GUEST APPEARANCE: The happy accidental daylighting of Castle Creek |
GENEVA — The authenticity within written history is the account of mankind’s myth or truth. Earth’s geography — the chasms, contours, crevasses, watersheds — tells a hydrological and morphological story to a locus. And placements of these within our community define deeply who and what we are.
When I first considered Castle Creek I did not yet have any inkling of a concept toward a retrospective in my hometown, to celebrate anything other than Seneca Lake. That revelation is now only superseded — and celebrated in catharsis — by an archaeologist’s exposition.
To say that the partially nowhere path of our creek’s past discourse was exonerated that November day — 80 years after interment — now becomes part of our narrative. Not for its length but in a magnitude so fitting to be what we mostly didn’t know or remember, and often insufficient enough to ever be........