Forgotten Places and Radical Hope on Philadelphia’s Tidal Schuylkill River

How do we see an urban, industrial river? How do we hear its stories? Who gets to tell them? I first got on the lower, tidal Schuylkill River on October fifth, 2015. With a boat captain, a first mate, and a photographer, I was helping push a floating lab for experiments in sustainability into positi...

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Published inOpen rivers no. Issue Six : Spring 2017
Main Author Bethany Wiggin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2022
Subjects
engagement
public programs
united states
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Summary:How do we see an urban, industrial river? How do we hear its stories? Who gets to tell them? I first got on the lower, tidal Schuylkill River on October fifth, 2015. With a boat captain, a first mate, and a photographer, I was helping push a floating lab for experiments in sustainability into position. Since that day, these questions about how to see and to listen for Philadelphia rivers’ stories have occupied me, a historian trained originally in European literature and in the print culture of the colonial Atlantic world...
ISSN:2471-190X
2471-190X
DOI:10.24926/2471190X.2794