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The rushing of wind through a hemlock
Published: 2011-03-22 20:08:53From my window, as I write this, I can see across the creek and down into a pasture where my wife’s horse is grazing. The creek and pasture are lined with trees and shrubs: maple, basswood, rosebay rhododendron, spicebush, beech, tulip poplar, ash, but...
Read MoreWolf lore
Published: 2011-03-16 13:51:14In the beginning, the people say, the dog was put on the mountain and the wolf beside the fire. When winter came the dog could not stand the cold, so he came down to the settlement and drove the wolf from the fire. The wolf ran to the mountains, where it...
Read MoreCherokee’s own big fish legend
Published: 2011-03-15 19:50:24Editor’s note: This George Ellison column first appeared in The Smoky Mountain News in March 2005. “Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the Fish’s belly …. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round abou...
Read MoreArchery lessons with James Dickey
Published: 2011-03-08 21:24:09During the course of a recent interview for a literary magazine, I was asked: While in grad school at the University of South Carolina, you began an association with James Dickey. What was it like to hang out with one of the leading poets of the day?” ...
Read MoreWalking a mountain gives it life
Published: 2011-03-01 21:16:00Hiking a designated trail involves prescribed origins and destinations, whether it be a four-mile jaunt from Clingman’s Dome to Siler’s Bald in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park or a 2,000-mile trek from north Georgia to Maine along the Appalac...
Read MoreA first-hand account of the Indian wars
Published: 2011-02-22 21:11:46I spent some time last week reading about the 18th-century Indian wars in Western North Carolina. These were the Cherokee battles with the British along the Little Tennessee and Tuckaseigee rivers in 1760 and 1761, as well as the Rutherford expedition in...
Read MoreTragedy and the Ghost Dance’s demise
Published: 2011-02-15 21:02:55( Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series regarding the Cherokee Ghost Dance.) A recent column focused on a so-called Ghost Dance movement that took place among the Cherokees in 1811-13. That, of course, was almost 80 years before the in...
Read MoreOil lamps are useful… and nostalgic
Published: 2011-02-08 20:47:27Editor’s note: The second installment in George Ellison’s research into the Ghost Dance has been delayed due to the inability to reach certain sources. Look for the article in next week’s Smoky Mountain News. This article first appeared in SMN in F...
Read MoreGhost Dance has a long history in Cherokee
Published: 2011-02-01 21:22:12( Note: This is part one of a two-part series regarding the Cherokee Ghost Dance. Part two will present Michelene Ethe Pesantubbee’s conclusions and perspectives on the movement.) The belief in the coming of a messiah, or deliverer, who shall restore h...
Read MoreDogs that make our lives whole
Published: 2011-01-25 21:25:42If you don’t like dogs, come back next week. Dogs have been an integral part of my life since I was a boy. My first dog -– part something, part something else –- was named Rascal. He was my boyhood buddy. I was a sophomore in college when Rascal ha...
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