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New children’s book celebrates salamanders with rhyme and color - (opens the original)
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Diane Lang calls herself a “nature gossip.” “I’m not a biologist. I’m not a scientist. But when I learn something fun about nature, I just have to tell people,” she said. Children’s books are her preferred medium, and her newest title, “So Many Salamanders!,” is dedicated to spreading the news about the Smokies’ incredible diversity of salamander species. Illustrated by Katy Tanis, the book is published by Smokies Life with editing from Frances Figart and design from Karen Key. It introduces eac
Word from the Smokies: New book collects wonders of the Smokies for nature lovers - (opens the original)
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No matter where you were in the world, spring 2020 was a time of fear and uncertainty. The expanding COVID-19 pandemic prompted prevention measures that would have previously been unthinkable: closures of schools, restaurants, and even public lands like Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It was amid this backdrop that Frances Figart, creative services director for Smokies Life (then called Great Smoky Mountains Association), met with Marketing Coordinator Elly Wells for a brainstorming session
Word from the Smokies: New book collects wonders of the Smokies for nature lovers - (opens the original)
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No matter where you were in the world, spring 2020 was a time of fear and uncertainty. The expanding COVID-19 pandemic prompted prevention measures that would have previously been unthinkable: closures of schools, restaurants, and even public lands like Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It was amid this backdrop that Frances Figart, creative services director for Smokies Life (then called Great Smoky Mountains Association), met with Marketing Coordinator Elly Wells for a brainstorming session
Word from the Smokies: Managing invasive hogs is a never-ending job - (opens the original)
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When George Gordon Moore imported the first European wild boars to Graham County, North Carolina, in April 1912, neither he nor anyone else who would later attempt to hunt them fully understood how formidable a quarry these animals would prove to be. Moore kept his boars in a 500-acre split-rail enclosure built nine rails high — but even this impressive structure was insufficient to contain them. As adults, the boar stood about three feet at the shoulder and could weigh more than 400 pounds, wie
Word from the Smokies: Quilting stitched Appalachian communities together - (opens the original)
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On a May Saturday more than 100 years ago, friends and family gathered at the home of Willis Willocks of Friendsville, Tennessee, to celebrate his 35th birthday. After enjoying a three-course noon meal and presenting Willocks with his gifts, the guests spent the afternoon sewing quilt squares, “making him [Willocks] a real nice quilt, each square bearing the name of the giver,” The Maryville Times reported in its May 12, 1920, edition. The archives of this and other regional newspapers are full
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