About WATERMARK
The poems in this collection follow the path of the “great flood,” from the time prior to the perfect storm of events resulting in the disaster to the devastating aftermath and the reclamation of a bustling industrial city. The poems describe how a dam failure caused a 40-foot wave of water to crash down the Allegheny Mountain, picking up houses, livestock, train cars, people, and wiping out the hillside towns on its way to Johnstown. The voices of the unidentified victims tell the flood story in the first two sections; their circumstances and lives imagined from morgue entries. The narrative continues in the last two sections against the backdrop of recovery and renewal, in the voices of survivors, aid workers, and historical figures such as Clara Barton and train engineer, John Hess. Watermark is a lyric narrative of this country’s largest and certainly the most dramatic flood of the 19th century, told from the perspective of those whose lives it claimed and those who lived to tell the tale.
About WATERMARK
The poems in this collection follow the path of the “great flood,” from the time prior to the perfect storm of events resulting in the disaster to the devastating aftermath and the reclamation of a bustling industrial city. The poems describe how a dam failure caused a 40-foot wave of water to crash down the Allegheny Mountain, picking up houses, livestock, train cars, people, and wiping out the hillside towns on its way to Johnstown. The voices of the unidentified victims tell the flood story in the first two sections; their circumstances and lives imagined from morgue entries. The narrative continues in the last two sections against the backdrop of recovery and renewal, in the voices of survivors, aid workers, and historical figures such as Clara Barton and train engineer, John Hess. Watermark is a lyric narrative of this country’s largest and certainly the most dramatic flood of the 19th century, told from the perspective of those whose lives it claimed and those who lived to tell the tale.
About WATERMARK
The poems in this collection follow the path of the “great flood,” from the time prior to the perfect storm of events resulting in the disaster to the devastating aftermath and the reclamation of a bustling industrial city. The poems describe how a dam failure caused a 40-foot wave of water to crash down the Allegheny Mountain, picking up houses, livestock, train cars, people, and wiping out the hillside towns on its way to Johnstown. The voices of the unidentified victims tell the flood story in the first two sections; their circumstances and lives imagined from morgue entries. The narrative continues in the last two sections against the backdrop of recovery and renewal, in the voices of survivors, aid workers, and historical figures such as Clara Barton and train engineer, John Hess. Watermark is a lyric narrative of this country’s largest and certainly the most dramatic flood of the 19th century, told from the perspective of those whose lives it claimed and those who lived to tell the tale.
About WATERMARK
The poems in this collection follow the path of the “great flood,” from the time prior to the perfect storm of events resulting in the disaster to the devastating aftermath and the reclamation of a bustling industrial city. The poems describe how a dam failure caused a 40-foot wave of water to crash down the Allegheny Mountain, picking up houses, livestock, train cars, people, and wiping out the hillside towns on its way to Johnstown. The voices of the unidentified victims tell the flood story in the first two sections; their circumstances and lives imagined from morgue entries. The narrative continues in the last two sections against the backdrop of recovery and renewal, in the voices of survivors, aid workers, and historical figures such as Clara Barton and train engineer, John Hess. Watermark is a lyric narrative of this country’s largest and certainly the most dramatic flood of the 19th century, told from the perspective of those whose lives it claimed and those who lived to tell the tale.
About WATERMARK
The poems in this collection follow the path of the “great flood,” from the time prior to the perfect storm of events resulting in the disaster to the devastating aftermath and the reclamation of a bustling industrial city. The poems describe how a dam failure caused a 40-foot wave of water to crash down the Allegheny Mountain, picking up houses, livestock, train cars, people, and wiping out the hillside towns on its way to Johnstown. The voices of the unidentified victims tell the flood story in the first two sections; their circumstances and lives imagined from morgue entries. The narrative continues in the last two sections against the backdrop of recovery and renewal, in the voices of survivors, aid workers, and historical figures such as Clara Barton and train engineer, John Hess. Watermark is a lyric narrative of this country’s largest and certainly the most dramatic flood of the 19th century, told from the perspective of those whose lives it claimed and those who lived to tell the tale.
About WATERMARK
The poems in this collection follow the path of the “great flood,” from the time prior to the perfect storm of events resulting in the disaster to the devastating aftermath and the reclamation of a bustling industrial city. The poems describe how a dam failure caused a 40-foot wave of water to crash down the Allegheny Mountain, picking up houses, livestock, train cars, people, and wiping out the hillside towns on its way to Johnstown. The voices of the unidentified victims tell the flood story in the first two sections; their circumstances and lives imagined from morgue entries. The narrative continues in the last two sections against the backdrop of recovery and renewal, in the voices of survivors, aid workers, and historical figures such as Clara Barton and train engineer, John Hess. Watermark is a lyric narrative of this country’s largest and certainly the most dramatic flood of the 19th century, told from the perspective of those whose lives it claimed and those who lived to tell the tale.
About WATERMARK
The poems in this collection follow the path of the “great flood,” from the time prior to the perfect storm of events resulting in the disaster to the devastating aftermath and the reclamation of a bustling industrial city. The poems describe how a dam failure caused a 40-foot wave of water to crash down the Allegheny Mountain, picking up houses, livestock, train cars, people, and wiping out the hillside towns on its way to Johnstown. The voices of the unidentified victims tell the flood story in the first two sections; their circumstances and lives imagined from morgue entries. The narrative continues in the last two sections against the backdrop of recovery and renewal, in the voices of survivors, aid workers, and historical figures such as Clara Barton and train engineer, John Hess. Watermark is a lyric narrative of this country’s largest and certainly the most dramatic flood of the 19th century, told from the perspective of those whose lives it claimed and those who lived to tell the tale.
About WATERMARK
The poems in this collection follow the path of the “great flood,” from the time prior to the perfect storm of events resulting in the disaster to the devastating aftermath and the reclamation of a bustling industrial city. The poems describe how a dam failure caused a 40-foot wave of water to crash down the Allegheny Mountain, picking up houses, livestock, train cars, people, and wiping out the hillside towns on its way to Johnstown. The voices of the unidentified victims tell the flood story in the first two sections; their circumstances and lives imagined from morgue entries. The narrative continues in the last two sections against the backdrop of recovery and renewal, in the voices of survivors, aid workers, and historical figures such as Clara Barton and train engineer, John Hess. Watermark is a lyric narrative of this country’s largest and certainly the most dramatic flood of the 19th century, told from the perspective of those whose lives it claimed and those who lived to tell the tale.
About WATERMARK
The poems in this collection follow the path of the “great flood,” from the time prior to the perfect storm of events resulting in the disaster to the devastating aftermath and the reclamation of a bustling industrial city. The poems describe how a dam failure caused a 40-foot wave of water to crash down the Allegheny Mountain, picking up houses, livestock, train cars, people, and wiping out the hillside towns on its way to Johnstown. The voices of the unidentified victims tell the flood story in the first two sections; their circumstances and lives imagined from morgue entries. The narrative continues in the last two sections against the backdrop of recovery and renewal, in the voices of survivors, aid workers, and historical figures such as Clara Barton and train engineer, John Hess. Watermark is a lyric narrative of this country’s largest and certainly the most dramatic flood of the 19th century, told from the perspective of those whose lives it claimed and those who lived to tell the tale.
About WATERMARK
The poems in this collection follow the path of the “great flood,” from the time prior to the perfect storm of events resulting in the disaster to the devastating aftermath and the reclamation of a bustling industrial city. The poems describe how a dam failure caused a 40-foot wave of water to crash down the Allegheny Mountain, picking up houses, livestock, train cars, people, and wiping out the hillside towns on its way to Johnstown. The voices of the unidentified victims tell the flood story in the first two sections; their circumstances and lives imagined from morgue entries. The narrative continues in the last two sections against the backdrop of recovery and renewal, in the voices of survivors, aid workers, and historical figures such as Clara Barton and train engineer, John Hess. Watermark is a lyric narrative of this country’s largest and certainly the most dramatic flood of the 19th century, told from the perspective of those whose lives it claimed and those who lived to tell the tale.