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TRANSCRIPT
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is
Virginia Water Radio for the week of December 10, 2012.
This week, we feature a musical selection commemorating voyages
to explore the Chesapeake Bay region in the early 17th Century. Have a listen for about 40 seconds.
MUSIC.
You’ve been listening to part of “Exploring the Rivers,” by
Timothy Seaman on his 2006 CD “Jamestown: On the Edge of a Vast Continent,”
from Pine Wind Music. The tune
commemorates the voyages by English colonists at Jamestown to explore the
lands, waters, and native peoples of the Bay and its tributaries. Led by Captain John Smith, the expeditions between
1607 and 1609 covered some 3000 miles of Bay waters, including rivers we now
call the Elizabeth, James, Potomac, Rappahannock, and York. In 2006, Congress designated the routes of
those expeditions as the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National
Historic Trail, the country’s first national water trail. Historic and natural resources sites on the
trail range from First Landing State Park in southeastern Virginia to the Susquehanna
River in Pennsylvania. Thanks
to Timothy Seaman for permission to use this week’s music.
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
Captain John Smith’s 1612 map of Virginia. Image provided for public use by the Maryland
State Archives, “Charts and Maps Used by
the Early Settlers of Maryland,” online at http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/html/mpt.html
(accessed 12/10/12).
Acknowledgments: “Exploring the Rivers” and the 2006 CD “Jamestown: On the Edge of a Vast
Continent” are copyright by Timothy Seaman and Pine Wind Music, used with
permission. Mr. Seaman’s Web site is http://www.timothyseaman.com/.
Sources: Information
on the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail was taken from the
National Park Service Web site at http://www.smithtrail.net/;
the “John Smith Voyages of Exploration” Web site by Penn State University and
the Smithsonian Institution at http://johnsmith.psu.edu/home.aspx;
and the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network Web site at http://baygateways.net/smithstudy.cfm. For more information on the trail, contact
the National Park Service’s Chesapeake Bay Office at 410 Severn Avenue, Suite 314, Annapolis, MD 21403; phone (410)
260-2470.
“Virtual Jamestown” provides an interactive map of the Smith
voyages, where users can see the routes, names used by Smith on his maps,
current names, etc.; online at http://www.virtualjamestown.org/smith_voyages/introduction.html. “Virtual Jamestown” is a project of Virginia
Tech, the University of Virginia, and the Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities and Public Policy.
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.
