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Delving into the origin of Native American words
Published: 2016-12-28 16:42:11Editor’s note: This article was first published in The Smoky Mountain News in December 2003. Tuckaseigee, Oconaluftee, Heintooga, Wayah, Cullasaja, Hiwassee, Coweeta, Stecoah, Steestachee, Skeenah, Nantahala, Aquone, Katuwah, and on and on. Our place n...
Read MoreA new, excitable girl in our quiet cove
Published: 2016-12-14 18:03:37Essays and columns are difficult to categorize. Dividing them into the formal and informal is about all anyone can agree upon, if that. In retrospect, I can see that this one is a fine example of a type within the informal category I think of as the “r...
Read MoreWhen frost comes, we know winter has arrived
Published: 2016-11-30 16:38:29The first frost serves as a given year’s most distinctive dividing line. It’s hard to pinpoint just when winter becomes spring, when spring become summer, or when summer becomes fall. But the winter season has arrived when the first frost occurs. . L...
Read MoreGeorge Ellison releases new book, reflects on decades of life lived in nature
Published: 2016-11-30 16:24:16The Fourth of July, 1976, was just around the corner when George and Elizabeth Ellison embarked on a hike that would change their lives forever. The two were walking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park when their wandering brought them to the park...
Read MoreEllison releases new title
Published: 2016-11-30 16:21:34When George Ellison first started writing nature columns for the Asheville Citizen-Times back in 1986, it was with the assumption that, while he enjoyed such things, reader interest was likely limited and the column would be a short-lived venture. So, wh...
Read MoreThis must be the place: Stones sax player, improv legend rolls into WNC
Published: 2016-11-23 15:44:50It’s a whirlwind. With his group Tiny Universe, saxophonist Karl Denson seamlessly creates this vortex onstage, a sonic hub where jazz, rock, funk and soul collide, swirling around one another like a street fight with no determined victor. The sights a...
Read MoreCome winter, trees reveal their blemishes
Published: 2016-11-16 18:24:13Like an old man’s face, mature hardwood tree trunks are covered with blemishes that signal age: cankers, seams, burls, butt scars, sterile conks, and protrusions in the form of bracket fungi. Winter is the time to take a closer look at this somber side...
Read MoreWitch-hazel has adapted as a late flowering plant
Published: 2016-11-02 16:37:51Editor’s note: this article first appeared in a November 2003 edition of The Smoky Mountain News. If you take a walk along a woodland edge within the next few weeks, there’s every chance you’ll discover witch-hazel in full bloom. It sometimes flowe...
Read MoreRobin redbreasts are a perennial favorite
Published: 2016-10-19 16:24:54Our elementary school primers were populated by robins pulling worms out of holes. They appeared on television screens on Saturday mornings, hopping about in Disney cartoons that represented “the idea of a bird.” We know what a robin looks like in ou...
Read MoreBryson City and the widow Cline
Published: 2016-10-05 16:01:09Before the settlement named Charleston became the village named Bryson City in 1889, it was a tract of land known as Big Bear’s Reserve, which was itself located in the same general area as a Cherokee village that had been ravaged in 1761 by a British ...
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