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TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is Virginia Water Radio for the week of January 16, 2017. This week’s episode, marking seven years of the show, is dedicated to Virginia Water Radio co-founder Patrick Fay and his family, now in Greenville, N.C.
MUSIC – ~ 14 sec
This week, music from a Fredericksburg, Va., musician and instrument maker, reflects on two of life’s most valuable treasures: friendship and flowing water. Have a listen for about 50 seconds more.
MUSIC - ~47 sec
You’ve been listening to part of “Best Friends,” by Bob Gramann, with Laura Lengnick on fiddle, from the 2000 album “That Squirrel Song.” Since the early 1990s, Bob Gramann has been writing and performing songs that raise listeners’ awareness of human connections, natural resources, and the intersections between them. Virginia’s Rappahannock River basin is Mr. Gramann’s home watershed and the subject of much of his music. Like other rivers, the Rappahannock’s rich with history, nature, cultural significance, and—not least—metaphors for human lives: rising and falling, ebbing and flowing, never really still, and defined by connections.
Thanks to Bob Gramann for permission to use this week’s music, and we close with about 30 more seconds of “Best Friends.”
MUSIC - ~ 28 sec
SHIP’S BELL
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
“Best Friends,” from the 2000 album “That Squirrel Song,” is copyright by Bob Gramann, used with permission. More information about Bob Gramann is available online at http://www.bobgramann.com/.
“Best Friends” was previously featured in Episode 121, 7-30-12; that episode has been archived.
PHOTO
A winter view of the Rappahannock River looking upstream near Remington, Va. (Culpeper County to the left, Fauquier County to the right), Dec. 27, 2009.
SOURCES USED FOR AUDIO AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries: “Rappahannock River—Upper,” online at https://www.dgif.virginia.gov/waterbody/rappahannock-river-upper/; and “Rappahannock River—Tidal,” online at https://www.dgif.virginia.gov/waterbody/rappahannock-river-tidal/.
RELATED VIRGINIA WATER RADIO EPISODES
All Water Radio episodes are listed by category at the Index link above (http://www.virginiawaterradio.org/p/index.html).
Previous episodes featuring music that uses water imagery for human connections and situations include the following:
Episode 142, 12/31/12;
Episode 194, 12/30/13;
Episode 200, 2/10/14;
Episode 296, 12/28/15.
STANDARDS OF LEARNING (SOLs) FOR VIRGINIA TEACHERS
The episode may help with Virginia 2013 Music SOLs at various grade levels that call for “examining the relationship of music to the other fine arts and other fields of knowledge.”
The episode may also help with the following Virginia 2010 English SOLs:
Reading Theme
8.5 (symbols and figurative language)
9.4 (imagery and other literary devices)
10.4 (imagery and other literary devices)
11.4 (imagery and figures of speech)
This episode may also help with the following Virginia 2010 Science 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.
Earth Science Course
ES.8 - influences by geologic processes and the activities of humans on freshwater resources, including identification of groundwater and major watershed systems in Virginia.
The episode may also help with the following Virginia 2008 Social Studies SOLs:
Virginia Studies Course
VS.10 – knowledge of government, geography, and economics in present-day Virginia.
World Geography Course
WG.3 - how regional landscapes reflect the physical environment and the cultural characteristics of their inhabitants.
The episode may also help with the following Virginia 2015 Social Studies SOLs, which become effective in the 2017-18 school year:
Virginia Studies Course
VS.10 – knowledge of government, geography, and economics in present-day Virginia.
World Geography Course
WG.3 - how regional landscapes reflect the physical environment and the cultural characteristics of their inhabitants.
Virginia’s SOLs are available from the Virginia Department of Education, online at http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/.
