving's short story Rip Van Winkle.Īnderson began writing the play in May 1936. The story was inspired by the real life controversy over quarrying the palisades along the lower Hudson. The play is named for a summit overlooking the Tappan Zee portion of New York's Hudson River, near where Anderson lived in Rockland County.
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