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Magnolias not just a Deep South species
Published: 2011-05-17 20:50:42Mention magnolias and images of plantations and mint juleps come to mind. But here in Western North Carolina we have an array of magnolia species that thrive in an upland hardwoods setting. These trees are most noticeable, of course, in spring or early s...
Read MoreMany buildings certifiably green; others just follow the LEED
Published: 2011-05-17 19:41:15What do Harrill Residence Hall at Western Carolina University, the Cherokee Central School System, the new Oconaluftee Visitor Center in the Smokies and the firehouse in Sylva have in common? Each of these projects help make a whole: they are part of a b...
Read MoreA treasure that deserves reprinted in 1933 ‘Guide’
Published: 2011-05-10 20:55:29More than a few readers of this column collect books associated with the Smokies region. A friend who spends most of his waking hours either fishing the backcountry trout waters in the Smokies or plotting ways to do so brought what he called “an intere...
Read MoreNative cougars no longer grace these mountains
Published: 2011-05-03 20:30:55Have you ever seen a mountain lion here in the Smokies region? I haven’t. In fact, the only one I’ve ever viewed outside of a zoo was somewhere near Crystal River, Fla., back in the early 1990s. It bounded out of the scrub in front of my truck and pa...
Read MoreA look back at Kephart’s cabin
Published: 2011-04-26 20:23:38As part of this coming weekend’s third annual Horace Kephart Day, a group of 20 or so participants will visit Kephart’s cabin site on Hazel Creek, where he resided from 1904-1907. In that regard, I thought it would be appropriate to revisit a Back Th...
Read MoreKephart Days: Bryson City gearing up to honor, remember writer
Published: 2011-04-26 20:09:55Luke Hyde is too young to remember Horace Kephart, but his parents and grandparents knew the great American outdoor writer well when the St. Louis transplant was living in the Bryson City area. “He was a highly talented man who did some good things. Ho...
Read MoreNew GSMNP visitor center is worth a trip
Published: 2011-04-20 12:33:39This past Friday (April 15) I attended the dedication ceremony for the new Oconaluftee Visitor Center on the North Carolina side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cherokee. I wouldn’t normally enjoy a program made up of eight or so speech...
Read MoreBook captures the essence of waterfalls
Published: 2011-04-12 19:59:45Flowing water was the primary agent that sculpted the mountains as we know them today. Long before the first Europeans arrived, the ancient Cherokees had developed ceremonials focused on the spiritual power of running water. One of the prized sites for s...
Read MoreIn the beginning… some very eloquent sentences
Published: 2011-04-05 19:58:52As I begin writing this it’s midnight, April 4-5, 2011. When insomnia strikes I always look for something to read. At times I just rummage around in various books rereading and studying familiar passages. Some were encountered in recent years — other...
Read MoreA blemish by any other name
Published: 2011-03-29 19:46:34Systems of mature trees and shrubs are covered with blemishes that signal age: cankers, seams, burls, butt scars, sterile conks, and protrusions in the form of bracket fungi. Cankers are diseases in which lesions caused by a wide range of fungi and bacte...
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