Pat Conroy

a small island was made famous by Pat Conroy's novel The Water is Wide, based on Hilton Head's time teaching African American students in a one-room schoolhouse on the island.

Cecil Sharp

The Water Is Wide' was consolidated and named by Cecil Sharp in 1906 from multiple older sources in southern England, following English lyrics with very different stories and styles but the same meter.

the well know ,

Of course, Pat Conroy is the well know lowcountry author of such notable novels as The Water is Wide (1972), The Great Santini (1976), The Lords of Discipline (1980), The Prince of Tides (1986), Beach Music (1995), and South of Broad (2008).

by Natalie Banks (Author), Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator)

The Water is Wide by Natalie Banks (Author), Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator), – Reading Around The Genres by Debbie W.

a novel by the American writer Alfred Kern

The Width of Waters is a novel by the American writer Alfred Kern.

by Rene Clausen

112 by Johannes Brahms; Rembrances of Love by James McCray; Estampie Natalis by Vaclav Nelhybel; Kyrie from Memorial, and “The Water is Wide” by Rene Clausen.

Christopher Killerby

On Greensleeves, Edward Elgar's Chanson de Matin, and Christopher Killerby's The Water is Wide.

Thomas Wolfe

The Water is Wide, is somewhat of an exposé, chronicling Thomas Wolfe's experiences teaching poor, disadvantaged children on Daufuskie Island, off the coast of South Carolina.

Joan Baez, Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter

Joan Baez, Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter sing “The Water Is Wide,” a traditional song rearranged by Joan Baez, during the Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration at the Beacon Theatre in New York on January 27, 2016.

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The Water is Wide is a beautiful song which I have sung and played for about a dozen years or so now, I had never considered doing about a dozen years until I heard James Taylor do a great version of about a dozen years .

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman's book’s an ocean, as all great books are.

master storyteller Guillermo del Toro

From master storyteller Guillermo del Toro, comes The Shape of Water – an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963.

Renée Fleming

Renée Fleming chose the song “The Water Is Wide,” and Renée Fleming's brain activity was measured as Renée Fleming spoke, sang, and imagined singing the words.

Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer already had written of a long, wide river, but Tom Sawyer's time spent on the Neckar River is believed to have given Tom Sawyer the inspiration necessary to finish the novel when the family returned to the U.S.

A member of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in San Francisco , Lindsey Crittenden

A member of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in San Francisco, Lindsey Crittenden is the author of The Water

Matthew Gandy

In this book, Matthew Gandy considers the cultural and material significance of water through the experiences of six cities: Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.

by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut

A Story of Water (French: Une histoire d'eau) is a short film directed and written by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut in 1958.