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THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! is a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. 

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! Audio Tour

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICES: Historians William Kahrl & John Walton outline key events before the Angeles Aqueduct was completed in 1913.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 3: City of Destiny (William Kahrl with John Walton)

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICES: Historians William Kahrl and John Walton overview deception and civil unrest within the Owens Valley during the 1920s.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 4: There It Is—Take It! (William Kahrl with John Walton)

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: Big Pine Paiute tribal member Alan Bacock recounts the landscape of his ancestral people before European settlement.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 2: Alan Bacock, Big Pine Paiute Tribal Member

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: OVC’s Mark Bagley illuminates environmental impacts within the Owens Valley that ushered in the modern the “Water Wars.”

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 5: Mark Bagley, Owens Valley Committee

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. 

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: LADWP Public Relations Officer Chris Plakos describes the infrastructure of the Los Angeles Aqueduct system.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 1: Chris Plakos, LADWP Public Relations Officer

Morning soundscape recording made at the Wee Thump Wilderness, April 2020.  Wee Thump (in Paiute language meaning "ancient ones") is a desert forest of old-growth Joshua Trees located a few miles west of Searchlight, Nevada.  The featured birds in this recording are Great-horned Owls, Brewer's Sparrows and Cactus Wrens.

Wee Thump At Dawn

Kim Stringfellow is an artist, educator, writer and independent curator based in Joshua Tree, CA. Her work bridges cultural geography, public practice and experimental documentary into creative, socially engaged transmedia experiences. She is a 2016 Andy Warhol for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Claremont Graduate University in 2018. Stringfellow is a Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University’s School of Art + Design.

Track 1: Chris Plakos, LADWP Public Relations Officer

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