John Stewart has a song clled "Mother Country" which refers to the flood. It gets discussed every now and again one his list "bloodlines". This is what one bloodliner said recently: There is a National Historical Site dedicated to the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Who would want to visit a museum dedicated to the dead? I did on two occasions. I was at the very site of the earthen dam 100 years to the day in 1989 in torrential rains similar to weather a century earlier. The foundation of the old earthen dam survived, but the V-like rupture in the center still exists. Water is channelled around the right-end spillway today, the very spillway that was clogged with floating logs and debris in 1889. It was a sobering moment in my life, as I imagined the event 100 years distant. As it was too early, the musuem was still closed. I missed a real tribute to the victims. I revisited the site when my son was six. We toured the museum. The old photographs abound. So too does a memorial naming every soul who perished in the waters.