River Tales: Stories from Our Waterway Traditions
What is your relationship with the watershed?
Bartram’s Garden wants to highlight our community’s cultural associations and positive relationships with the Delaware River Watershed, the rivers, lakes, and creeks in PA, NJ, and DE.
Share your stories about your personal, familial, and cultural relationships with the watershed to help create a public archive of experiences with the watershed.
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Share Your Story
Tell us about your personal, familial, and cultural relationship with the Delaware River Watershed to be part of a new digital archive showcasing community relationships with the rivers, lakes, and creeks in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Submissions can be written, audio, video, or any creative format.
Use the form below to submit your story. The digital archive showcasing all submissions will be posted on the Bartram’s Garden website in Fall 2024, with ongoing updates for new submissions.
What should I say?
You can include any stories that feel relevant to you, but if you need help getting started, try using the questions below to guide your submission:
- How has your family or community spent time at the Delaware River watershed? (These are rivers, lakes, creeks in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.)
- Do you have any familial or cultural traditions that you do at the water?
- What are your cultural associations with water?
I need help submitting my story.
If you are interested in submitting a story but need help doing so, please contact riverprogram@bartramsgarden.org.
Bartram’s Garden staff will also be recording stories from program participants at upcoming river programs in Summer 2024.