Nine Mile Run Viewfinder, Hunter Park

40.447933, -79.875735

From the corner of Hunter & James Walk up (North) on Hunter Street Passing the basketball court where grew up shooting hoops After the slope upward to the field, turn left, Walking between the bleachers and the backstop Follow the concrete path to approximately the center of the field Look for the Viewfinder here, in the ground What do you see / hear / smell? This is the headwaters of Nine Mile Run What is a Headwaters?, you might ask I too wondered I understand it as the source of the stream, which there are a few, for Nine Mile Run; It is also the farthest point from the confluence, where it meets the Monongahela River So, I ask the Source: What are you? Who are you? How do you produce water to become a stream? Are you a spring bubbling under this football field? What rocks are under there with you? And what happened here before this was made a field? What were the contours of the land? What plants grew here? What were the names of the people who walked here and had a relationship with you, and the buried stream? And do you miss the sun?