by Don McGowan | Sep 21, 2019 | September 2019
The Noah Waldroup farm is nestled a scant half-mile below where the Appalachian Trail passes through Taylor Hollow Gap on its way to Hot Springs (Madison County), North Carolina. The 4686′ majesty of Bluff Mountain rises to the west. Noah’s descendant,...
by Don McGowan | Sep 14, 2019 | September 2019
The remains of the Ramsey-Chandler Barn in the Madison County township of Revere, known far and wide as Sodom Laurel, once belonged a Roman Catholic Mission that served the isolated mountain community for many years. Today it belongs to Terry Vanderman, who retired to...
by Don McGowan | Sep 8, 2019 | September 2019
For most visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park the first overlook consciously encountered on the Tennessee side of Newfound Gap is Morton Overlook, the Smokies quintessential sunset location. However there is actually another viewpoint between Morton and...
by Don McGowan | Aug 30, 2019 | September 2019
Over the past seven years Bonnie and I have had the great privilege of visiting well over a hundred of the beautiful Appalachian barns of Madison County, North Carolina. Most of them, we have come to know intimately for their charm, beauty, and history, on the...
by Don McGowan | Aug 24, 2019 | August 2019
Middle Prong of Little River in the Tremont section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most beautiful streams on the planet. It is a boulder-strewn paradise of water, rock, and life that in late-August begins its preparations for the coming of...
by Don McGowan | Aug 17, 2019 | August 2019
Some years ago I shared an Image from Price Lake, one of my favorite locations in the Upper Peninsula. It was a single frame. Today I’d like to share a five-image panorama I also took on that occasion. The individual images were composed vertically using my...
