(gay webb) apparently, the pigeon river was a sustainable river.you had a spot on the pigeon river whether you're white man, whether you're indian, or native american, if you had a spot on this river, you can get all your food to get you everything you needed. you had it right there. the cherokees called it "beautiful maiden." that was the most beautiful word in their language. and that's what they used on the pigeon river, because to them, a beautiful young lady was the most beautiful thing in the world. this river was second to that most beautiful thing in the world. so that's why they named it. (bobby seay) the mountain folks had a wonderful way of life here. they had intergenerational exchange with the cherokee. the river was plentiful with what is called a white suckerfish; they would actually net them and catch them. (jere brittain) neuse river's my place. i can feel it in my bones like an acquired genetic trait. when i was a boy growing up at the confluence of north and south in neuse river, my mother would occasionally play on an old pump o

a great monument to the passenger pigeon while losing state park, which is on another one of the waterways. talk about what while losing on the wisconsin riverin mississippi. so everybody else question yes, i have a question about the niagara. yes, you said it was like the outline of an agency and the equator was right there, which was really surprising to me. so how do you go from really hot tropical to i know how many centuries later to the you know, the the glacier how does that happen. well we you know the plate tectonics you remember that slide i had of showing how the these plates just kind of are just being bumped and moved around like bumper cars in an amusement park over time and that american plate was down there in this round the equator. yeah. and it got bumped and moved around, landed where it is now, about 10 million years ago. and that was way the glaciers came. so then it was far enough into northern hemisphere so that when the glaciers came, know, they covered they covered that. so that was pretty fun. oh, yeah, yeah. moved from the from of the equator all the way up to the 45 where we had the 40,. 45 degree latitude. i thin