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Shagbark hickory among the most interesting in WNC
Published: 2013-12-18 15:47:01The walnut family is relatively small, but it contains some of the more interesting and valuable tree species found in Western North Carolina. In WNC there are only two genera, the walnuts (Juglans) and the hickories (Carya). . Ash trees, which belong to...
Read MoreCherokee homes were warm and smoky in winter
Published: 2013-12-04 16:41:05“Two or more Families join together in building a hot-house, about 30 feet Diameter, and 15 feet high, in form of a Cone, with Poles and thatched, without any air-hole, except a small door about 3 feet high and 18 Inches wide. In the Center of the hot-...
Read MoreThe perversity of inanimate objects: logging then and now
Published: 2013-11-19 21:21:21Some steam and water-powered sawmills were established in the Smokies region during the 1870s and 1880s. But full-fledged industrialized logging didn’t commence until after the construction of the major railroads was finalized in the 1890s. This opened...
Read MoreEllison to lecture on ‘spring greens’
Published: 2013-10-23 13:44:52Award winning naturalist and writer George Ellison will present a lecture titled “Edible, Utilitarian, and Religio-Medical Plants Used by the Cherokees” at 7 p.m. Nov. 4 at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. . The lecture will consider the ...
Read MoreUnusual geographic locations always get my attention
Published: 2013-10-16 14:00:25Some of my happiest times here in the Blue Ridge have been those hours spent locating grassy balds, gorges, sinkholes, boulderfields, wind forests, beech gaps, cove hardwoods, bogs, and the like. I have discovered that the things you truly find — those...
Read MoreThe secret ministry of frost
Published: 2013-10-09 03:06:35It’s early October as I write this column. The first frost hasn’t, as yet, arrived. But it won’t be long coming. . The first frost serves as a given year’s most distinctive dividing line. It’s hard to pinpoint just when winter becomes spring, w...
Read MoreWolves have special place in regional lore
Published: 2013-10-03 01:45:20I’ve never seen a timber wolf, even though they no doubt once roamed — from time to time — across the little valley west of Bryson City where I reside. Elk have been reintroduced in the Smokies. Based upon the numerous reported sightings, it’s li...
Read MoreBuckeyes still beguile nature lovers
Published: 2013-09-11 14:41:05A large yellow buckeye tree overhangs and supports the swinging gate that accesses our property. The tree has started to drop the unique fruiting structures for which it is named. Year around, it always has something interesting going on. . In winter, yo...
Read MoreDeep Creek offers a great taste of the Smokies
Published: 2013-08-28 03:55:37We are attracted to water. Mountain paths always wind down to water — springs, branches, creeks and rivers. Water is the essence of our very being here in the mountains. Deep Creek on the North Carolina side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park p...
Read MoreA favorite time to watch the home garden
Published: 2013-08-21 14:14:24This time of the year is perhaps the best time to enjoy flowering plants in a home garden. Many of the larger and showier species are just now coming into full bloom and will remain so into fall. Several evenings ago, I came home tired and sat on the dec...
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