For those just tuning in, I created an interactive map of sites along the Park River last year. If you are curious about its documented history, go take a look.

Please do not let the phrase “it flooded so they buried it” pass your lips. That’s a woefully incomplete narrative that omits facts and most of Hartford’s relationship with the river.

Here is what a portion of the Park River’s South Branch looks like today, in September 2020.

It wears autumn well, but don’t let that distract you from how miles of concrete were poured out to contain nature.

Humans were not meant to interfere.