When the word “creek” comes to mind, one will likely think of many things. A warm summer day spent dipping your feet in the cool water, childhood games of building rafts, and hours spent relaxing and listening to the babbling of the water and the calls of the various critters who call it home. However, did you ever consider the possibility of burying a creek, forcing it to flow through subterranean pipes, hiding it from the surface and denying it the light of the sun, eventually destined to be forgotten by the world at large? As unconventional as it may seem, this is exactly what has happened in many American cities in a process referred to as culverting. However, in some cases, local efforts can make us aware of these secret streams. In some parks of Grand Rapids, MI, one can find green sound-boxes such as these,
