Released in March 2026, This is an excellent historical take on the pioneers of West Virginia whitewater.\u00a0 These guys ran the gnarliest water, invented squirt boating and striding and led\u00a0 us all into the fantastic whitewater of West Virginia.\u00a0 This is the published description:<\/p>\n
Mountain River Media presents the award winning ‘Freeland ~ A Blackwater Story’. The documentation of the early history of steep creeking on the Blackwater River in Northern West Virginia, and the community that developed around the culture of whitewater kayaking. In association with Thompson Sky Productions. Written by Justin Harris and Will Fortune. Starring Roger Zbel, John Regan, Jeff Snyder, Mike Moore, Art Barket, Dan Sullivan, Brian Homberg, Jim Snyder, Phil Coleman, Sue Haywood, and Kevin “Big Bird” Sessler. Executive Producer Meridian Treehouse. Sound Design by Will Fortune. Motion Graphics by Jim Gravina. “History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it.” ~Edward Hallett Carr~<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Released in March 2026, This is an excellent historical take on the pioneers of West Virginia whitewater.\u00a0 These guys ran the gnarliest water, invented squirt boating and striding and led\u00a0 us all into the fantastic whitewater of West Virginia.\u00a0 This is the published description: Mountain River Media presents the award winning ‘Freeland ~ A Blackwater […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","aiovg_categories":[5,11,10,21,18],"aiovg_tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","aiovg_videos","type-aiovg_videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","aiovg_categories-documentaries","aiovg_categories-history","aiovg_categories-people-and-paddlers","aiovg_categories-westvirginiausa","aiovg_categories-whitewaterfirstdescents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aiovg_videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aiovg_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"aiovg_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}