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Normans Kill 

Altamont NY

 

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Autumnal Equinox

this Altamont site is with SE end Watervliet Reservoir... 

hydroelectric dam is with background...

“The Normans Kill is a 45.4-mile-long (73.1 km)^[3] creek in New York's Capital District located in Schenectady and Albanycounties. It flows southeasterly from its source in the town of Duanesburg near Delanson to its mouth at the Hudson Riverin the town of Bethlehem. In the town of Guilderland, the stream is dammed to create the Watervliet Reservoir, a drinking water source for the city of Watervliet and the Town of Guilderland. A one megawatt hydrolectric plant at the dam provides power to pump water to the filtration plant.^[4]

The Normans Kill has a drainage area of over 170 square miles (440 km²),^[5] and includes portions of Schoharie County along with the counties in which the Normans Kill itself flows through.

The Normans Kill has been used historically as a source of water power during colonial times, during which many millssprung up along its banks. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, blocks of ice were cut out of the creek for shipment to the city of New York as a form of early refrigeration. Its name is derived from the Dutch word for a Norwegian, who the Dutch called "North Men or Normans", hence North Man's Stream/Creek" the ethnicity of Albert Andriessen Bradt( originally spelled "Bratt"), an early settler who owned sawmills near the first waterfall of the creek in the early 17th century, and the word kill, Dutch for creek. Earlier names of the stream include^[6] Godyns Kil, Norman's Kill, Normans Kil, and the indigenous place name Ta-wa-sen-tha, Ta-wal-sou-tha, or Tawalsontha. Locals call and spell it Normanskill (one word) Creek” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans_Kill

 

last Fall I initiated activating with drawing charcoal 3 sites with Normans Kill; Selkirk (conjoins Hudson), Albany and Normansville/Delmar)…

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the next 6 posts will be with Normans Kill headwaters near Delanson, then Duanesburg, Princetown, Altamont and Slingerlands sequentially aligning and drawing meandering energy downstream toward Hudson with connecting with the intitiating sites…

 

I found two tales with "Tawasentha" derivations;

Normans Kill watershed area was “Originally called "Tawasentha" (a place of the many dead)…”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans_Kill

and

Iroquois name for a burial ground near mouth of the Normanskill Creek. - https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=1428  

with these times where death is on the doorsteps of all with viral pandemics, fires, flooding, wars, killings and starvations I/we can pause with the context of Onondaga “Tawasentha” reflections?...

 

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Love & Peace with CoCreativity with all...