RiverAndEstuary

Writing about Rivers and Estuaries.

Add any photos on the PhotographingPlace/Water page for 8th April.

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[g r a p e z] This is more history of place, but it does concern the Merrimack River. I will warn you that it is not pleasant reading, for it concerns Indian history, and that is never a happy topic in American History. It's called "The Merrimack River Before 1620". Thanks, ~Greg

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[P:Downstream] It looks like a sink trap gone mad, or maybe Exhibit A in a lecture on the intestines. A river defines the city where I live in a way unlike most other cities.

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[Feathers of Hope (Numenius)] Musings on the Sacramento Delta.

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[C. Little, no less] Ditches. ...I am sure the conservancy district employees are hard at work mowing here, mowing there, for months on end, removing the elms, grasses and other unwanted vegetation from the many miles of ditches, with no particular time-table or concern for the nesting habits of ducks.

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[hoarded ordinaries] Yesterday, feeling more restless than depressed, I took the dog walking along the river. The Ashuelot River runs through campus and through Keene; behind various local businesses runs a fringe of semi-abandoned riparian woods, Ashuelot River Park, that offers a quick getaway for town-worn souls. Yesterday was warm and sunny; I walked in short sleeves, shorts, and sandals. The Park was full of mothers with strollers, parents with bicycling children, kissing lovers and roaming herds of bored-eyed teenagers, all moving and congregating in a flowing swirl of human activity.