What You’re Missing Beneath North Carolina’s Rivers
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Snorkeling reveals the vibrant, hidden world beneath North Carolina’s mountain rivers.
The Blue Ridge Snorkel Trail offers public access to North Carolina’s mountain rivers, revealing vibrant ecosystems beneath the surface. Snorkelers are often surprised by the colorful fish and insects they see. Guides like Kevin Merrill hope these experiences inspire people to protect the rivers they explore.
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SCI NC is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Sci NC is supported by a generous bequest gift from Dan Carrigan and the Gaia Earth-Balance Endowment through the Gaston Community Foundation.
What You’re Missing Beneath North Carolina’s Rivers
Special | 8m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
The Blue Ridge Snorkel Trail offers public access to North Carolina’s mountain rivers, revealing vibrant ecosystems beneath the surface. Snorkelers are often surprised by the colorful fish and insects they see. Guides like Kevin Merrill hope these experiences inspire people to protect the rivers they explore.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipThere's reason to believe that the American Revolution was actually our first civil war.
Depending on your background, where you lived, what language you spoke, or how you even got to the colonies, your best shot at stability might have been with the British.
That's why in many parts of the South, the fighting was neighbor against neighbor, even family against family.
So those neat rows of redcoats fighting bluecoats, not always accurate.
A lot of times, the pictures should look like this.
Colonists fighting each other in various shades of neutrals.
But wait, I have a question.
How could they tell who they were supposed to be fighting if it was colonist versus colonist?
Well, in one battle, accounts say that one side stuffed white paper in their hats and the other side used pine sprigs.
At the end of this bloody battle that left over 1,000 American casualties, there was only one British soldier even there, the commander.
Kind of makes you wonder if the Revolutionary War was really our first Civil War.
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SCI NC is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Sci NC is supported by a generous bequest gift from Dan Carrigan and the Gaia Earth-Balance Endowment through the Gaston Community Foundation.