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Navigating the waterways of WNC
Published: 2011-12-21 15:13:03When one thinks about navigation in regard to the rivers here in the Smokies region, it’s old-time ferries and modern-day canoes, kayaks, rafts, tubes, and motorboats that come to mind. But there have been other sorts of navigation involving flatboats,...
Read MoreThe light of winter is ‘tricky business’
Published: 2011-12-13 21:58:46Winter Light So much light in what we call the dark of the year, a flashing and glittering of light … Should it surprise us, having known the holes of darkness in the longest days? — William Bronk, “A Bright Day in December” from The World, The W...
Read MoreGoing back to explain ‘back of beyond’
Published: 2011-12-07 14:45:58Most of us at one time or another hanker for a place where we can get away from it all for awhile … recharge our batteries as it were. But some yearn for a place where they can hide away …begin all over again. Like Huck tells Jim at the end of The Ad...
Read MoreFeeling sprightlier on an early winter day
Published: 2011-11-29 21:40:34Sometimes I find myself walking without having made a conscious decision to do so. My body seems to feel the need for a stroll without having consulted my brain. My feet find their way, as if they had eyes of their own. I like such moments … when I don...
Read MoreThanksgiving and lungwort bread
Published: 2011-11-23 15:15:56I have perused Kephart’s Camping and Woodcraft many times, but somehow or other had consistently overlooked his entry on lungwort bread (vol. 1, pp. 324-325): On the bark of maples, and sometimes of beeches and birches, in the northern woods, there gro...
Read MoreA poetic tribute from a son of the Smokies
Published: 2011-11-16 14:29:27The second volume of an anthology of nature writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smokies that I edited will be published in a couple of weeks by The History Press in Charleston, S.C. The first volume (1674-1900) offers selections from 21 aut...
Read MoreCity Lights celebrates the new edition of ‘Camping and Woodcraft’
Published: 2011-11-16 14:14:32City Lights Bookstore will celebrate the release of the new edition of Horace Kephart’s classic, Camping and Woodcraft, at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19. Included in the new edition are over 40 historic photographs taken by Kephart and George Masa. Many ...
Read MoreGinseng, ferns and an ancient dialect
Published: 2011-11-08 20:25:16“Sang” redux. Several weeks ago I wrote about ginseng. I have, in fact, been writing about ginseng for years. There seems to be a never-ending general interest in the plant. Its only rival would be ramps. Come spring, I will no doubt be writing about...
Read MoreMasks are mirrors looking back at us
Published: 2011-11-01 20:10:12A mask is a mechanism employed to cover the face as a protective screen or disguise. For protection, they have been utilized for centuries by medieval horsemen, welders, fencers, hockey goalies, and so on. Their most intriguing uses, however, have been a...
Read MoreNew biography reveals insight into life of early Smokies writer
Published: 2011-10-26 13:21:53Author George Ellison will be conducting a book signing at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Wednesday, Oct. 26, and Saturday, Nov. 5, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ellison is the co-author of the introduction to the new e...
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