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Interpreting Happy Valley: Photographer Kevin Reilly
Town & Gown Magazine Artist of the Month
By Hannah Pollock
Photographer Kevin D. Reilly pulled into the Fraser Street garage on an overcast and at times rainy fall afternoon. He looked up at the sky and questioned if it would clear. He hoped the weather forecast would be accurate and he wouldn’t lose the perfect lighting.
The clouds parted and as the sun came out, Reilly trekked to College Avenue with a ladder and camera equipment. Like a true Happy Valley resident, he remembers the day—Oct. 21, 2016—because it was the Friday before Penn State blocked a field goal kick against Ohio State.
Standing atop the ladder on the campus side of the street, he snapped a shot of a building. He climbed up and down the ladder from Burrowes Street to Garner Street, capturing every foot of College Avenue. The photos he took that Friday are now showcased in his “Impressions of Happy Valley” collection.
Reilly grew up in State College and, like many, has seen the town change over the years. As the buildings and businesses he knew began changing, Reilly felt called to do something.
“I grew up walking College Avenue pretending to be a college student,” he says of his high school days. “I have to photograph this for posterity’s sake, for history and who knows, maybe we’ll be able to do something with it.”
