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Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she's tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943. As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health, the bond between the childless midwife and the motherless teen grows strong. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
vii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the farmer who finds a Cavern of Skulls to a moonshiner who makes a deal with a water demon, and the Half Shaved ghost seeking vengeance to the first (and only) meeting of the Asheville Ghost Club, the Great Smoky Mountains and its foothills abound with spooky tales"--
Series
Publisher
Wildsam Field Guides
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
151 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this fresh look at America's most visited national park, explore the Smokies' hills and hollows alongside wildlife biologists, trolley drivers, potters, park rangers, Cherokee language advocates, naturalists and more."--
Author
Publisher
Anomolaic Press
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
For more than twenty-five years as host of WBIR-TV, Knoxville, Tennessee's The Heartland Series, and 2,000 television episodes, Bill's been spinning years and telling tales about the people of east Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains. Now, finally, in A last Hurrah, he's telling his own story.
Publisher
Centre Communications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 1 hr., 16 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Great Smoky Mountains National Park rests in the geographic province known as the Blue Ridge Mountains, named for their distinctive blue appearance when seen from a distance. The park covers over 500,000 acres of breath-taking beauty, filled with lush highland meadows, glorious waterfalls, pristine mountain streams, the highest mountain tops in the Appalachians and, to crown it all, it encompasses one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Oconaluftee Valley, located on the North Carolina side of the Smokies, is home of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians and part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). This seemingly isolated valley has an epic tale to tell. Elizabeth Giddens offers a deeply researched and elegantly written account of Oconaluftee and its people from Indigenous settlements to the establishment of the national park by Franklin...
Author
Publisher
Gary Claude Jenkins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
36 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"The two subjects sketched here are of a hardworking, Christian-minded farm wife and her optimistic, young granddaughter who lived along the Little Tennessee River in the 1900s. Their experiences are time and place specific - the first, the back-woods mountain farms of Graham and Swain counties, North Carolina at the turn of 1900, spanning to and beyond the land and cultural changes of the Tennessee Valley Authority's 1940s Fontana Dam. The second...
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