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
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BONE RUN
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QUAKER BRIDGE
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ONOVILLE BRIDGE
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ONOVILLE
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SUGAR RUN 2
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QUAKER
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SUGAR RUN 1
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