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Kim Haines-Eitzen is a professor in Near Eastern Studies and Religious Studies at Cornell. A student of photography (at Tompkins Cortland Community College) and natural sound recording (at the Lab of Ornithology), Kim is currently working on a book about desert sounds and the religious imagination in late antiquity.

Susan C. Larkin, a retired middle school teacher, has been studying photography at Tompkins Cortland Community College since 2005. She is a member of the State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca.

Timothy Larkin is a software engineer and a semi-retired member of the IT staff at Cornell's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He has lived in Caroline since 1969, but never understood where the Brooktondale railway trestle had been until he started working on this web site.

You can contact us with questions or suggestions at
info@toursixmilecreek.org

Acknowledgements

Our exhibit is dedicated to Art Volbrecht, former Caroline Historian, and Molly Adams, who cared very much about history and the environment.

We are grateful to many people for their help: Barbara Kone, Jennifer Johnson, Ted Sobel, Barry Adams, Ed and Dorothy Buechel, Ann Signore, Peter Marks, Gene Endres, Mike Mahool, Kim Case, Clarene Stephens, Linda Moesch, Lois Lounsbery, Alison Maceli, Cynthia Cantu, Donna Eschenbrenner, Keith Millman, Mark Grimm, Christine J. Shanks, Ben Curtis, Roxanna Johnston, and Harry Littell.

Pictures

Many of the historical pictures in this display can be found in the History Room in Slaterville Springs, NY.Pictures on the Artifacts Page of ambered glass are from Clarene Stephens. Pictures were also provided by Ann Signore and Ted Sobel.

Historical pictures of the dams closer to Ithaca are from the History Center in Tompkins County. 30 ft dam (N3.1040), pipe from 30 foot dam (N3.1228), Van Nattas Dam (N3.1568), Wells Falls, (N6.204a), worker guniting 60 Ft. Dam.

Some of our historical sounds come from www.freesound.org.                  

  • 0341 Croquet_game.wav by bmoreno | License: Attribution
  • antique-sawmill-01 by dcsimon | License: Attribution
  • Menziken Sawmill.wav by karo2fel | License: Sampling+
  • SE Horse & wagon with lots of wooden & metal rattle.wav by SoundEnsemble | License: Attribution
  • PassingCar02.wav by Pingel | License: Creative Commons 0
  • At Broadsands overlooking Hookhills Viaduct on the Dartmouth Steam Railway by konakaboom | License: Attribution Noncommercial
  • Cars passing ona quiet road by dmacara | License: Creative Commons 0
  • Horses.WAV by Ornery | License: Creative Commons 0
  • Railway signal bell: TM Books and Video and The Illinois Railway Museum.

Most of the present-day pictures were taken by Susan C. Larkin. Most of the present-day sounds were recorded by Kim Haines-Eitzen. The computer programming to create this display was completed by Tim Larkin.