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Word from the Smokies: Couple will focus on insect field guide during park residency
Published: 2025-04-29 13:52:32Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the crown jewel of the Southern Appalachians, an ancient landscape teeming with life — including what naturalist and explorer William Bartram in 1791 called “insects of infinite variety,” many of them “admir...
Read MoreSmokies Life publishes George Masa biography
Published: 2024-09-11 15:10:42Smokies Life has announced the publication of “George Masa: A Life Reimagined,” the first comprehensively researched biography of the visionary Japanese photographer whose dedication to art and conservation helped spur the national park movement in t...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Playing with a full deck
Published: 2024-08-07 16:17:24Dear reader, yeah, I mean you. You who are reading this while holding the paper in your hands or scanning through on your computer, tablet or phone. Yeah, you. I am so deeply grateful to you for reading my articles. This marks the 52nd column that I have...
Read MoreAn artist's legacy: New database contributes to study of George Masa's photography
Published: 2024-01-03 17:00:19Angelyn Whitmeyer might be the last person you would expect to contribute to ongoing research surrounding a Japanese photographer who found inspiration in the Great Smoky Mountains. . And yet, the world is coming to know more about some sophisticated ear...
Read MoreFor the love of bison
Published: 2023-07-14 16:55:23When Cheryl Hillis started managing vacation rentals in Haywood County 15 years ago, Airbnb didn’t exist, reservations were made with phone calls and mailed checks, and she lived nowhere near Western North Carolina. . Hillis was the face of Buffalo Cre...
Read MoreFirst Smokies writers conference accepting applications
Published: 2023-04-12 16:06:36A bout this time last year, I was asked to be involved with designing the first-ever conference for writers to be held within the boundary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The inaugural Tremont Writers Conference is the coordinated effort of two e...
Read MoreIt’s in our blood
Published: 2023-04-05 15:58:35E ach spring I am struck by the beauty and encouraged by the support given by bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) as it emerges and begins its process of opening the flower and unfurling the leaf. The flower bud and leaf come up together, poking through t...
Read MoreWriter and naturalist George Ellison dies at 81
Published: 2023-02-22 15:11:25George Ellison, a writer and naturalist whose home and inspiration was on Lands Creek in Bryson City, died Sunday, Feb. 19, at the age of 81. . Ellison battled Parkinson’s disease for years and died from double pneumonia while receiving care from Haywo...
Read MoreGeorge Robert Ellison II — Thoreau in a jockstrap
Published: 2023-02-22 14:08:07Editor’s note: George Ellison, a renowned naturalist and writer who lived in Bryson City, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 19. Below is a tribute to Ellison by Don Hendershot. Ellison wrote hundreds of columns for The Smoky Mountain News, which can be read ...
Read MoreRenowned artists conserve their life’s inspiration
Published: 2022-12-21 16:31:44The last private property that Lands Creek crosses before entering the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Tuckasegee River is now conserved, thanks to Swain County residents George and Elizabeth Ellison. . The Ellisons have lived there since 197...
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