Some History from the Confluence
2020 • 18" x 25" x 2” • mixed media with found artifacts
“Treasures” rescued from the intersection of the Chenango and Susquehanna Rivers in Binghamton, New York. Expert research by Richard Barons.
In early November, 1973, I walked out the back door of the Roberson Museum on my lunch hour. On the riverbank in the mud was an 1880s clay tobacco pipe (no. 17). After that, I spent many weekend days wading across the rivers to retrieve the “trash” that had been dumped upstream over the past 200 years.
—Philip Carey (2020)