Culture
The folk song "Oh Shenandoah" has been recorded by a number of artists including Tennessee Ernie Ford, the Statler Brothers, jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and Bruce Springsteen. The song may or may not refer to the Shenandoah River or Valley.
The Shenandoah River figures prominently in John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads," which associates the river with the state of West Virginia. Only the last 20 miles (32 km) of the river are in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, with the vast majority of the river and its forks and tributaries flowing through Virginia.
The original song 'Shenandoah River' appears on the 2011 album 'Middle of Everywhere' by Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three.
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“The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you’d never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)
“One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fibre of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardy.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)