BRATTLEBORO—In 2017, after searching for three decades, a master diver rediscovered a documented but long-lost Indigenous relic in the cove at the confluence of the Connecticut and West rivers.
These petroglyphs — etched carvings in rock, made by Indigenous peoples thousands of years ago — have been submerged for a century, under water displaced by alterations to the river’s flow from hydroelectric power stations upstream.... Continue reading story
BRATTLEBORO—In 2017, after searching for three decades, a master diver rediscovered a documented but long-lost Indigenous relic in the cove at the confluence of the Connecticut and West rivers.
These petroglyphs — etched carvings in rock, made by Indigenous peoples thousands of years ago — have been submerged for a century, under water displaced by alterations to the river’s flow from hydroelectric power stations upstream.... Continue reading story
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