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Take Note: "Lake of Betrayal: The Story of the Kinzua Dam," with Scott Sackett and Paul Lamont

On Thursday, January 4 at 8:00pm, WPSU-TV will broadcast the PBS documentary, “Lake of Betrayal: The Story of Kinzua Dam” about the history of the Kinzua Dam in Warren County, Pennsylvania. 

When the dam was built in the 1960’s to curb flooding along the Allegheny River, the US Government broke a treaty with Native American Seneca Nation that George Washington had signed in order to confiscate some 10,000 acres of Seneca land. Whole neighborhoods were burned and flooded to form a reservoir, displacing the Seneca from their homes and forests.

On this edition of Take Note, WPSU’s Kristine Allen speaks with Scott Sackett and Paul Lamont, who co-wrote the PBS documentary, “Lake of Betrayal.”

Lake of Betrayal on Facebook

Paul Lamont on IMDB

Scott Sackett on IMDB

Kristine Allen is Program Director of WPSU-FM. She also files feature stories for WPSU on the arts, culture, science, and more. When she's not at WPSU, Kris enjoys playing folk fiddle, acting, singing and portrait-sketching. She is also a self-confessed "science geek." Kris started working in public radio in college, at age 17, and says she "just couldn't stop."
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