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All Web addresses mentioned were functional as of 7-2-15.
All Web addresses mentioned were functional as of 7-2-15.
TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is
Virginia Water Radio for the week of July 6, 2015.
This week, in honor of Independence Day, we feature a
Williamsburg musician’s composition honoring a road that connects three famous places
in Virginia’s colonial and Revolutionary War history. Have a listen for about 25 seconds.
MUSIC ~25 sec
You’ve been listening to part of “The Great Road,” by
Timothy Seaman on the 1998 CD, “Celebration of Centuries,” from Pine Wind
Music. In the early 1600s, the “Great
Road” led from Jamestown Island to parts of the Virginia Peninsula between the
James and York rivers—the southernmost of coastal Virginia’s four large
peninsulas and the center of European settlement in early colonial Virginia. Today, the Great Road is commemorated in the
Colonial Parkway, part of the Colonial National Historic Park that preserves
and interprets Jamestown Island and the Yorktown Battlefield. The 23-mile parkway connects Jamestown,
Williamsburg, and Yorktown, referred to as Virginia’s “historic triangle.” This physical connection helps millions of
annual travelers learn about the Peninsula’s historical connections: from the
first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown in 1607; to Virginia’s
colonial capital in Williamsburg from 1704 to 1779; and to the decisive Battle
of Yorktown in 1781 that effectively gained independence for the United States.
As we celebrate that independence in 2015, the Colonial
Parkway is one of hundreds of Peninsula roadways between James City County and
Hampton Roads, a region of busy cities, bustling ports, vital natural resources,
nationally significant military installations, and popular tourist
destinations. 400 years after the first
European settler traveled the Great Road, and 240 years after independence, the
peninsula between the James and York rivers is a treasure of Virginia’s past
and a focal point of the present and future.
Thanks to Timothy Seaman for permission to use this week’s
music, and we close with a few more seconds of “The Great Road.”
MUSIC ~10 sec
For more Virginia water sounds, music, and information, visit
us online at virginiawaterradio.org,
or call us at (540) 231-5463. Virginia
Water Radio is produced by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, part
of Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment. Thanks to Stewart Scales for his banjo
version of Cripple Creek to open and close the show. In Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo, thanking you for listening, and wishing you
health, wisdom, and good water.
AUDIO NOTES AND
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
“The Great Road,” from the 1998 CD, “Celebration of
Centuries” (and also included on the 2001 CD “Common Wealth”) is copyright by
Timothy Seaman and Pine Wind Music; used with permission. More information about Timothy Seaman is
available online at http://timothyseaman.com/.
PHOTO
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| Where Thomas Jefferson might have been if radio had been
available in 1776. Photo by Gabe Minnich. |
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, “History/Capitol,” online at http://www.history.org/history/index.cfm.
David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly, Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward
Movement, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2000.
National Park Service, “Colonial National Historic Park,”
online at http://www.nps.gov/colo/index.htm.
National Park Service, “Green Spring Plantation,” online at http://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/green-spring-plantation.htm.
Timothy Seaman, liner notes for the 1998 CD “Celebration of
Centuries,” online at http://timothyseaman.com/index.php/celebration-of-centuries-album-main-page.
Virginia Department of Transportation, “A History of Roads
in Virginia,” 2006, online at http://www.virginiadot.org/about/resources/historyofrds.pdf.
York County, Virginia, “A Statistical Snapshot of the
Historic Triangle,” online at https://www.yorkcounty.gov/Portals/3/Users/114/14/114/VA_Historic_Triangle_Stat_Snapshot.pdf.
RELATED VIRGINIA WATER RADIO EPISODES
Following are the subjects of and links to some other Water
Radio episodes related to the American Revolution. For other episodes related to history, please
see the “History” category at the Index link above (http://www.virginiawaterradio.org/p/index.html).
Revolutionary War Waters: EP168
– 7/1/13
Surrender at Yorktown, featuring “The Surrender of
Cornwallis,” by Bobby Horton: EP103
– 3/19/12
George Washington, Walter Johnson, and the Rappahannock
River: EP149
– 2/18/13
Water and Virginia-born Presidents: EP135
– 11/5/12
Water origins of Virginia’s signers of the Declaration of
Independence: EP220
– 6/30/14
SOLS INFORMATION FOR
VIRGINIA TEACHERS
This episode may help with the following Virginia’s 2010 Science
Standards of Learning (SOLs):
Grades K-6 Earth
Resources Theme
4.9 - Va. natural resources, including watersheds, water
resources, and organisms.
Grades K-6 Living
Systems Theme
6.7 - natural processes and human interactions that affect
watershed systems; Va. watersheds, water bodies, and wetlands; and water
monitoring.
The episode may also help with the following Virginia 2008 Social
Studies SOLs:
Virginia Studies Course
VS.2 – physical geography of Virginia past and present.
VS.3 – first permanent English settlement in America.
VS.4 – life in the Virginia colony.
VS.5 – role of Virginia in the American Revolution.
United States History to 1865 Course
USI.2 – water features important to the early history of the
United States.
USI.5 – factors that shaped colonial America.
World Geography Course
World Geography Course
WG.6 - past and present trends in human migration and
cultural interaction as influenced by social, economic, political, and
environmental factors.
