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Kephart’s fast friendship with the Barnetts
Published: 2009-10-14 15:50:00I have nothing to add to Gary Carden’s perceptive review of Horace Kephart’s posthumous novel Smoky Mountain Magic (Great Smoky Mountains Association, 2009) that appeared in last week’s “Smoky Mountain News.” I do, however, have a query regardi...
Read MoreCosta’s eye for unique insect details
Published: 2009-10-07 15:28:00Western Carolina University biologist Jim Costa traces his interest in insect societies to studies of social interactions of caterpillars made while an undergraduate at the State University of New York at Cortland, an interest that deepened as he worked ...
Read MoreStorytelling traditions live on
Published: 2009-09-30 19:10:00Naturalist, herbalist, lecturer, writer, adventure trip leader, folklorist and prize-winning harmonica player Doug Elliott has a new book. Titled Swarm Tree: Of Honeybees, Honeymoons, and the Tree of Life (Charleston, SC: The History Press; soft cover; 1...
Read MoreDocumentary tells captivating tale about the creation of GSMNP
Published: 2009-09-23 18:36:00When America tunes in to Ken Burns’ long-awaited documentary on the national parks next week, the hard-fought battle to save the Great Smoky Mountains from unrelenting timber barrons will play a major role in the epic series. The story of the Smokies w...
Read MoreRevealing a love for the Smokies
Published: 2009-09-23 18:15:00Angler and writer Harry Middleton (1949-1993) is an elusive figure. Except for what he chose to reveal in his books — which are part memoir and part novel — little is known, outside of family and friends, about his too brief life. But the books speak...
Read MoreA gifted writer, a great naturalist
Published: 2009-09-16 15:49:00Those of you who enjoy reading books about the Smokies should make an effort to locate a copy of Hidden Valley of the Smokies: With a Naturalist in the Great Smoky Mountains (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1971) by Ross E. Hutchins. It is one of more informative ...
Read MoreZahner’s special affection for Highlands
Published: 2009-09-09 14:47:00Biologist and ecologist Robert Zahner (1923-2007) was born in Summerville, S.C., and grew up in Atlanta. But his adopted “spiritual home” was the elevated plateau on the southeastern cusp of the Blue Ridge where Highlands is situated. Through the yea...
Read MoreA natural passion for history
Published: 2009-09-02 14:28:00Naturalist, photographer and writer Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) was born in Joliet, Ill. American nature writing in descriptive prose inevitably flows from Henry David Thoreau, that insistent observer of the commonplace. John Burroughs, his 19th century ...
Read MoreAbbey’s tenure at ‘Redneck U’
Published: 2009-08-26 14:53:00Radical ecologist and writer Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was born in Home, Penn., the son of a hardscrabble farmer and a schoolteacher. Hitchhiking as an adolescent through the western United States initiated a lifelong identity with that region. After bein...
Read MorePreserving Cherokee tradition
Published: 2009-08-19 14:29:00Anthropologist James Mooney (1861-1921) devoted his life to detailing various aspects of the history, material culture, oral tradition, language, arts, and religion of the Eastern Cherokee, Cheyenne, Sioux, Kiowa, and other tribes, adding a new dimension...
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