What Do Black Bears Eat? Do They Have a Favorite Food?
Let’s get this out of the way right here at the top: Full disclosure? I have eaten bear. It was a family gathering in Northern Indiana at Christmas. And among
Let’s get this out of the way right here at the top: Full disclosure? I have eaten bear. It was a family gathering in Northern Indiana at Christmas. And among
The road to Smoky Hollow – a new glampground located in Sevierville – was a long one … literally. More than four years ago, Rebecca Turner and her husband sold
It’s been more than 100 years since mountain lions – referred to as panthers by the mountain folk – lived in the Smokies. But, it’s very hard to convince anybody
The year was 1980 and the Olympics dominated the news. The United States bested the heavily favored Russians in hockey and held on to claim the gold medal. It was
Some people get to live in the shadow of Notre Dame. Not the college, mind you, but the Parisian cathedral – which I suppose is a shell now. But for
There’s a road running across the mountains connecting Tellico Plains, Tennessee to Robbinsville, North Carolina. And if you catch it on the right day, when the sky is the right
In the year 1875, the people of the Harrisburg community located east of Sevierville proved they knew not to make the same mistake twice. The original bridge over the relatively
“He was right on course,” the Civil Air Patrol Major explained to a Chicago newspaper in the winter of 1983. “He was just a little low.” Ernest Martin, founder and
There’s something about the mountain sky at night, especially when it’s cold and crisp and the air can sting your lungs. When you get up in the high mountains where
There’s a treasure hiding in the Great Smoky Mountains. And no, it doesn’t come bubbling up from the depths in thick, black crude. And you can’t pan for it, or