MONTICELLO, Ark. — All apologies for the lack of posts in September. But as promised, a cross-post from my personal blog when it relates to the South. For those wondering, this week’s celebrating the U.S. National Parks and Ken Burns’ documentary showing on PBS. After staying West for most of the week, it’s time to…
National Park Celebrates 75th Anniversary Glynn Wilson A rock tunnel beckons as you enter the Great Smoky Mountains National Park… by Glynn Wilson GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS — When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood at Newfound Gap with one foot in North Carolina and the other in Tennessee on Sept. 2, 1940 at the official opening…
Photo by Glynn Wilson Peak autumn color photos from the Catawba River in Marion, North Carolina. by Glynn Wilson MARION, N.C., Oct. 22 – It was about 3 p.m. Eastern Time when I finally got the boat in the water after a buffet lunch downtown in what used to be an old hotel back in…
Photo by Glynn Wilson A couple of migrating monarch butterflies (danaus plexippus) feeding on the wide variety of plants in the Ft. Walton Beach Ramada Inn gardens. Read our previous story about the migration in The Southerner magazine.