Monthly Archive: August 2014
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August 26, 2014
A Boy Scout will get the Boy Scout Honor Medal for saving a child in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Emery Benson, a 12 year old Boy Scout saved a child’s life last year when a 7 year old fell into Mouse Creek Falls and was quickly carried down stream by the fast moving water. Emery Benson was the only person close enough to the 7 year old to help. Benson jumped in, grabbed the younger child and swam to a rock where they climbed out. This past summer, Emery completed his life-saving merit badge and is officially trained…
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Mouse Creek Falls
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August 25, 2014
Hendersonville Apple Festival is having their 68th North Carolina Apple Festival 2014 soon! Fall in North Carolina means apple harvest in the mountains! Labor Day weekend is the Hendersonville Apple Festival. August 29-Sept. 1, 2014. Parade, children’s activites with rides and inflatables, and a street fair with over 200 vendors. And of course apples! Purchase apples from several local growers. The North Carolina Apple Festival gets bigger and better every year with over 250,000 people each year over the 4 day event. Gets your apples for those favorite recipes like apple pie, applesauce, apples fritters and more! For more information go…
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Hendersonvill Apple Festival, NC apple festivals, NC apples
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August 21, 2014
The two day Nawger Nob Arts & Crafts Fair is Saturday and Sunday September 27 and 28, 2014 in Townsend, TN this year. The craft fair takes place at Nawger Knob Shopping Area with the tents under the shade of the trees. Many craft tents and booths with so many different crafts you are sure to find something you like. This craft fair is very popular. Food and drinks also available. So many different types of crafts on sale like candles, clothes, , quilts, dolls, woodcrafts, unique gifts and more.
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Nawger Nob Craft Fair, TN, townsend
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August 21, 2014
The fall foliage 2014 forecast for the mountains of North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains is out. Biologist Kathy Mathews of Western North Carolina reports a wet spring and summer in the mountains this year may mean duller colors this fall for the annual fall foliage show. But tulip poplar trees like it wetter than average so their colors of yellow and golden may last longer this year. The pretty red colors this year may be less than normal due to the wet spring and summer. But if September is dry the red colors of the sourwood, red maple and…
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fall foliage 2014, fall foliage 2014 forecast, great smoky mountains, nc mountains
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August 20, 2014
Townsend, TN is known as The Peaceful Side of the Smokies and is the gateway to Cades Cove. Every fall in September Townsend put on the Townsend Fall Heritage Festival and Old Timers Day . This year the two day festival takes place on Friday Sept. 26 and Saturday Sept. 27, 2014. The festival has a bluegrass stage with bluegrass bands all day and into the night. Bluegrass picking takes place on the porch of the Townsend Visitors Center and under the trees close by. A stage is set up so the crowd can dance – clogging, line dance, and square…
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townsend, Townsend Fall Heritage Festival
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August 20, 2014
Dollywood Splash Country is only open on the weekends for the remainder of the summer. It will be open August 23 and 24 and August 30, 31 and Sept. 1, 2014. Hours for each day are 10:00 to 6:00. Head to Dollywood Splash Country for a final trip to enjoy the water park. Make the most of these last days of summer!
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Dollywood Splash Country
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August 17, 2014
National Southern Gospel and Harvest Celebration The end of summer is fast approaching. Thoughts of cooler days and crisp cool nights are right around the corner. Dollywood’s annual National Southern Gospel and Harvest Celebration will be starting soon. This year’s dates for the festival are September 22 – November 1, 2014. Six weeks of free southern gospel music concerts included in the regular price of a Dollywood admission ticket. Southern gospel music at its best along with all the other exciting shows, rides and food at Dollywood. And the annual fall foliage show in the Great Smoky Mountains will be here…
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dollywood, great smoky mountains, National Southern Gospel and Harvest Celebration
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August 13, 2014
This year has seen an increase in black bear activity and black bear sightings in the Great Smoky Mountains. It is very exciting to see a black bear while riding through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Many people pull their cars over or just stop causing a road hazard. Please remember to take precautions if you are in the Great Smoky Mountains and see a bear: stay back, do not run after or engage with the bear, do not feed, and do not interfere with the bears’s progress. Just observe from a distance. Use your zoom setting on the…
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bear safety, black bear sightings, black bears, great smoky mountains national park
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August 12, 2014
Chimney Tops Trail is one of the most popular trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it is also one of the steepest and rockiest trails in the park. Crews have been working on the trail since 2012. Now crews that started working at the trailhead in 2012 have made it almost to the top. The trail work and improvements should be completed by the middle of October. The trail was badly eroded in areas and when it rained the trail had water drainage problems that posed problems for hikers. The Chimney Tops Trail improvement project is the second Trails Forever…
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Chimney Tops Trail, great smoky mountains national park, hiking, Trails Forever Project
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August 8, 2014
Happy Birthday Saturday August 9th to Smokey the Bear! Smokey Bear turns 70. Smokey Bear has been used to help prevent forest fires since 1944. His slogan “Remember, only you can prevent wildfires” is known to millions of children, campers and people. Did you know that most wildfires are started by people? Wish Happy Birthday to Smokey Bear!!!!
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Smokey Bear
