The city of Roanoke has contracted with Environmental Quality Resources, a Maryland and Virginia-based contractor, to construct Virginia’s first in-river whitewater park.

Roanoke area veterans and friends gathered at the Roanoke Valley War Memorial in Freedom Plaza in May 2022 for a Memorial Day ceremony hosted by the Roanoke Valley Veterans Council.

Have we broken the natural contract between humans and rivers? The nature writer debates our relationship with the world’s waterways that inspired his latest book, Is A River Alive?

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