Lessons learned from garden gnomes

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Wednesday, 30/04/2025

The garden gnomes stared at me from our cluttered carport, dirty and bored, no blooming flowers to observe or tomato vines to tickle their bellies. I was holding on to them well past their desire.  

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The rebirth of mountain chic: Waynesville Inn & Golf Club tees up its second century

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Wednesday, 30/08/2023

When old Jack Welch sold his Waynesville dairy farm to Jim Long in the early 1920s, he probably couldn’t have envisioned that it would one day become a top-notch golf club with stunning views of the Great Smoky Mountains and clubhouse amenities renowned throughout the southeast as some of the most luxurious. 

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