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New discoveries enhance understanding of enigmatic Smokies photographer
Published: 2026-02-02 21:07:36From George Masa’s 1915 arrival in Asheville until his death in 1933, the trailblazing Japanese photographer explored the Smoky Mountains, mapping trails and capturing the region’s grandeur and beauty in photographs that helped make the case for the ...
Read MoreBook honors George Ellison
Published: 2025-06-18 14:06:15Elizabeth and Quintin Ellison will share their poetry and photography book created with the late George Ellison, “Land of Blue Shadows: Mountain Life in Verse & View,” at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. . This final post...
Read MoreWord from the Smokies: Bryson City painter reflects on a lifetime of art inspired by nature
Published: 2025-06-17 19:20:32E lizabeth Ellison was dealing almost strictly in watercolors when a logistical challenge transformed her painting career. It was 2013, and she was planning a one-person exhibition at the NC Arboretum in Asheville that would require to her to produce a p...
Read MoreUpcoming readings at City Lights Bookstore
Published: 2025-05-20 20:14:03The following events will be held at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. • Elizabeth and Quintin Ellison will present “Land of Blue Shadows: Mountain Life in Verse & View” — a poetry and photography collaboration with the late George Ellison — at 3...
Read MoreWord 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...
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