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Awesome Map Thread

well it's a fucking AMERICAN EAGLE so prob not allowed in Iran
 
TIL that John Denver's Country Roads, Take Me Home, is about Western Va, not WVa.

https://twitter.com/MicheleSteele/status/1515292904675291139

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That map of the river is not accurate. The river crosses into WV at the "e" in "River" and flows into the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, WV.
 
I always pictured the mountains along the border of the two state. I think of WVA as a mountainous state which the map does not depict.
 
Of course WV is a mountainous state. The Allegheny Mountains are all over WV.

The Blue Ridge Mountains are also located in WV in the same area as the river, the Eastern Panhandle.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home,_Country_Roads

Inspiration for the title line had come while Nivert and Danoff, who were married, were driving along Clopper Road in Montgomery County, Maryland to a Nivert family gathering in Gaithersburg, with Nivert behind the wheel while Danoff played his guitar. "I just started thinking, country roads, I started thinking of me growing up in western new England and going on all these small roads," Danoff said. "It didn’t have anything to do with Maryland or anyplace."
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Virginia, Maryland, New England...basically it's not about West Virginia at all.

John Denver had never been to West Virginia, either.
 
Doesn't stop them from lighting couches on fire and yelling the lyrics.
 
I didn't learn until a little later in my youth that it was West(ern) Virginia in the song. At camp we sang the song but said Carolina and Tuckaseegee River instead. And, honestly, I think Carolina sounds better than West Virginia in the context of the song.
 
"carolina" is a great song word

other states that are great song words: alabama, arizona, california, georgia with the right accent, indiana, kentucky, louisiana, tennessee
 
hot take: New Orleeens is obviously the wrong way to pronounce that city, but it works better in songs than the correct pronunciation.
 
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