Betty Craig Dupree – obituary

Former Qualla Arts & Crafts manager passes away Betty Craig DuPree, 83, a resident of Cherokee, died on Thursday night, Oct. 18 at the Cherokee Indian Hospital of a brief illness.  An EBCI tribal member,  she was the daughter of the late Don and Bertha Craig. She...

Park visits up in September

Great Smoky Mountains National Park recorded 963,317 visitors during September which is a 9.2 percent increase in visitation as compared with September 2011. Visitation numbers during September 2012 at all the Park’s three major entrances showed increased over...