The Archives

A chronological record of stories, dispatches, and histories from across the Allegheny Plateau.

In the rich and complex tapestry of Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) oral tradition, the physical world is more than what meets the e...

After Sky Woman established the earth upon the Great Turtle’s back, her daughter gave birth to twin sons who could not ...

In the beginning, there was no earth as we know it. There was only a vast, dark ocean below and a luminous ...

While the Allegheny National Forest is famed for its sweeping vistas and ancient hemlocks, Seneca tradition warns that the ma...

While the modern history of the Allegheny River is often defined by the engineering of the Kinzua Dam, a much older and more ...

<p data-path-to-node="2">To the casual observer standing at the Big Bend overlook, the Kinzua Dam is a silent concrete monolith. But beneath ...

To look out from Jakes Rocks, high above the looping expanse of the Allegheny Reservoir, is to witness the landscape of the "...

The ecological history of the Allegheny National Forest is often told in two rapid, devastating waves. The first was the grea...

To walk through the Allegheny National Forest today is to wander through a "second-growth" landscape—a resilient, lush ...