Voice of the Rivers (VOR) is an expedition-based program focused on the interdisciplinary study of a river from its source to its end. Student team members paddle the river and earn six hours of college credit while taking two academic courses and interacting with a variety of leaders and program managers that support the river, media organizations and conservation groups. This summer Brevard College is once again sponsoring the Voice of the Rivers program. From May 15th-June 2nd thirteen Brevard College students and two faculty members will follow the Rappahannock River from the Blue Ridge Mountains near Front Royal, Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay at Deltaville, Virginia. The VOR Team will travel approximately 184 miles by foot, canoe and sea-kayak with primitive camping each night. VOR students—whose majors include Art, Religious Studies, Environmental Science, Exercise Science, Psychology, Business and Organizational Leadership and Wilderness Leadership and Experiential Education—will post daily journal entries, photos and videos of their travels and experiences online using Facebook, blogs and the Brevard College Web site. Expedition faculty leaders are Dr. John Buford and Dr. Resa Chandler.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Day 8 - by Willis

Today May 22, 2011 was a very interesting day for the VOR crew. We woke up this morning and filled our bellies with some banana and chocolate pancakes. After we finished our meal we packed up our stuff and headed to the Spotsylvania courthouse to watch the civil war reenactment. When we were at the reenactment we got to go and view the civil war camps and talk to some of the volunteers about the war and get some local history from the actors. The reenactment was ok. We got to hear a lot of loud bangs and see some Union soldiers fall and then get back up and keep on acting. During the cannon fire and gun fire we got a real close up view from behind the confederates. We had some free time when we arrived back at around 2:45. John and Kim went on a paddle and just to check out the river to see what we are going to get ourselves into. John and Kim did not return until about 25 minutes ago, minus a canoe. John and Kim flipped over and they could not catch onto the boat in enough time before the current sent them past it and they decided to float the rest of the way to the takeout. Hopefully tomorrow the canoe will still be there so we have enough boats to paddle. On a positive note, we had a filing dinner of Mac and Cheese and some cake for Dr. Chandler’s daughter, Chase’s birthday; She turned 8 today. After dinner we as a group did some academic work with John and Resa and experienced some tuck and rolls and an altercation over Lego’s. There was no paddling today but tomorrow we will hopefully get on the water for some paddling time.
P.S. All of the events that happened today to John and Kim are fictional events. John and Kim did not lose a boatJ
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