The Great Dismal Swamp Canal
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- Take a trip with Bland Simpson up the Great Dismal Swamp Canal in this segment from the "Our State" television program. Produced by UNC-TV and Our State Magazine, with generous funding from BB&T. Segment originally aired on 2/1/2006.
The Robert Frost story in the middle is truly amazing. I wouldn’t be surprised if less than 1% of the members of my generations of Americans have ever heard that story. That, and all the images of the sky reflecting off the water in the video are downright hypnotic.
This is extremely well done
I love this video! Brings back memories and everyone did a great job with this video. It makes me happy everytime I Watch it. Thank you so much. This is only 20 miles from the home where I was raised and it means a lot to me to be able to get on here and watch it. Being a professional videographer it makes me really proud to watch this!
Granby Street runs straight through Norfolk, VA. It was named after an 18th C. British aristocrat who never set foot in America. But now I’ll always think of Moses Grandy. Honor is forever.
Fond memories of the dismal swamp. Thank you for this wonderful video
Bacon & Brandy - Whadda Combo!!!!! ;-) I bet **someone** was glad to see that ship!!!!
Wow I never knew there was a floating theatre! This whole video was very informative
Funny how they leave out the fact that slaves dug out the canals.
Not unintended, for obvious reasons. Ditch of Death. Vital for obscene wealth accumulation by whites, and so easily erased from white memories.
How did we make this with horse and buggy ropes and pullies... great presentation
really cool piece.
The dismal swamp....where my ancestors escaped slavery and created civilization this swamp oozes of black history
Sure does....and to think they still use. I'm from the region and it is home to some of the earliest saves to arrive in America.
Created civilization LLLOOOLLLLL
You have to live in the area to understand it.
All you really need to know about is: Old Man Kelsey's woods, Old Man Kelsey's Crick, Old Man Kelsey's Ocean. Now let’s move on to arithmetic.
PLEASE CAPTION THESE VIDEOS! Deaf need to enjoy these videos, too!
You can turn on captions in CZcams.
Its in Norfolk and Chesapeake VA NOT NC
***** Nope it runs through more of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Virginia Beach VA and Elizabeth City, NC
***** Wikipedia.Com and Google.Com and Bing.Com and Yahoo.Com and AOL.Com and From A Virginia State Book and From Virginia Studies
Whatever Dumbass
90% of the Great Dismal is located in NC.
Who’s here from Kms
Have alligators been found recently?
Rarely but I’ve only heard of them being in the NC section
emily e alexander me trouxeram aqui
Green Juice #002
Everytime I make my "Green Juice" aka Kale, Celery, 2 Green Apples, 1 Lemon, 1 cucumber and a thumb size portion of Ginger root I watch this. I will start to keep talley. Although I have done this about 30 Times already this will be GREEN JUICE #001. Love this movie also!
I don't like niether!!!!
This boat is too big for the ditch and should not be in it.
Are there gators there?
I never saw any whenever I would canoe through the swamps, but there were beaver lodges. It always felt as if I were floating through Jurassic Park
Linda Casey
Well, the historic northern limit of the North American gator is just a few miles south of the Virginia/North Carolina line, and, if the globe really is warming, which I neither accept nor reject, then a reasonable person would expect to see gators eventually appear in the Dismal Swamp.
Fersomling That's EXACTLY what I was thinking to myself when I was canoeing through the swamp. Hoping that the Northern limit was still a couple States below Virginia. I expected at any moment for a dinosaur to pop out from behind a cypress tree. It was real creepy at times, especially if there was a mist above the water.
Linda Casey
Well, there's the Alligator River in northern North Carolina. Guess there's a reason why they called it that.
The Commonwealth of Virginia officially says that there are no gators in that state.
Folks in Tidewater say otherwise.
+Linda Casey mèŕçý
A death sentence for those forced into that hole.
Green Juice 004... missing celery... :(
bur my son tried it for the first time!
I want to be bitten by a mosquito.
Green Juice #6
Green Juice# 003