Fri, 10 October 2014
"It's never encouraging to be awoken in a tent by headlights. I wanted to play possum--roll over, and pretend to sleep until they left," writes David Hanson. "But this was exactly why I was here, a few hundred miles into a 500-mile canoe float down Georgia's Chattahoochee. I came here to see the river, but I really came here to see its people. And here they were."
Today, we bring you David's story of discovering a culture at once foreign and strangely familiar--and all within a day's drive of the place where he grew up.
David recently returned to the Chattahoochee to create a documentary, Who Owns Water, that chronicles a tri-state water war that threatens the river and the communities that depend on it.
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I just listened to David’s short yesterday, 10/14, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Growing up in a part of eastern Oklahoma that is at the edge of an area of the state known as “little Dixie” I could totally relate to his story. The rivers that I spent a lot of time on as a young person are muddy and slow, but not the size of the Hooch. The people as similar as well. I like the term “common”, which pretty much describes my family and upbringing and the people I was around as a kid. David’s story reminded me of a desire I had as a kid, to float the North Canadian river from where we lived to Lake Eufaula. Passing all the places we hunted, fished and camped while I was growing up and see them from another perspective. I’ve starting planning the trip. I always look forward to your podcasts! Thanks, Jerry
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