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GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Cool Digs

August 25, 2008 – 8:17 am

I used to dream about discovering Incan gold when I was a little kid… and then I took an archaeology class during high school and realized there was NO WAY I had the patience to slowly scrape dirt away and meticulously record where it came from. In six weeks of excavating, I also found [...]

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GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
“An Unimproved Work of God…”

May 29, 2008 – 11:47 am

Back in the 1920’s, logging companies were stripping these mountains bare and one of the motivations for creating a national park in the Smokies was to save what was left of the ancient forests east of the Mississippi.
Horace Kephart, a local writer and avid supporter of a national park, called the old-growth in the Smokies [...]

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