KINZUA

One rainy Winter day, I picked up the phone to hear the excited voice of our Seneca friend in Jimmersontown, a resettlement for displaced Indians, proclaiming the second coming, as the old ones had predicted, the Allegheny River returning to its original banks, the flood waters gone. The Kinzua Reservoir had been drawn down revealing a valley that had been submerged for 30 years, Reservation lands secured by treaty with Washington in 1794 for “as long as the sun shines and the rivers flow.” This photo essay is a resurvey of a valley that a 1957 Carnegie Museum study, preparing the way for the Kinzua Dam, declared had nothing of value. But beneath the man made lake, the jet skis and cabin cruisers of buoyant weekenders, there still runs a river.

CURRENT EXHIBITS



SUGAR RUN 4
 

BONE RUN
 

QUAKER BRIDGE
 

ONOVILLE BRIDGE





ONOVILLE
 

SUGAR RUN 2
 

QUAKER
 

SUGAR RUN 1





 

 
 


 







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