Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a massive inland peninsula, bordered by sections of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers that were permanently flooded as a part of FDR’s New Deal. The damming of the rivers in the mid 1900s submerged lots of little towns and farms and old family cemeteries. If you take a trip to the park and you have a boat, you can actually still see the ruins of some of the towns, deep beneath the surface. Humans changed this landscape, but now birds have claimed it - and they are flourishing. Come take a listen, 50 miles outside of Nashville, on the latest episode of Sound Escapes.