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Around Town Page 6 A r st T ed Wolff H as S olely H andcra ed E ach K nife and S heath MANY STYLES AND TYPES HANDMADE IN TENNESSEE Native American Legacies • Books • Jewelry • Moccasins • Beaded Jewelry • Flutes • Drums • Artwork • Silver Jewelry • Rugs • And Much More Fall into Volunteerism with Smokies Service Days! Open Monday - Saturday www.blackwolff.com 170 Glades Rd., Suite 2, Gatlinburg Value. Everyday. Open till 1:00 am 1219 E. Parkway, Gatlinburg Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announce upcoming Fall "Smokies Service Days” volunteer projects. These unique opportunities allow community members and park visitors to get involved and become stewards of Great Smoky Mountains National Park! Individuals and groups are invited to sign up for any of the scheduled service projects that interest them including unique opportunities to help care for park campgrounds, historic buildings, and other natural and cultural resources within the park boundaries. This volunteer program helps complete much needed work across the park and is ideal for those seeking to fulfill community service requirements, including high school and college students, scout troops, civic organizations, visitors, families, and working adults with busy schedules. Each project will provide tasks appropriate for a wide range of ages. Volunteer projects will begin at 9:00 a.m. and last until noon on Saturday mornings, except for the November 23 service date. In addition, each project will be followed by an optional enrichment adventure to immerse participants in the abundant natural and cultural resources of the park. Tools and safety gear, including gloves and high visibility safety vests, will be provided by park staff. Participants are required to wear closed-toe shoes and other Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as directed. Volunteers planning to stay for the optional enrichment activity must also bring a sack lunch. Those interested in volunteering need to contact Project Coordinator, Logan Boldon, at 865-436-1278 or logan_boldon@partner.nps.gov prior to the scheduled event date to register. Space may be limited. Historic Building Preservation Current service opportunities include: October 6: Historic Preservation & Campground Maintenance at Cataloochee October 27: Picnic Area & Campground Clean-Up at Deep Creek November 3: Campground Clean-Up at Cosby November 10: Litter Patrol at the Gatlinburg Park Boundary November 17: Campground Clean-Up at Elkmont November 23: Vegetation Management at Wears Valley American Sideshow Antiques - 373 Parkway, Gatlinburg - 865-325-1411 www.ShaconageStoneArtandJewelry.net Science at Sugarlands October 19 - 1:00 - 3:00 pm at Sugarlands Visitor Center Come out to Sugarlands Visitor Center to learn more about Beetles of the Smokies with Claire Winfrey from The University of Tennessee. Science at Sugarlands is a reoccurring event that falls on the third Friday of each month starting in May and going through October, from 1-3 PM. Each month DLIA brings a regional scientist or researcher in to give a talk about their research and increase awareness of the biodiversity around us. This event is free to the public and family friendly. Please come out and join us to learn more about life that surrounds us all! www.DLIA.org Steaks Howard's Steakhouse has been in Gatlinburg since 1946 offering the traditional Howard’s menu. Seating is also available outside next to a running stream. The bar is a long time locals favorite with a hometown atmosphere. Catering Available The Wild Boar Saloon located upstairs offers a lighter fare with tavern style appetizers and specialty bar drinks. Offering a great night life atmosphere and with Karaoke. www.HowardsRestaurantGatlinburg.com Where The Locals Go Burgers and much more Seafood (865) 436-3600 976 Parkway, Downtown Gatlinburg Smoky Mountain Trout Tournament Annual Smoky Mountain Trout Tournament is open to adults or children and equally challenging for both visitors and locals, with multiple categories to be contested in this trout tournament in the Smokies. Annual Smoky Mountain Trout Tournament is open to adults or children – and equally challenging for both visitors and locals, with multiple categories to be contested in this largest trout tournament in the Smokies. All Gatlinburg Campground Clean-up October 6 - October 7 - located in Gatlinburg and state fishing regulations will be observed. For information, call 865-661-3474 or email rockytopoutfit@aol.com. Looking for a special event or festival? Gatlinburg is the place to be. Whether you’re looking for arts and crafts shows, special concerts, food festivals, or holiday parades, Gatlinburg hosts a wide range of events in every season. Come join us for exciting celebrations throughout the year! Park Continues Search for Missing Hiker Over 40 Agencies and Volunteer Search and Rescue Groups Participating Great Smoky Mountains National park rangers are searching for a 53-year-old woman from Cleves, Ohio who was last seen in the Clingmans Dome area of the park on Tuesday, September 25. Mitzie Sue “Susan” Clements was hiking with her daughter on the Forney Ridge Trail, near Andrews Bald when the two separated. She was last seen around 5:00 pm approximately ¼ mile from Andrews Bald. Around 125 trained searchers and logistical support personnel from more than 40 state and local agencies and search and rescue organizations are participating in the search operation led by the National Park Service. Searchers have hiked over 500 miles on trails looking for Clements. In addition, experienced search personnel, canine teams and drones with specialized search and rescue equipment have been used to conduct more intensive off-trail “grid-searches” approximately 10 square miles. A number of new organizations have joined the search in the last two days, including Christian Aid Ministries Search and Rescue, Gatlinburg Fire Department, Haywood County Search and Rescue, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, Tennessee Highway Patrol Rapid Response Team, Tennesse Search and Rescue Team, Tennessee State Parks, United States Forest Service Cherokee Hotshots, as well as other National Park Service personnel from Blue Ridge Parkway, Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park, and Shenandoah National Park. The seven-mile Clingmans Dome Road remains closed to accommodate the infrastructure needed to manage this large-scale search. There are no trail closures in effect at this time. Susan Clements was last seen on Forney Ridge Trail approximately ¼ mile from Andrews Bald on Tuesday, September 25 at 5 pm where she was hiking with her daughter before the two separated with a plan to meet back at the Clingmans Dome parking lot. She is a white female with light brown hair and blue eyes, is 5’6” tall, and weighs 125 pounds. She is wearing a green zip-up sweater, black workout pants over black leggings, a clear rain poncho, and gray Nike running shoes with light green soles. Anyone who saw Clements on Tuesday afternoon or since then is asked to contact the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch through one of the following methods: 1-888-653-0009, www.nps.gov/isb and click “submit a tip,” email nps_isb@nps.gov, or via a m e s s a g e o n F a c e b o o k a t “InvestigativeServicesNPS,” or Twitter @SpecialAgentNPS. UPDATE: Search crews located the body of Susan Clements in Great Smoky Mountains National Park late this afternoon. Her body was found approximately two miles west of the Clingmans Dome parking area, and 3/4 mile south of the Appalachian Trail. Our hearts are with the family and friends of Ms. Clements. The park would like to extend our appreciation to the many agencies and organizations that participated in the search effort. Further details will be provided when they become available.
Valley Pools & Spas Sales • Supplies • Service • Repair Page 7 Around Town Mine For Your Fortune! You’re never too old to play in the dirt and find some treasures Fun For The Whole Family ! 849 Glades Road, # 1B1, Gatlinburg www.splitraileats.com Hot Tubs Swimming Pools Game Tables (865) 908-0025 3059 Birds Creek Rd, Sevierville 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) How The Tourists Found Cosby Hello Friend (Osiyo Oginali) Cocke County had been blessed with many “characters in her history. Now a few of these independent minded people have been women. We sometimes forget that women accompanied their men into the frontier wilderness that was once Cocke County. They anchored the home, bore the children, raised the garden, milked the cow and sometimes fought off marauding Indians and criminal white men who were sometimes worse than the Indians. They raised cane with their men folks until schools and churches were built to fill the educational and spiritual needs of their children. Theses strong pioneer women left a legacy that is found in many Cocke County women even today. Here is a tall tale about one of them. She lived “well-up on Cosby” in a little one-chimney log cabin with a yard sloping down to the dirt road. A little branch gurgled by the edge of the yard into which a twelve feet strip of poplar bark, dry curled until it formed a pipe of sorts was inserted to carry a finger size stream of water splashing into a wooden tub. A “two holler” outhouse set on a two locust poles across the branch fifty feet or so below the drinking water tub. Peas, cabbage, onions, lettuce and Irish potatoes were showing green in the rock fence enclosed weed free garden in back of the outhouse. Hens crackled, roosters crowed, guineas chattered, dogs barked and children shouted as they all roamed at will through the yard and the surrounding woods and fields. The old mountain woman had a husband, of sorts, who considered all work woman's work and spent his time roaming the mountains, returning home at least once a year. On this spring morning ewes with trailing lambs could be seen nibbling the new green buds and sprouts on the hill above the house. Fluffy lambs frolicked in the yard with the children, chickens, guineas and dogs. The old lady was dying wool thread she had carded from wool sheared from her sheep. Appalachian Bear Rescue By Kathryn Sherrard She had dug blood root from the beds growing wild in the woods surrounding the little homestead. She had boiled the blood root in the big wash pot and now had ten to twelve gallons of blood red dye into which she was dipping loose rolled coils of the wool thread. She swished the coils around in the tub with a stick until they were dyed to her liking and then she hung them on the clothesline to dry. While her back was turned a wee lamb danced up and jumped into the pot of red dye. The old lady fished out, shook him off and set him down. She groaned, here was a two dollar lamb lost, of course he would die. The children laughed with glee as they began to chase the red lamb with the black nose. A “New York Tourist” drove by in his long black car and spied the children chasing the red lamb. Strange thing, thinks he, they grow red lambs on Cosby. I must check into this strange thing. He stopped the long black car and addressed the old lady, “Madam, how much for the red lamb?” The old soul was shocked to think anyone would want to buy a lamb that was going to die in a few minutes, stuttered and finally said, “Why, Lordy, Lordy, hit ain't worth but twotwo….” “Twenty dollars, fine, fine, I will take it”, smiled the tourist, as he reached the old lady a twenty dollar bill. The old Mountain woman had never seen twenty dollars before at one time in her entire life stood dumfounded as the children helped the New York Tourist stuff the red lamb into his long black car and sped away. As the dust settled behind the fleeing car this old mountain woman realized the potential of what had just happened to her. Immediately she ordered the children to bring forth all the lambs and she soused them all into the red dye. Every time a new lamb was born he went splashing through the dye. Nine ABR Bears Performing 6:00 till 9:00 1654 E. Parkway Soon the old soul had more money than she ever imagined existed. Her husband came home and demand his fair share and she lay the twelve-gauge scattergun in his face and he became content to set on the porch with his pipe, dogs and chickens. In short the lamb dying business was so good that over the years the old mountain woman was able to send four children through college and one through the penitentiary, cost are the same. The old mountain woman became the “BEST LAMB DYER ON COSBY”. Repeat that a few times very fast. This is a tall tale of how Cosby found that catering to the whims of tourists is a lot safer than making moonshine and much less work than growing an acre of corn and A HEAP EASIER TO PICK. “As told to me by my uncle”. “Do na da go hv i” (Till we see each other again) Sunday - Monday - Tuesday Nite Music at the Creek A Smoky Jazz Feel With A Bluesy Rock Sound Featuring: Ben E. Scott Stroupe ( Next To Dollar General ) Free Parking Designs by Matoka Shaconage Stone Art and Jewelry 170 Glades Road, #15, Gatlinburg - 865-719-3999 www.ShaconageStoneArtandJewelry.net Last month we wrote that Appalachian Bear Rescue was caring for nine bears – seven cubs and two yearlings. Since then we have released one of the yearlings, Bumble B. Bear, and admitted another cub, Dash Bear, who was injured by a car. So our total is still nine bears – now it is eight cubs and one yearling. The “Six-pack” of cubs in Wild Enclosure #4 is a rowdy bunch. They are foraging busily and they wrestle and play between foraging sessions. They also spend a fair amount of time napping. They have grown and put on weight, and they look very healthy with shiny fur coats thanks to the good nutrition they receive. Piccola, the little KY cub who was admitted in August and was considered to be in a precarious state with a perforated intestine, has responded to treatment and is now in Wild Enclosure #3. She is still too small to be introduced to the rambunctious group next door. The newest resident, Dash Bear, had surgery to repair a broken mandible and is still recovering in our Recovery Center. We expect that very soon she will move into an Acclimation Pen and then she will likely join Piccola in her Wild Enclosure. We see the unmistakable signs of hyperphagia, the annual feeding frenzy that causes bears to eat increased amounts of food in late summer and fall, to prepare for winter and hibernation. Even in cubs that have not been taught by a mother or older bear, the need to eat is overwhelming. Our curators are kept busy providing food to fill the tummies of all the bears. Bears in the wild are responding to the same urges. They are eating nonstop (as many as 20-22 hours a day) and are consuming upwards of 20,000 calories each day! Fortunately, the acorns have started to ripen. Acorns are the most important fall food for bears, as they provide the fat and protein needed for the long winter's sleep. If you are in the park or along a roadway where there are oak trees, watch for bears eating acorns. Please do watch for them, as the fact is they are so focused on eating that they are less inclined to be on the lookout for cars. We know you wouldn't want to cause the death of one of these icons of the Smokies. In more northern regions bears may already be actively searching for and preparing dens for their winter sleep. In fact, some northern bears may have retired to dens by late October. In our area, because winters are milder and snow will not be so deep, our bears lag behind their northern cousins in choosing and preparing their dens. In fact, our Southern Appalachian bears will not be ready to enter a den for another month or two. Even the sows who will be giving birth to cubs in January probably won't enter their dens until December. In the fall it is vitally important to keep human food and garbage away from any place where it might attract bears. Remember, this includes pet food and bird seed as well as what we ourselves regard as food. Although it has been proven that bears will choose their natural diet in preference to garbage, they are opportunistic and will be tempted by an easy meal that provides a lot of calories all at once. They are trying to consume so many calories each day, if they can grab a feeder full of sunflower seed they have a 1500 calorie snack! Think how many calories are in Twinkies or doughnuts, to say nothing of other human goodies. And these sugary treats are even more harmful to bears than they are to us. As you travel around the mountains this month enjoy the colorful leaves and the sight of foraging bears but please respect them by giving them space and by being extra careful not to provide any food that might interfere with their normal diet. We are sure that you wouldn't deliberately offer food to a bear, but be very sure that you don't feed them inadvertently by being careless with picnic or barbecue leftovers. Remember the advice that you “Leave no Trace” of your visit to the Smokies. You can follow the progress of all of these bears and any more cubs or yearlings we may admit by visiting our Facebook page: facebook.com/AppalachianBearRescue. Photos are posted every day. You can also visit our website at www.appalachianbearrescue.org and our blog at abrblog.wordpress.com. If you are in Townsend, please stop by our Visitor/Education Center in the Trillium Cove Shopping Village on East Lamar Alexander Parkway. It is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 to 4; closed Sunday and Monday. You can view videos and photos of the bears, adopt one if you care to, and browse through souvenir items. We'd love to see you there!
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