River Stories

Oral History Project

Lauren Brown, Director of Land Conservation at New Haven Land Trust, speaks about the work they are doing to preserve valuable property and track migratory patterns of alewives.

Peter Davis, the RiverKeeper, has been cleaning our rivers for eighteen years.

Read, watch and listen
to interviews about our New Haven Rivers

Fox Running, a Quinnipiac Medicine Man, shares some of the local legends of his people.
D.J. King, lobsterman, tells stories about his business and some creatures of the sea.
 
Jim Bussman, Seaboard Fuel, tells about trends and changes he has seen on the waterway.
 
Bob Gryswecz , Historian and Architect, tells about the history of New Haven, its buildings and rivers.
 
Wade Elmer, Plant Pathologist for the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, tells about the troubling new phenomena of sudden wetlands dieback.
 
Joe Taylor, a local historian who collects pictures and uses them to tell the story of a place.
     
     
     
     
   
Locations of visitors to this page