many varied grandparents and great-grandparents came to the area same as tens of thousands of others did in the Eighteen-Hundred-and-Industrialization times: from elsewhere, to work in the mills and factories that surged along and over the Immaculate, powered by the current. The water flowed in through turbines and out through waste and exhaust pipes that brought inventive new colors and temperatures and textures to the river’s ecosystem.
