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Trailside Talk: Did Charlie Have a Bunion?
Charlies Bunion will never be mistaken for one of the Great Smoky Mountains’ majestic peaks.
It is rugged and ragged—a sort of obstructive bump on the landscape near Mount Le Conte, its much more impressive neighbor. But the Bunion is worth a look, either onsite or from nearby trails. And in a park noted for ridge after ridge of
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Marker to Honor Japanese Photographer George Masa, a New Kind of Picture-Maker
Most people know that North Carolina and Tennessee share the most visited park in the nation, and that the total number of visitors to the Smokies in 2021 exceeded 14 million.
But many may not yet know that one of the figures responsible for the Smokies even becoming a park was a sprightly Japanese man with a big grin, a clunky camera that was
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Image for the Asking: The Many Connections of a Small, Nameless Stream
Story and image by Don McGowan
Although you may not be familiar with it, the wet weather creek in this image is associated with the founding history of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. As far as I know, the stream at this point in its journey has no name, though it will eventually merge its waters into Walker Camp Prong—half of West
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Research on George Masa is Focus of New Podcast Episode
By Frances Figart, Creative Services Director
Today is the anniversary of the death of George Masa, a small Japanese man who, in the early 20th century, made a big impact on those who knew him in the Asheville area and in the Smokies. An episode of GSMA’s new podcast Smoky Mountain Air is dedicated to him and ongoing research into
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