The Susquehanna River moves with a kind of quiet authority across Pennsylvania, carrying mountain runoff and spring rains through valleys that have seen centuries of human life along its banks, from Indigenous trade routes to canal-era commerce and modern recreation. Its broad, shallow waters glint in the sunlight like shifting glass, bordered by forested slopes, old stone towns, and farmland that owes its fertility to this ancient waterway. In many ways, the Susquehanna isn’t just a river—it is