An honest review of the popular Cumberland Jack’s in Gatlinburg TN On a recent journey to downtown Gatlinburg, I was able to visit one of the relatively newer restaurants, Cumberland Jack’s Leconte Kitchen. The restaurant is a member of the KBS Restaurant Group, which includes other popular restaurants like Crockett’s Breakfast Camp, Five Oaks Kitchen and The Greenbrier – all
Many outlets, including our own, reported Popcorn Sutton had been diagnosed with cancer in his later years, this is the real story As someone whose newspaper covered the final trial of “Popcorn” Sutton, I don’t need Google to remember the milestones of the moonshiner’s final days. Today, we’re going to talk about a myth that’s grown up in the years
This is what it’s actually like to move to the tiny tourist town of Gatlinburg, TN – the gateway to the Smoky Mountains I fell in love with the Smoky Mountains and wanted to move when we arrived on vacation in 2011. But we didn’t get serious about it until about five years later. I felt much relief and excitement
Tennessee native talks little-known facts about the moonshine legend Almost everyone who grew up in and around Cocke County, Tennessee is familiar with the legend of Popcorn Sutton. Some view him as a folk hero, and others view him as a criminal. Still, his name is synonymous with one of the county’s greatest claims to fame: Real mountain moonshine. Born
A look at Dolly Parton’s childhood and Tennessee Mountain Home Dolly Parton was born into a world on the cusp of seismic change. She was the fourth of Avie Lee and Robert Parton’s 12 children. And she came into the world in a manner familiar to many East Tennesseans of her generation. She has traveled from crushing poverty to a
Local weighs pros and cons of the rebranded Ober Mountain If you want to learn about inertia, there are worse places than a mountain top. For many years, Ober Gatlinburg made its money in inertia – skiing, tubing and summer sledding. But over time, another type of inertia set in. Ober was in decline. The quality was lessening. Other places
A look at the Biltmore Estate, from today’s standards In the 1880s, George Washington Vanderbilt II came to the mountains with a dream. He also came with the type of generational wealth typically reserved for kings and pharaohs. So when Vanderbilt wanted a summer house, he purchased nearly 700 parcels of land – 50 farms and at least five cemeteries
A look at the popular show Moonshiners: What is fake, what is not If you’ve ever watched Discovery Channel’s hit TV show “Moonshiners”, you may have pondered at some point: Is this real life? The short answer is: No, not really. But here’s the question you should be asking: Is any of it real? With hundreds if not thousands of
What to know about snow tubing in the Smokies: Pricing, reservation requirements and more The Great Smoky Mountains area is a hugely popular winter destination. Though the winter weather may be unpredictable, you can still find places to enjoy snow tubing in Pigeon Forge and the surrounding areas on just about any given day: Rowdy Bear Snow Park (Pigeon Forge,
A history of Elkmont and what to know before you go What is known as the Elkmont ghost town is a former logging camp town and once-booming resort town near the Sevier-Blount County line in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. The first settlers in the 1800s were mostly hunters, homesteaders and small-scale loggers. IN THIS ARTICLE The history of