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Kudzu’s unstoppable march across the South
Published: 2012-09-12 13:10:05Few people want to get close enough to observe the attractive flowers that kudzu produces. The plant probably won’t actually reach out and grab you — but then again, it might. One of the many kudzu jokes that has emerged in the southeastern United St...
Read MoreHollyhocks and reminders of the past
Published: 2012-09-10 17:54:21Sometimes it’s difficult to draw the line between the natural and cultivated plant worlds. As cultivated plants escape they often establish themselves as part of our regional flora. My wife, Elizabeth, and I are particularly fond of those old-fashioned...
Read MoreThe golden season
Published: 2012-09-10 17:13:57It’s starting to become the goldenrod time of the year. Goldenrods — like asters, thistles, cosmos, zinnias, daisies, coneflowers, dahlias, sunflowers, ragworts, hawkweeds, etc. — belong to the vast “Asteraceae” family that numbers almost 20,00...
Read MoreGinkgo — a living fossil
Published: 2012-09-10 16:40:13When a street was being cut in front of the new county administration building here in Bryson City back in the 1980s, a large foreign-looking tree could well have been felled in the name of progress. But resident R.P. Jenkins convinced authorities to pav...
Read MoreDueling was a common way to right a wrong
Published: 2012-09-05 03:06:26Let’s suppose that you intentionally or unintentionally insult someone; after all, that’s something that does happen from time to time. You deal with it by apologizing or refusing to apologize. There may be words. The possibility of a little fisticuf...
Read MoreKeith was among best early geologists to visit this region
Published: 2012-08-29 13:10:19Numerous geologists have visited the Smokies region. None was more observant than Arthur Keith. The Murphy Marble Belt is an elongated, lens-shaped mass of marble and related sedimentary materials up to three miles wide that extends in a crescent from no...
Read MoreThe unique habitat of mountain streams
Published: 2012-08-22 13:42:12The creeks and streams of the Southern Highlands are one of the most exciting natural areas we have. Unlike most upland habitats — which generally occur as blocks or patches or elevational zones — streams form winding corridors that afford varied nic...
Read MoreKephart Days pays tribute to Smokies icon
Published: 2012-08-22 13:34:03The life and contributions of Horace Kephart, an outdoor writer, folklorist and founder of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, will be remembered and celebrated with the annual Kephart Days in Bryson City Sept. 7-9.. Kephart was pivotal in making th...
Read MoreEllison to lead reading at Rickman Store
Published: 2012-08-21 20:30:40Writer and naturalist George Ellison will read from his new collection of poems, Permanent Camp, at the Rickman Store at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 31.. Ellison is the author of Blue Ridge Nature Journal, Mountain Passages, and the two volume collection High...
Read MoreRemarkable red cedar
Published: 2012-08-17 17:48:24I sometimes have occasion to drive Interstate 81 up the Great Valley of Tennessee and Virginia to Washington, D.C. As soon as I pass out of Western North Carolina into the terrain north of Knoxville, the dominant tree along the roadside becomes red cedar...
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