On Saturday, March 31, the Watauga Valley Railroad Historical Society & Museum will sponsor its “Spring 2012 Excursion” — a train ride on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad through the breathtaking Nantahala Gorge in Western North Carolina. The excursion will feature the majestic Smoky Mountains and the beautiful countryside of Western North Carolina in all [...]
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If you haven’t discovered Tipper’s blog Blind Pig & The Acorn yet, this is a good time to wander on over. Tipper has a guest post by Jim Casada about the Thanksgiving traditions of his youth in the Smoky Mountains. Go on over and check it out… For me personally, it is a day when nostalgia reigns [...] How A Town Got Its Name Webster – Twilight was slipping down on the little mountain village and fate was trudging along the road that wound up out of the valley to the east. Oil lamps were beginning to wink from windows among the thinly scattered houses along the wagon-rutted, red clay street. A [...] “To photograph truthfully is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live in all things.” – Ansel Adams (landscape photographer, 1902-1984) Time is an element in each moment of our lives. Everything we do like driving to work, taking a vacation or even capturing a photograph occurs [...] |
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