Season 2 Trailer Transcript

  (river sounds)

Female voice: “A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.” Laura Gilpin

(steamboat whistle)

(sound of river fades out and theme music fades in)

Austin Carter: Rivers provide life and nourishment, inspiration and recreation.

Ariel Lavery: They are also wild and unpredictable, delivering destruction and heartbreak. 

Austin Carter: America’s rivers are ancient.  They have cut through the land to create fertile valleys.
Ariel Lavery: They have carved their way into our hearts to inspire and awe us at every turn.  This season, we traverse our rivers, and discover the stories that lie beneath their surface.

Andreas Fath: Each river tells you something about the society living along that river.

Amelia Flores: And so it just added more depth to our responsibility, my responsibility of taking care of the river, and not seeing it as just a river. 

Austin Carter: We learn about how we’ve influenced our rivers and tried to control them.

Martin Knoll: Certainly the Tennessee River today is not the river that it was 150 years ago.  

Ariel Lavery: We hear stories of culture and music born out of the people who worked on the rivers.

Nathan Quote: In terms of river songs we thought, man, this is uncharted territory that people are not aware of.  

(female voice singing a roustabouts song)

Austin Carter: We learn about the generations of indigenous people who have cared for our rivers and who are renewing their stewardship over those rivers today.  

Gerald Schroedl: The long man’s head was in the mountains. His feet were where the water eventually flowed into the oceans.  

Amelia Flores: It ties back to our origins and our Creator Mateyvila. He gave us the land, and he gave us, you know, the river, and all of the resources to live off and to be stewards. 

Ariel Lavery: And we take you on a journey along the entangling story of a beloved river that ceased to be.  

Alfred Davis: My great grandfather bought 360 acres in the bend of the river. 

Carolyn Davis: And then you knew what was going to happen to your farm when they got ahold of it.  Same thing they done to that.

Zyg Platter: But to take 300 families off their farms, and to destroy the heart of the Cherokee.  

(theme music swells)

Austin Carter: America’s rivers are a reflection of us.

Martin Knoll: The character of a river is given to it by everything that goes on in the watershed.  

Austin Carter: That’s coming up in Season 2 of Middle of Everywhere. 

Ariel Lavery: Telling big stories from the small places we call home.  Find us wherever you get your podcasts.