Smoky Mountains Around Town / July 2018

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Page 4 Around Town By A. Jann Peitso “Doing the Loop, The Entire Loop” can be exhausting, especially on a warmer-than-we-like July day. Looking for the cooler places, the parking lots offering shade for the cars or the shops handing out ice cream, cold drinks and salads cool to the taste buds, visitors hover around those places like butterflies along the riverbanks. In Days Gone By, shops would advertise “Cool Inside” and the door never shut with the patrons going in to cool down. Most of the businesses In The Loop, that eight mile loop road full of handcrafting artisans and restaurants, now welcome visitors to their cool workshops and air-conditioned galleries. Mountain breezes seem to follow the curves and flow along Glades and Buckhorn Roads as the visitors meander along the same route. These breezes seem to pick up the cool streams of air and deposit them along the decks having colorful umbrellas and offer another chance for a cone of ice cream or even chilled fudge. In the evenings, the “foodies” find a different fare but still umbrellas on decks catching the breezes and tossing them back down The Loop, beckoning those travelers to linger a while longer over a glass of wine or a glass of sweet iced tea and a plate of fine tapas. The evening wears on and lights begin to twinkle along the ridges overlooking the creeks and roads of The Loop. Looking closer, it is The People of The Loop as they prepare the next day's art, whether it be the collectible that will leave as someone's prized purchase or the baked goods and food that hopefully, a visitor will purchase from the bakery in the early morning hours, the lunch around noon or the evening meal and after-dinner dessert. In The Loop, action hardly ever ceases except for the few hours sleep afforded these optimistic and hard-working souls. The new morning tugs them awake to welcome the visitor, the breezes of a hot July day and the promise of another busy day. A. Jann Peitso, art! www.ajannpeitsoart.com 170 Glades Road, Gatlinburg • 865-436-2363 Sparky’s Glassblowing Ask About Our Glassblowing Classes! Come and watch Gary at work! Gary Will Make You A Special Glass Piece For Your Loved Ones Ashes Glassblowing at its best! Beautiful, handcrafted blown & sculpted glass (865) 325-8186 www.sparkysglassblowing.com Smoky Mountains Art’s & Crafts Community 849 Glades Road (Covered Bridge Complex) We specialize in handmade soy candles, soaps, and fragrant air fresheners (865) 325-8142 Crafts & Gifts Hand-Crafted in the Smoky Mountains Located at the Covered Bridge in the Glades Gatlinburg's Great Smoky Arts & Crafts Community We Loan On Anything of Value! 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These events allow people to work together to find and identify as many types of plants, animals, microbes, fungi, and other organisms as they can. Discover Life in America (DLIA) partners with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to bring regional scientists, students, teachers, families, and other community members together, engaging people in a biological inventory of TVA's public lands. Why do we have Bioblitzes? Bioblitzes are designed to increase public awareness of the variety of life in our own neighborhood, as well as, the services these species provide within their ecosystems, which also benefit humans. We usually hear the word "biodiversity" regarding rainforests with their incredible number of species, yet the diversity of life in When:9 AM - 3 PM Saturday July 14- Worthington Cemetery, Oak Ridge, Tn Where:10 Thunder Road, Sheffield, Alabama Elza Gate Park, Oak Ridge, TN RSVP: dlia.org/event/bioblitz-2018/ This event is free, family friendly and no experience is necessary! Find Discover Life in America on Facebook for more info. DLIA's mission is to discover and understand America's species through science and education for conservation. DLIA's flagship project, the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, is a joint effort with the NPS to identify and record every single species within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. To date DLIA has assisted in adding 9,196 new species to the park's records and 986 new to science. Steaks • Escargot • Lobster • Shrimp • Tilapia • Prime Rib • Trout • Pork • Chicken Pasta • Appetizers • Soups • Salads • Desserts • Kids Menu • Full Cocktail Service KEN WAYNE Photography / Gallery & Studio / Workshop visit our website and read on line like us on Facebook PLEASE Don’t Feed The Bears Around Town A Fed Bear Is a Dead Bear www.smokymountainsaroundtown.com
Cold Here Misty Mountain Soap Co. A Healthier Choice In Skin Care Around Town Page 5 Mine For Your Fortune! You’re never too old to play in the dirt and find some treasures Fun For The Whole Family ! 600 Glades Rd #10 Gatlinburg Natural Soaps, Lotions & Bath Products Hand Crafted In Our Shops! www.mistymountainsoap.com 601 Glades Road (Morning Mist Village) 849 Glades Road (Covered Bridge Complex) Old Smoky Gem Mine 968 Parkway, #1, Downtown Gatlinburg (865) 436-7112 (Located between lights #8 & #9 across from Ober Gatlinburg - Parking located in Elks Plaza) Preserving the Last Flicker of Light of the Past– One of Many Short Stories - A very Bear-ry Silly Short Story How to choose the perfect eggplant Photo: Opanas/Shutterstock I didn't know this until recently, but eggplants are classified as berries. Technically, they're a fruit, even though they're almost always treated as a vegetable. That's just a fun fact to keep in mind as you search for the perfect eggplant this summer. by Paul Murray One morning I was looking out the kitchen window and saw all the bear-ries on the ground I said “What kind of varment would do such a thing” Kati Jane my wife knew what happened, so I guess she was the bear-er of the bear-y bad news. I couldn’t bear what she had to say. So, right out to the barn I went looking for some rope. I couldn’t find any, so I used some bear wire and with my bear hands I got the bear wire and tied up that weight bear-ing black Bear-ybush. Then all of a sudden, our little 3 year old comes a runnin’ out of the back door, bear-foot and bear bottomed. She’s so fast we could bear-ly catch her. Then this old truck pulled into our driveway with a bear cage on the back, and a man and lady got out of the vehicle and said, “would you happen to be Paul Murray the artist? I said “Yup” and they said “we would like you to paint us bear naked” I said, “That’s not gonna happen,” then I turned 3 shades of red. They just started to laugh at me and said, “You look like a shy little Teddy Bear, “I said “Now look here I’m gonna give you the bear facts. This is the south, and we down here don’t tolerate them kind of goins on.” They replied “We feel we have the right to bear all!” I said you see that shot gun over there on the porch? I feel I have the right to bear arms. So kindly get back in your truck and down the road you go!.” My wife by this point said she was getting a head ache and was commencing to go to the store to get some bear aspirin. I said “If you’re going to the store you’d better get some vittles – the kitchen shelves are bear and the ice box is bear-en of food. But be smart and just get the bear necessities. She said “Didn’t you want candy or pop?” I said, “Get me some gummy bears, and some rootbear.” She said “you mean ROOTBEER!” I said, “Ya that’s what I said”. “Anything else?”she said.“Ya, you better get me a can of paint. I have taken all of the pictures and curtains down and have primed most of the rooms.” She asked“you mean all of the walls are bear? What kind of paint should I get?” I said, “Get the usual Bear brand paint” Then she aid,“You are going to have to come with me!” I said, “I can’t the funeral parlor asked me if I would be one of the polar bear-er’s today.” My wife said, “You mean a pall-bear-er. I said, “Ya, that’s what I said.” Then all of a sudden our neighbors drove by, beeping the car horn, driving with a wee little baby next to them. I asked “You mean to tell me they had another baby and my wife said” not a chance, she’s already had 29 kids. I suspect her child bear-in days are over”. So as I was walking my wife to the car when I hear a big ol’…Hold on just a minute folks as I am writing this short story I am hearing some noise out the rear…I’ll be back soon…So excuse me a minute as I go look see. O MY! Well folks I will have tofinish this short story another time. You see it is early Tuesday morning as I am writing this story, and our neighborhood black bear and her bear cubs are back again rearranging the trash cans, just a bit before the garbage men are to arrive. Even though we try to keep our garbage bear proof, I just think they like to visit and reorganize the trash cans. So it looks like I’ve got real big ol’ mess to clean up out there before the truck come’s to take the garbage. I promise I will finish this very bear-ry short story sometime down the road. Please just bear in mind that them bears just make a trashy mess. So please just bear with me.-PAUL MURRAY p.s. some of you might think I may be losing my bear-ings. Well it ain’t no news to me, my wife thinks that’s ben goin’ on for years. - Preserving Mtn ways and legacy since 1970- Paul Murray Gallery 1003 Glades Rd. 2.5miles down w/large girl on barn - in the midst of the greatest, oldest, historical Arts & Crafts Society in America. Come stir your senses. www.paulmurray.com 865-436-8445 March thru mid Nov.10:30 to 6pm have a little give to it, but it shouldn't be mushy. If you squeeze and it's hard, it was picked before it was fully ripe. Although unripe eggplants can ripen a bit after being harvested, it's difficult to coax them from unripe to ripe, so you want what you purchase to be close to this point already. • Consider their weight. An eggplant should feel a bit heavy, but there's no specific weight an eggplant should be. If it seems lighter than you think it should, it may have lost some of its water weight and is no longer fresh. Once you find some, you can make this: Critical Health News By Pharmacist Ben Fuchs Everyone wants great skin. We are bombarded daily by advertisements and marketing proclamations that claim to deliver it. The skin care industry is a 10 billion dollar business made up mostly of products containing oils and waxes, solvents, emulsifiers and chemical ingredients that allow for the creation of cosmetic commodities that modify the superficial appearance of the skin, without actually creating real changes. Yet skin is naturally dynamic and normally regenerates itself on daily, weekly and monthly basis. It is the quintessential renewing organ and this assures a constant supply of youthful, healthy tissue. Within 4-8 weeks old skin cells have been completely replaced. This ultimately means that, with the right products and techniques, the characteristics of less than healthy skin can be transformed and your skin's naturally beautiful, radiant and healthy appearance can be restored. To best leverage your skin's inherent healing and renewing capacity, we need to understand how the skin is constructed. While to the naked eye it appears like a covering that protects the inside of the body, in reality it is a complex organ that is structured in multiple sheets that can be generally classified into two major strata. The upper is referred to as the epidermis, which makes up about 10% or so of the skin, and underneath that, the remaining 90% is called the dermis. The surface of the epidermis is made up of a protective coating called the stratum corneum. All organs of the body are composed of cells as well as the stuff that cells secrete. The skin is no different. The predominant cell type in the dermis is called the fibr-o-blast, which is responsible for producing tightening and elastic fibers, like collagen and elastin, as well as a water-trapping spongy material that Naturally Leverage Skins Healing Renewal Capacity gives the skin its dense and robust appearance. The cellular star of the epidermis is the keratin-o-cyte, which is the source of moisture factors, protective defensive chemicals, and a hard protein called keratin that acts as an impermeable barrier makeing up much of the ultra-thin stratum corneum protective surface. The suffix “-cyte” is derived from the Greek word for container. Scientists use this designation to refer to various types of cells. Thus a “keratin-ocyte” is quite literally a “keratin making cell”. Keratin is one of the natural world’s most ubiquitous proteins. In addition to being found in human hair, it comprises a large concentration of the structural components of feathers, hooves, horns and antlers. In humans, it makes up the surface of hair strands as well as finger and toenails. Via its deposition on the skin surface, it’s also responsible for much of the mechanical barrier effects of the body’s largest organ. Keratin-o-cytes, which are generally referred to as “skin cells”, are born in the bottom layer of the skin and they gradually rise to the top, becoming more and more filled with keratin. By the time a skin cell has made it from the bottom layer to the surface, it is no longer alive but is essentially a cell remnant or a shell almost completely packed with keratin to the point where it is actually a little more than a hardened little speck of protein. At this point, it is no longer called a keratin-o-cyte. It is now known as a corneo-cyte which means “hardened cell”. The coalescence of corne-ocytes on the cutaneous surface comprises the stratum corneum layer, the technical name for the very tippy top of the skin which is directly exposed to the environment. Stratum corneum is Latin for “hardened layer” and it gets its name from the corne-o-cytes (hard cell) that compose it. Continued to Page 8 I follow these tips for picking a ripe one from the grocery store or the farmers market: • Check the color. There are several different colors of eggplant; the most common is the very dark purple, but some are lighter purple, striped or even yellow or white. Whatever the color, make sure the eggplant is all that color — there is no green, indicating unripeness. The skin should be shiny, too. • Dull skin could mean the eggplant was picked a while ago and is no longer fresh. • Look for blemishes. Cuts and bruises mean that the eggplant may have started to rot inside. • Give it a little squeeze. The eggplant should Photo: koss13/Shutterstock My favorite way to cook eggplant is to lightly fry slices (sometimes I bread them, sometimes I don't), and then put some mozzarella cheese and some chopped up super ripe summer tomato on top of the slices and put them in the toaster oven until the cheese melts. I drizzle a little balsamic on top when they come out of the oven and voila a savory, summer appetizer or side dish. Proudly the largest liquor store and selection in Sevier County since 1983. Epi’s Fine Wines & Spirits of Gatlinburg, TN offers a huge selection of liquor, spirits, high-gravity beer and wines from local and around the world. We have convenient, unlimited and free parking. www.episliquor.com At traffic light #3 in Gatlinburg turn onto Rt. 321. Go 2.7 miles and we’re on the left. 1359 E. Parkway, Gatlinburg • 865-436-5287
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