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10 unusual facts about Shenandoah


Birch Monroe

In 1934, Birch chose the stability of working at the refinery to support his sisters while Charlie and Bill went on to perform on KFNF in Shenandoah, Iowa.

Charles William Wallace

Intending to be a teacher, he graduated from Western Normal College, Shenandoah, Iowa, and taught briefly in country schoolhouses before becoming a professor of Latin and English at his alma mater.

Cooper Music Store

After several years living in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, and working in the coal mines, Cooper and his family – which now included two sons, John and Will – moved to Buffalo in 1892.

Ivan Volansky

He arrived in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania in 1884 after Ukrainian immigrants petitioned the Metropolitan of Lviv for their own priest.

James Blackwood

The quartet soon began broadcasting on the larger WJDX in Jackson, Mississippi, later moving to Shreveport, Louisiana in 1939, and Shenandoah, Iowa in 1940.

Michael F. Conry

Born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Conry was employed in the coal mines until crippled for life.

Shenandoah Red Jackets

The Shenandoah Red Jackets were an Eastern League of Professional Football team based in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA that played during the league's only year of existence, 1926.

Shenandoah, Virginia

The Big Gem was dismantled in 1917 and the land passed ownership to the Lukens Steel Company who has just recently donated the land to the town.

The Blackwood Brothers

By 1940, they were affiliated with Stamps-Baxter to sell songbooks and were appearing on 50,000-watt radio station KMA (AM) in Shenandoah, Iowa.

The Fabulous Dorseys

The Fabulous Dorseys is a 1947 fictionalized biographical film which tells the story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, from their boyhood in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.


Attempts to make the Potomac River navigable

The late realization of these unanticipated problems caused the company to give up its earlier goal to link the Potomac and the Ohio Valley, and the new goal was to improve other rivers in the watershed such as the Shenandoah, the Monocacy, and the Antietam.

Beatrice, Alabama

He is a former President of A&R Country Division in iMG Records/Universal/EMI and also has two songs by Shenandoah and Dave Gibson of the Gibson/Miller Band and one song unreleased by Lady Antebellum.

Chris Marion

Since moving to Nashville in 1987, Marion has toured with the likes of Steven Curtis Chapman, Tony Elenburg, Shenandoah, Beth Moore and Jeannie Seely of the Grand Ole Opry.

Christopher J. O'Hara

Chris has served on the faculties of the Shenandoah Arts Academy (Winchester, VA), the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (Lenox, MA), the Festival de Musica de Camara (Aguascalientes, Mexico), the International Institute and Festival at Round Top (Round Top, TX), and the South Shore Conservatory (Hingham, MA).

Clay Athey

In 2012, Governor Bob McDonnell appointed him a judge of the 26th Judicial Circuit, covering Clarke, Frederick, Page, Rockingham, Shenandoah and Warren counties and the cities of Harrisonburg and Winchester in the northern part of the state.

Cloud suck

At about 6:00 AM on 3 September 1925, near Ava in northern Noble County, Ohio, the Shenandoah was suddenly caught in a violent updraft, while at an altitude of 2,100 feet rising at the rate of a meter a second.

Corbin

Corbin Cabin, a log structure built by George T. Corbin in 1909 in the Nicholson Hollow area of what is now Shenandoah National Park

Ghost in This House

"Ghost in This House" is the title of a song written by Hugh Prestwood and recorded by American country music group Shenandoah.

Headward erosion

For example, headward erosion by the Shenandoah River in the U.S. state of Virginia, a tributary of the Potomac River, permitted the Shenandoah to capture successively the original upstream segments of Beaverdam Creek, Gap Run and Goose Creek, three smaller tributaries of the Potomac.

Hugh Prestwood

Other artists who have recorded his material include Alison Krauss ("Ghost in this House"), Collin Raye ("On the Verge"), Shenandoah ("Ghost in This House"), Highway 101 ("Bing Bang Boom"), Barbara Mandrell ("Where are the Pieces of My Heart"), and Trisha Yearwood ("The Song Remembers When", for which he won an Emmy in 1994).

I Want to Be Loved Like That

"I Want to Be Loved Like That" is the title of a song written by Phil Barnhart, Sam Hogin and Bill LaBounty, and recorded by American country music band Shenandoah.

J. Kirk Richards

Among other locations, Richards work has been shown at the Springville Museum of Art; the Renaissance Center Juried Show in Nashville, Tennessee; the Provo Arts Council Freedom Festival Fine Art Exhibit; the Bountiful/Davis Art Center; at Southern Virginia University as part of its Annual Shenandoah Invitational Art Show; at the Robert N. & Peggy Sears Dixie State Invitational Art Shows in St. George, Utah; and the Museum of Church History and Art.

James Erb

Erb is best known for his various arrangements of the Folk song "Shenandoah", and among musicologists of the Renaissance for his work on the magnificats of Orlando Di Lasso.

John B. Mason

He later appeared in every original Gilbert and Sullivan opera production in America and created the leading roles in the plays Hands Across the Sea, The English Rose and as Kerchival West in Bronson Howard's Civil War play, Shenandoah.

Leavin's Been a Long Time Comin'

The video features former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Troy Aikman, who plays Cowboy Joe, the new gentleman friend of the woman playing the wife of Shenandoah lead singer, Marty Raybon, in a takeoff on a 1940-vintage divorce trial.

Long Time Coming

Long Time Comin', a 1992 album by Shenandoah, or the title track "Leavin's Been a Long Time Comin'"

Mama Knows

"Mama Knows" is a song written by Tony Haselden and Tim Mensy, and recorded by American country music group Shenandoah.

Morton Selten

In 1889, Selten played Clarence Vane in Mrs. Hargrove’s Our Flat at the Lyceum Theatre and Captain Heartsease in Bronson Howard’s American Civil War epic, Shenandoah.

New Market, Virginia

A number of schools are located in and around New Market including within New Market, Shenandoah Valley Academy and Shenandoah Valley Adventist Elementary School.

Ruder Than You

This included the demise of the band’s former label Moon Records, a 3-year incarceration of lead singer and toaster Freddie "3D" Weaver, and the death of bari-sax player Trish Johnson, who was killed in the morning while traveling to Shenandoah, PA, to visit her mother.

Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia

Early took the Second Corps, technically as a detached Army of the Valley, down through the Shenandoah Valley and up to the outskirts of Washington, D.C., raiding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and countryside of Maryland and Pennsylvania along the way.

Shenandoah Valley School District

It serves the municipalities of Shenandoah, Altamont, and West Mahanoy Township.

Smith W. Brookhart

However, in the 1932 Republican primary he was defeated by Henry Field, a Shenandoah, Iowa nurseryman.

Stonewall Jackson Area Council

Camp Shenandoah was first established in 1930 near McGaheysville, Virginia and moved to its present site near Swoope, Virginia in 1950.

Tal Henry

He left Maysville in 1914 to attend Shenandoah Conservatory of Music located in Dayton, Virginia.

Tennessee State Route 109

SR 109 is mentioned in several country music songs including "Church on the Cumberland Road" by Shenandoah and "Goodbye Earl" by the Dixie Chicks.

The 5 Browns

Their repertoire ranges from beloved concert hall staples, such as Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King to lesser known works like Nico Muhly's The Edge of the World and John Novacek's Reflections on Shenandoah.

The Church on Cumberland Road

"The Church on Cumberland Road" is a song written by Bob DiPiero, John Scott Sherrill and Dennis Robbins, and recorded by American country music group Shenandoah.

Trichopetalum whitei

The species is recorded from caves in the upper Potomac River drainage in Virginia (Augusta, Page, Rockingham, and Shenandoah Counties) and West Virginia (Hardy, Grant, and Pendleton Counties).

USS Shenandoah

Four United States Navy ships, including one rigid airship, and one ship of the Confederate States of America, have been named Shenandoah, after the Shenandoah River of western Virginia and West Virginia.

Virginius

Virginius Island, West Virginia, an island on the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

William Morse

On that day, while Shenandoah was at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he and Seaman John Smith jumped overboard and rescued First Class Fireman James Grady from drowning.

William Virgil Davis

He has published poems in Poetry, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, The Hopkins Review, The Gettysburg Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Denver Quarterly, and Shenandoah, among others.