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Great Smoky Mountains

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  • s* "Anyone who is acquainted with the unequal distribution of parks and playgrounds among the different sections of our country will advocate warmly the creation of another park and playground in the eastern part of the country." —Charles W. Eliot. through which enormous tulips thrust massive columns. A gleaming ash trunk, ruler straight, leans across the water. Prim, erect cucumber; thick, curly cherry; feathery peawood; majestic, plumed hemlock, still untouched with blight; crooked, coppery birch, and a wealth of lesser forest folk pause at its banks, which are concealed beneath heavy masses of rhododendron, trailing the current with stiff, shining fingers. Imagine boulders, moss-blanketed to the water. Imagine a bird dipping swiftly to the surface. Imagine a leaping trout." In these same little rivers, meanwhile, lies incalculable wealth for Tennessee and North Carolina. They must be preserved.
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  • "Great Smoky Mountains" is a 32-page brochure produced by the North Carolina Park Commission and collected by park promoter, Horace Kephart. The booklet is illustrated with many photographs by Thompson Brothers Photography and by George Masa (under the name of Plateau Studios and Asheville-Biltmore Film Co.), with descriptive captions by individuals associated with the park movement. The main essay, “Our National Park,” makes a case for a park in the Smokies due to the diversity of the region’s natural resources. While the writer mentions that the “picturesque” inhabitants and their “ancient log cabins” will be an “asset” to the park, in reality, inhabitants were moved out of the area and their dwellings destroyed.