MID-9th CENTURY: Monks construct a mile-long stone causeway, bisecting a small village, in what is now Oxfordshire, England, east to west.

SPRING 2009: In Steventon, Oxfordshire, songwriter / principal heretic Jason Sebastian Russo and a constituency of british pop talent hauled several half-tuned guitars, myriad scraps of rusty metal and a piano with a knee-high flood watermark into a cow barn on Hill Farm, (home of the 13-year-old Truck music festival). So was born There Is A Mountain, the first album by Common Prayer.