Each of these towns represents a different element of America’s development. Yet they all share the same fate: they, and hundreds of other communities like them, were vacated, demolished and flooded to make way for dams and reservoirs. Their remnants persist, preserved underwater, and sometimes emerge, as reminders of what was not allowed to be.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Ashokan Farewell ~ Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band
Ashokan Farewell was composed in 1982 by Jay Ungar and written in the style of a Scottish lament. Shortly after a Fiddle & Dance Camp had come to an end for the season, he was feeling a great sense of loss and longing for the music, the dancing and the community of people that had developed at Ashokan that summer.
Filmmaker, Ken Burns, used it in his PBS series, The Civil War.
Wow....beautiful!
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