Today we tell the story of a man who refused to let a “disability” keep him down. Linguist, athlete, amateur astronomer, adventurer and genealogist James Brownlow Lawson from Sevier County,
Earlier this summer we took our YouTube viewers to the area around Fontana Lake to show them a road that was promised but never fully built. On today’s podcast episode,
Near Market Square in downtown Knoxville is Strong Alley. There you’ll find artwork painted on the building walls by local East Tennessee artists. The most notable work there is a
In the Smoky Mountains, north of Fontana Lake, you’ll find a road that suddenly ends at a tunnel. Lakeview Drive, or The Road To Nowhere, as it’s come to be
A man’s family in the Smoky Mountains community of Cade’s Cove is torn apart by the Civil War, with tragic results for him. Today we share that story. You can
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Every place has a name, and every name has its story…including the tourist destination of the Smokey Mountains, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Listen as we tell you the very interesting story of
On this day in 1932 the head of the Tennessee Department of Finance and Taxation, George R. Dempster of Knoxville, was elected chairman of the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park
Today we tell the story of the Wonderland Hotel and the area around it, Elkmont, both part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. You can subscribe to the Stories
Mason Evans was a schoolteacher and principal in McMinn County, in southeast Tennessee. After his one true love left him he made a fateful and life-changing decision to head to