These are 3 pictures taken from the crew team’s boat house on the Lehigh River. The picture in the center shows the railroad tracks which pass over the river (the train horn can be heard from campus). The picture on the bottom shows the view looking downstream; if you were to follow that, it would lead you to the dam in downtown Easton, which we paddled past at the beginning of our kayak trip. In this part of the river, the current is not very strong and the river is mostly flat, so we are able to row both upstream and downstream with little difficulty. One thing that I also found interesting was the spraypaint on the rock support towers for the train tracks. Each year the seniors on the crew team paint the year and their names (or initials) on the stone.
I think this a great example of how rivers connect to us. The tradition of the crew team seniors reminds me of traditions related to rivers in our readings. For example, how fisheries would donate one haul of fish to widows and orphans every season.