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JMU professors and students on the first annual Shenandoah Sojourn - 2003 - Photo by Mindi Westhoff — JMU professors and students on the first annual Shenandoah Sojourn – 2003 – Photo by Mindi Westhoff

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“A Bend in the River” was published in Madison, The Magazine of James Madison University, summer 2007.

“In May 2003, several JMU professors and students formed the core of the first annual expedition known as The Shenandoah Sojourn. ‘It was an attempt to build a community around water,’ says Tom Benzing, professor of environmental toxicology in JMU’s integrated science and technology department, and the science leader of what was surely the wettest group of rafters ever to float down the Shenandoah River’s South Fork.”