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.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Day 9 - by Christina

This morning we woke up earlier than usual and ate a simple breakfast and packed everything back into the trailers in time to talk to John Tippett about the Embry Dam Easement.  Everyone seemed to enjoy this talk a lot. It was a good story about how hard work and persistent can really pay off. 
After to talking to John we headed into town to go to the Dr. Mercer’s Apothecary Shop I think this may have been one of my favorite things we went to see.  The women had us sit on the floor like good little students and showed us different natural substances such as Lavender and Chamomile and told us what it was used for during the late 1700’s.  Some of the bottles they past around and allowed us to smell. My favorite was the lavender and thought about asking for some because it smelled much better than us.  After showing us the medicine they moved us to the other room to show us the leeches and how they would perform surgeries and even how to pull teeth.  We tried to get them to give a real demonstration on how to pull a tooth but no one was willing to have one pulled.
Once we were finished there we were able to talk around town for a little bit. Tyler decided to get a haircut and Kim and Audrey decided to braid their hair together and walk around town attached to each other.  They asked John Buford if he walked to braid his hair into theirs but he decided to wait until his pony tail grew out a little longer.   
After our time in town was over we hit the road (after eating our lunch of PB and J’s) and headed to our next camp site.  We set up the tarp as prevention to the rain, and the rain did come. It didn’t last long but I personally really enjoyed it.  Once we were allowed to leave the tarp we explored. Austin found a copperhead right outside of his tent, tent 11-04 found a black snake outside of their tent, and a group of us found the site of a party (a.k.a  two trash bags of trash, two buggy board, three empty bottles of liquor and some goggles.) All in all I think it has been a great day.  But we are excited for tomorrow, because we get to get back on the water again.
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