Video – A Year In The Smokies
I saw this on YouTube today. Enjoy.
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Category: Mountain Dreams
theOutpost: Clingmans Dome Sunrise
Clingmans Dome sunrise It’s that time of year – the leaves are changing, the nights are turning cold, and the Smokies are as beautiful as ever. Today we drove out before dawn (it was about 30 degrees and very windy in the higher elevations) to catch sunrise at Clingmans Dome. Us, and a bunch of other people! The mountains are
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Creating The Wild Center
Here is another video from Mountain Lake PBS. Nov 2020 Update. The video in the original post is no longer available. Try this as a replacement… There is a PDF available History of the Wild Center THE W!LD CENTER
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Bob Austin, PM Magazine – Hot Air Ballooning in the Tennessee Mountains
Dr. Dudley Fort takes his hot air balloon over Monteagle Mountain in Tennessee. Includes a short history of hot air balloons. Photographer/Editor: Trey Haney
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A Beautiful Remembrance Of Fall
I have been wandering around on YouTube today. I found this video a particularly beautiful ode to autumn…I hope you enjoy. Nov 2020 Update This video no longer embeds. Click on the image to go to the website housing the video… It’s worth it still.
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Dan Traveling – Little River Railroad and Lumber Company, Townsend, TN
Here’s a neat documentary from the Dan Traveling YouTube channel… A video tour of the Little River Railroad and Lumber Company. Ride down the rails from the Great Smoky Mountains and see the places and hear the stories about this golden era in East Tennessee history. The Little River Lumber Company and the Little River Railroad operate a museum in Townsend,
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Great Smoky Mtns. Expwy.
Here is a YouTube video that virtually takes you along the Great Smoky Mountains Expressway…Enjoy the trip. This video follows the Great Smoky Mountains Expressway (US 74/441) between Dillsboro and exit 74 (US 441 North – Gatlinburg/Great Smoky Mountains National Park). US 23/441 diverge at US 74. US 23 follows US 74 east toward Waynesville and Asheville; while US 441 follows
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Atlanta’s Stone Mountain: A Multicultural History (GA)
There is of special significance for my family with the history of Stone Mountain out of Atlanta. Most of which is unknown to the present generations. My Great-Great-Grandfather was living just south of Stone Mountain in Henry and Dekalb Counties in the 1840’s and early ’50’s. When his first wife died he packed up the family and moved to Texas where he
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Adirondack Life Blog Archive » Legend of the Fall
Even though 40 tree-generations have passed since the glaciers, equilibrium has yet to be established, according to Forests & Trees of the Adirondack High Peaks Region by Edwin H. Ketchledge. Species still compete for territory, he writes, in an ebb and flow of fire, climate, insect and fungal attacks, land use and logging. Ketchledge’s book, first published by the Adirondack
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