A six-song story series about The Great Dismal Swamp in eastern North Carolina.
What if I could create that old LP experience online? Where you’d sit on the floor, open a record jacket, and read the artist’s stories and look through photographs. What if I could create that experience online, using photos and digital vignettes.
In the six weeks leading up to the CD release August 13, 2015 at Triad Stage in Greensboro, I published one new chapter, and one new song on the blog using WordPress and Soundcloud. Delivered each via blog post and email.
The story is published below, starting with chapter 1, when I first found the Great Dismal Swamp that one hot, Greensboro summer when I Googled for a free swimming hole.
On the dock in the Dismal with the book that brought me here.
George Washington tried to turn the swamp into a profitable farmland.
Moses Grandy was a slave, a boat captain, and eventually a free man who worked on the Great Dismal Swamp Canal.
Legend says a woman haunts Lake Drummond at night, paddling her white canoe by firefly lamplight.
The James Adams Floating Theater was one of the last true American Showboats.
Floating underwater in a saltwater pool.
