397 99th Street, Niagara Falls, NY
The Love Canal was once an average neighborhood, home to hundreds of families.
A distant memory surrounded by a fence is all that remains of what the community
was like before news of the toxic waste was revealed to the public in the late
1970s.
This series depicts one family, one of the hundreds who lived their lives, day in
and day out, unknowingly, on an industrial wasteland. This was a family whose
lives were disrupted and shattered by the devastating news of the toxic
chemicals surrounding their home.
The small household of four, my mother, grandmother, grandfather, and Aunt Barbra,
was changed by the devastation of the environmental catastrophe. The abrupt evacuation
in 1978, forced them to say goodbye to their “little green house” and their lives, as they
knew it. All that remains is a memory.
Tricia Butski
The Love Canal was once an average neighborhood, home to hundreds of families.
A distant memory surrounded by a fence is all that remains of what the community
was like before news of the toxic waste was revealed to the public in the late
1970s.
This series depicts one family, one of the hundreds who lived their lives, day in
and day out, unknowingly, on an industrial wasteland. This was a family whose
lives were disrupted and shattered by the devastating news of the toxic
chemicals surrounding their home.
The small household of four, my mother, grandmother, grandfather, and Aunt Barbra,
was changed by the devastation of the environmental catastrophe. The abrupt evacuation
in 1978, forced them to say goodbye to their “little green house” and their lives, as they
knew it. All that remains is a memory.
Tricia Butski