Park celebrates 2019 Employee of the Year

  Great Smoky Mountains National Park announced recently that Steve Spanyer was chosen as the 2019 Employee of the Year. Recognition of the Employee of the Year has been a tradition in the Smokies since 1984. Although the format of this recognition has changed...

COMMENTARY: What a difference 50 or 60 years can make…

  Observations and random thoughts   By WILLIAM LEDFORD   Skin color matters! It took the threat of the loss of corporate sponsorship to change a name that would not be changed. No, it ain’t Voldemort. In other words greenskins (not the Hulk) trumped...