The Black Bear Film Festival

The Longest Continuously-Running Film Festival in Northeast Pennsylvania

Schedule Of Events

Tickets for Opening Night Silver and Black Gala Reception

6:00pm - Silver and Black Gala Reception

7:30pm - Burying the Hatchet - The Tom Quick Story

Documentary

Produced by Sean Strub, Written and Directed by Christopher King, Associate Producer, Daniel Strongwalker Thomas

For more than 200 years, the Borough of Milford, a small county seat in northeast Pennsylvania, venerated Tom Quick Jr., who was in 1733 the first white child born in the region. Quick was famous for having murdered Delaware (Lenni Lenape) Indians in the upper Delaware River Valley, after having witnessed his father’s death at the hands of the Lenape.

In the decades following, Tom Quick became part of local lore, lionized in books, articles, songs and on stage. In 1889, an eight-foot zinc obelisk monument was erected in Milford in his honor. Over time, the monument increasingly became a point of deep conflict and re-evaluation, especially in recent years.