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Nothing like old-time boardinghouses
Published: 2011-01-18 20:11:30Are there boardinghouses still operating here in the Smokies region? There are, of course, hotels, inns, bed-and-breakfasts, and motels galore. But I’m wondering about the true, old-fashioned boardinghouse, which flourished throughout the region until ...
Read MoreComing across words to remember
Published: 2011-01-12 13:38:54Editor’s note: George Ellison is snowed in without an Internet connection. This column first appeared in The Smoky Mountain News in January 2003. Tuckaseigee, Oconaluftee, Heintooga, Wayah, Cullasaja, Hiwassee, Coweeta, Stecoah, Steestachee, Skeenah, N...
Read MoreA special place in the heart of arborists
Published: 2011-01-04 21:02:10Winter is the season for thinking about pines. For the ancient Orientals, pines signified dignity and vitality, especially in old age. In art, a wand tipped with a pine cone was often carried by the god or his supplicants. At the great spring festival in...
Read MoreA family full of marriage, but not quite bliss
Published: 2010-12-28 20:45:30Editor’s note: This George Ellison column was first published in December 2004. Most everyone agrees that marriage is a noble institution. But even in the best of situations it can be, at times, a demanding proposition. Some folks seem to be especially...
Read MoreBig fish of the Smokies
Published: 2010-12-21 20:54:31Each of us inhabits several landscapes. On the one hand, there is our everyday exterior topographic landscape. We call it reality. On the other there is our interior landscape … the world of imagination, dreams and nightmares. Whether we are aware of i...
Read MoreNoticing the little things of winter
Published: 2010-12-14 21:34:02Editor’s note: George Ellison, like many in the mountains, was snowed in and unable to get an internet connection. This column was first published in The Smoky Mountain News in 2005 I’m sure you’ve noticed it’s the little things that, in the long...
Read MoreImages etched in memory for a lifetime
Published: 2010-12-07 21:09:14I am fascinated by those images from the natural world that remain with us for a lifetime — almost as vivid as when first exposed — while most simply fade away. I have sometimes tried to capture in prose or verse or scribbled notes in a journal those...
Read MoreThe creek outside my window
Published: 2010-11-30 21:30:19I write this from my “office” (a spare room) at home. Looking out the window, I can see the creek that passes through our place. As a general rule, I spend more time watching the creek flow by my window than I do writing. We have lived beside this pa...
Read MoreKephart, transplants and the debate over legitimacy
Published: 2010-11-23 20:08:36You can be excused for perhaps having overlooked the recent fireworks, but a minor war has erupted over one of this region’s favorite sons (or, not-favorite sons). Pick your side. Horace Kephart, the definitive writer of Western North Carolina history ...
Read MoreA story about darkness, light and the red bird
Published: 2010-11-23 19:51:56Ho down down … Ho down dee Red bird dancin in custody Way down in New Orleans. Ho down down … Ho down dee A jailer stoned & barred the door: “Red bird soon be dark & dead.” Ho down down … Ho down dee Red bird dancin in custody Sang his song & f...
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