The Great Smoky Mountains National Park at 75 years; first in a series from the News-Sentinel
The News-Sentinel might be the strongest daily newspaper between Raleigh and Nashville, and its online package is well-developed and easy to use.
A quote from the opening segment:
This is your park.
This is our park.
The people, from schoolchildren collecting pennies to a foundation donating $5 million of Rockefeller money, bought this land.
Others – Cherokee and white settlers alike – paid for it with blood and sweat. More than 9 million people a year visit the park and pay no admission for the privilege.
Next year, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park turns 75 years old. The much older mountains within its boundaries have gone from being logged-out yet inhabited to a mature, re-grown forest protected from development but surrounded by vacation cabins, water slides, restaurants, hotels and golf courses, both full-sized and miniature.
Tags: Cherokee, GSMNP, Knoxville, mountains, Raleigh, smokies
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