Ariel: Hey, Middle of Everywhere fans. We’ve got something really special coming your way in a couple weeks.

(Tanasi Theme Music Starts)

Ariel Lavery: We’re putting the finishing touches on a mini-series about a powerful agency, and a gigantic dam project  that clashed with farmers, environmentalists and Cherokee who fought to preserve the river and the valley.  

Carolyn: I knew that, from our conversations from around the table, that it was a possibility that there might be a dam, you know, and there might not be a dam. It was just sort of like, is there an alien behind that tree? Well, I don't know. Surely not. Oh, that would never happen.

Austin: It involves a legal case around an endangered species that was important enough to end up in our highest court.

Zyg Plater: When I heard that the Supreme Court had accepted our case. I was very reasonably panicked.

Ariel: It’s a story born in the environmental movement of the 1960s and 70s that people still remember

Charlie Rotarmer: And a lot of the times, this is the lake?  And I’m like, this is the lake.  This is where it happened.

Austin: Wait til you hear WHAT happened. 

Ariel: The Story of Tanasi.  Coming your way on this season of Middle of Everywhere.