The Road to Nowhere

A few months ago there were a number of messages posted here about the
building, or non-building, of a promised road in Great Smoky Mountains
National Park.

A videographer with WPSU-TV (Penn State U.) has made a documentary
about that road. Anyone who would like to view it can find it at

http://www.wpsu.org/ondemand/streams...here06072.html

vince

vincent p. norris wrote:
A few months ago there were a number of messages posted here about the
building, or non-building, of a promised road in Great Smoky Mountains
National Park.

A videographer with WPSU-TV (Penn State U.) has made a documentary
about that road. Anyone who would like to view it can find it at

http://www.wpsu.org/ondemand/streams...here06072.html

vince

thanks vince... the issue of the road presents an interesting drama,
full of conflict, morality, values, etc. that brief video barely
scratched the surface of the story that could be told...and was limited
in its scope, probably because of the filmmaker's resources and the fact
it was really a school project. but, in the end, the promise needs to
be compensated with money, not a road. if there was an enforceable legal
contract, i feel certain some firebrand would have pursued the broken
promise in a breach of contract action long before now.

the swain county commissioners agreed to accept about 56 million dollars
in settlement of the former obligation. now that heath shuler has been
elected to congress as the representative for that district of nc, we
may see some progress in resolving the issue in a way that saves a truly
remarkable landscape from the problems a road through it would
inevitably bring.

jeff

On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:55:45 -0500, jeff wrote:

we
may see some progress in resolving the issue in a way that saves a truly
remarkable landscape from the problems a road through it would
inevitably bring.

Not to mention preserving the opportunity to walk through that dark deserted
tunnel, imagining the faint sound of banjo music. ;-)
--
Charlie...
http://www.chocphoto.com