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Meanding Through Time: The Connecticut River’s Strange Journeys After Lake Hitchcock
$20.00
GCC Main Campus
The Connecticut River in Franklin County has many mysteries! Just under the French King Bridge it takes a 90 degree bend to the west, ignoring its intended southerly path to the sea! Along this westerly trend are found riverbed holes over 100 feet deep, plus an abandoned waterfall sculpted cliff at Barton Cove. The River even went meandering into Greenfield’s Meadows—leaving a meander channel and oxbow lake (now swamp) along College Drive. Amazing and unexpected! Join geology professor Richard Little to follow the ancient paths of the Connecticut and discover the reasons behind these intriguing river mysteries that are the result of Glacial Lake Hitchcock. Our journey will take us from Greenfield Community College to Gill and Northfield. We will have short walks to view landscapes and study them on maps to understand how and why the land around us has changed. No transportation provided (meet at GCC and plan to drive your own car to our desinations); bring a snack and drink.
Presented By...
Educator and armored mud ball evangelist Richard Little has BA and MA degrees from Clark University and the University of Southern California, respectively, and is Professor Emeritus at GCC where he taught geology for over 40 years. He has written two books and produced two DVDs about Connecticut Valley geology and continues to lecture and host educational geological tours around the world.
