Circles and Cycles – Working the Monongahela River Towboats: A Personal Portrait
Posted by Dave Biles on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Circles and Cycles – Working the Monongahela River Towboats: A Personal Portrait A river is not defined by its banks. If it were, a simple line drawing would suffice to delineate it. People who work on it and live along its banks tell us what the Monongahela River is: it is about the people as much as the geography. This was a valley of steel and is still a valley of coal. The river defines the charÂacter of the valley and affects people in ways they always aren’t...read more