Please see below (after the transcript and show notes) for links to news and upcoming events.
TRANSCRIPT
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is
Virginia Water Radio for the week of May 7, 2012. Our guest host this week is Emily Whitesell,
who wrote and recorded this episode in 2011 as a Virginia Tech English
Department intern for the Virginia Water Resources Research Center.
This week we feature
a selection from a Virginia-based band that takes its name from the 3rd-highest
mountain in the Commonwealth. Have a
listen for about a minute.
MUSIC.
You’ve
been listening to part of “Banks of New River,” performed by the Whitetop
Mountain Band on their 2008 album, “Bull Plus 10%,” from Arhoolie Records. The melancholy lover in this song sits beside
the New River, a well-known landmark of Southwest Virginia. Situated near the Eastern Continental Divide,
the northward-flowing New distinguishes itself from many other Virginia rivers
that flow south toward the Atlantic Coast.
The 320-mile-long river starts as two streams in North Carolina and
continues its journey through Virginia.
After joining the Kanawha River in West Virginia, water from the New
River continues northward and westward to empty into the Ohio River, then the
Mississippi, and finally the Gulf of Mexico.
For other water sounds and music, and for more Virginia
water information, visit our Web site at virginiawaterradio.org,
or call us at (540) 231-5463. From the
Virginia Water Resources Research Center in Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo,
thanking you for listening, and wishing you health, wisdom, and good water.
SHOW NOTES
Acknowledgments: “Banks of New River” and “Bull Plus 10%” are copyright Whitetop Mountain
Band and Arhoolie Records, used with permission. More information about the Whitetop
Mountain Band is available from their website: http://whitetopmountainband.tripod.com/index.html.
This episode replaces the "Water Sounds and Music" segment of Episode 55, 2-28-11. Patrick Fay helped produce parts of this episode that were recorded in 2011.
This episode replaces the "Water Sounds and Music" segment of Episode 55, 2-28-11. Patrick Fay helped produce parts of this episode that were recorded in 2011.
Sources: Information
on the New River and Whitetop Mountain was taken from the following
sources: Frits Van der Leeden, The Environmental Almanac of Virginia (1998),
Tennyson Press, Lexington, Virginia; Virginia
Explorer (Winter 2000), Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville; and
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, “New River,” accessed at http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing/waterbodies/display.asp?id=163,
5/7/12. Information about the
watersheds into which the New River flows is available from the U.S. EPA’s Surf
Your Watershed Web site at http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm.
Recent Virginia Water
News
For
news relevant to Virginia's water resources, please visit the Virginia Water Central News Grouper,
available online at http://vawatercentralnewsgrouper.wordpress.com/.
Water Meetings and
Other Events
For
events related to Virginia's water resources, please visit the Quick Guide to Virginia Water–related
Conferences, Workshops, and Other Events, online at http://virginiawaterevents.wordpress.com/. The site includes a list of Virginia
government policy and regulatory meetings occurring in the coming week.
