"And I also knew how important music was in my own life,and how much fun, and what a sense of community the music of the mountains brings."
VOA: standard.2010.08.02
Lifein these remote mountains, for centuries pinched tightly between the Ottoman and Persian empires, has shaped the resilient, resistant nature of the Kurdish character.
The park covers more than 800 square miles inthe Southern Appalachian Mountains and boasts a diversity of plants and animal life, and is known for its beauty.