Thursday, January 30, 2020

a Smoky Mountain Winter Experience







A special thank you to the City of Pigeon Forge and their Office of Special Events' Butch Helton and Brandon Barnes and the rest of the staff, for their Smoky Mountain Winter Experience

The event was held over the past three days at The Ramsey Hotel and Convention Center and was very similar to the original January based Wilderness Wildlife Week. It was a gathering of nature and outdoor enthusiasts, plus artists, storytellers, natural historians and musicians like Ruth Barber and Keith Watson of Boogertown Gap Old-Time String Band (click: Boogertown) and hammer dulcimer artist Tim Simek (click: Simek).

I was there selling books and artwork beside my cousin local artist Louise Bales, part owner of the Cliff Dwellers (click Cliff) on Glades Road in Gatlinburg.

And a special thank you to those who attended one of my four talks about birds. 

It was especially good to revisit the topic of John James Audubon and his publishing tour de force: The Birds of America that included portraits of the 435 known species at the time including the now extinct Carolina parakeet (to the left). 

It was a masterwork of achievement!


Lynne McCoy
Tim Simek
Bee house maker Stephen 

Landscape by artist (and cousin) Louise Bales

Boogertown Gap


Woodcarver Don Taylor

Stephen Lyn with stoic partner: gray phase






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