Editing Allegheny River (section)

==In popular culture==
Depression-era folk singer Buster Red recorded "Allegheny River", wherein the river is a destructive force throughout life, but not necessarily a malignant one.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/run-all-dry-blues/Allegheny+River.wav | title=Buster Red 78's }}</ref>

Folksinger Pete Seeger's song "Where the Old Allegheny and Monongahela Flow", depicts a character living in a city pining for a return to the Allegheny River.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Num7ngEACAAJ | title=Written on Water: Writings about the Allegheny River | isbn=978-1-936419-30-2 | last1=Ruggieri | first1=Helen | last2=Underhill | first2=Linda | date=2013 | publisher=Mayapple Press }}</ref>

[[Old Crow Medicine Show]] released a song entitled "Allegheny Lullaby" that detailed life along the Allegheny in late 20th century [[Rust Belt]] towns, the river serving as a metaphor for escape.

In 2008, [[Katie Spotz]] became the first person to swim the entire {{cvt|325|mi}} of the Allegheny River; she was accompanied by safety kayaker, James Hendershott.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://triblive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/s_583539.html |title=Ohio woman swimming length of Allegheny River |author=Shuster, Patrick |author2=Garrone, Francine |date=August 18, 2008 |work=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |publisher=Tribune-Review Publishing Company |access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref> The team began at the river's source in Warren, Pennsylvania on July 22 and finished at the "Point" in Downtown Pittsburgh on August 21.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://triblive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/s_584224.html |title=Ohio swimmer completes 325-mile swim of Allegheny |author=Nephin, Dan |date=August 22, 2008 |work=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |publisher=Tribune-Review Publishing Company |access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref>

In 2017 the documentary ''Lake of Betrayal'' was released detailing the struggle of the Seneca Nation over the [[Kinzua Dam]] project on the Allegheny in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3888834/ | title=Lake of Betrayal: The Story of Kinzua Dam | website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>