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TRANSCRIPT
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is
Virginia Water Radio for the week of September 3, 2012.
This week, we feature a traditional song about a prominent
geographic feature found at the southwestern tip of Virginia and at
the top of each Virginia Water Radio
episode. Have a listen for about 45
seconds.
MUSIC.
You’ve been listening to part of “Cumberland Gap,” performed
by
Dwight Diller and Timothy Seaman on the 2004 CD “Virginia Wildlife,”
from Pine Wind Music. Dating at least
from the Civil War and widely recorded, the song refers to the gap in
Cumberland Mountain at the far southwestern tip of Lee County, Virginia, where
Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee meet.
For centuries, the gap provided passage through the mountains for native
peoples, and after European settlement it was the opening through which
hundreds of thousands of settlers took the Wilderness Road from Virginia to
western territories. For millions of
years before those human passages, geologic movements, water, wind, and perhaps
the impact of a meteorite were causing the erosion that eventually formed a key
pathway over the imposing mountains of the Appalachian chain.
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
View from Pinnacle Overlook in Cumberland Gap National
Historical Site. Photo from the National
Park Service, http://www.nps.gov/cuga/index.htm,
8/27/12.
Acknowledgments: Music on the CD “Virginia Wildlife” is copyright 2004 by Timothy Seaman
and Pine Wind Music, used with permission.
Mr. Seaman’s Web site is http://www.timothyseaman.com/. The
“Virginia Wildlife” CD was a collaboration between Mr. Seaman and the Virginia
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries; for more information, visit https://www3.dgif.virginia.gov/estore/proddetail.asp?prod=VW219.
Sources and More
Information: Information on the
Cumberland Gap area was taken from the National Park Service’s Web site for the
Cumberland Gap National Recreation Area, http://www.nps.gov/cuga/index.htm,
8/27/12. For an introduction to the
Cumberland Gap meteorite impact crater, see “Giant
Meteor Found to have Struck Appalachia,” Christian Science Monitor, 5/18/10.
The long history of the song “Cumberland Gap” is shown by its inclusion
on “Songs of the Civil War Era,” a
1972 recording at the Library of Congress’s online catalog (at http://lccn.loc.gov/72761455, 8/27/12),
and on “Ballads of the Civil War,” a 1954 recording at the Smithsonian Folkways
Web site (http://www.folkways.si.edu/,
8/27/12).
Recent Virginia Water
News
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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.
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