Porch Sitting, Smoky Mountains Style

by Marcy Wielfaert

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Porch Sitting, Smoky Mountains Style

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Marcy Wielfaert

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Photograph - Photography

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Once a resort vacation community for the wealthy who traveled by train from the city of Knoxville to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Elkmont is now a ghost town that is in the process of being historically restored. It is comprised of several cabins and cottages as well as a very large lodge. The Appalachian Lodge was used as a community gathering place that held dances, parties, and concerts during the Elkmont heyday when the cabins were full of vacationers. A long front porch stretches along the front of the lodge and still has rockers sitting there for people to enjoy a hiking break or a place to sit and look out over the heavily wooded area. Welcoming and homey, the rocking chairs not only represent a time long ago when life was very different in these mountains, but also beckon current visitors of the national park to sit a moment and take time to get to know one another.

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April 13th, 2019

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