The Cannonsville Reservoir.
posted by eric l houck jr at 2:03 PM
Thursday, March 30, 2006
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5 Comments:
Rutland Water is the biggest man made lake in the UK - similar story
A haven for wildlife but of course different to what inhabited the countryside before flooding
Good cycling too
http://www.rutlandcycling.co.uk/historical_rutland_water.htm
eric - this is a really emotive subject in North Wales and in many ways was the catalyst for the start of the Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Nationalist Party
You can find more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn
http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/item10/13160
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4332312.stm
or google Capel Celyn - there are plenty of evocative photos of the drowned village there
I think it is a great idea to have haiku like this connected with environmental problems.
My Japanese masters might object ... hahaha.
Anyway, this could be part of the World Kigo Database too, if the haiku provide a kigo of your area !
Well done !
GABI
. WHC World Kigo Database .
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thanks for the links, matt & LO . . . sometime soon i'll be posting some of the old postcards of the drowned villages on my walton-in-postcards blog, along with some recent photographs of the reservoir.
Really like this.Especially the eagle. In Amerindian mythologies, the Eagle stands for the supreme ruler of the universe. Back again...
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