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A Road Less Traveled
Sparked by the gruesome killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman, America has seen widespread protest marches and rallies to honor Floyd and to denounce racism and police brutality. Horrified by Floyd’s death, most Americans support these e Read more
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Get Along, Little Doggie
My grandfather had two farms. One was down Old Russellville Pike where he kept pigs and grew a little tobacco and hay. He had cattle too—a nice herd of Herefords, that stocky, breed of beef cattle with the red coat and white face. Read more
Aug 1, 2020
Hornets’ Nest
My dog Bandit and I often walk down our rural road, passing a pasture where cows come to the fence to watch us. Recently I looked up at the winter-white sky and spied a large hornets’ nest hanging from a sycamore tree. Read more
Jun 1, 2020
Southern Bookstores
There is something hauntingly seductive about old Southern second-hand bookstores that draws me like honeybees to nectar. I descend a step that is not quite where I expect it to be, to enter what some would see as just an old house filled with books. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
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A Conversation with the Smokies’ History Guardian
Baird Todd has done collections and museum curation work at National Park Service units across the country, but since November 2016 he’s been the curator at the at the National Park Service Collections Preservation Center in Townsend, Tennessee. Read more
Feb 1, 2020
‘Let the Mountain People Tell Their Own Stories’
The world of cultural research in the Great Smoky Mountains lost one of its foremost scholars with the passing of Dr. Michael Montgomery on July 24, 2019. Read more
Feb 1, 2020
