Southern Appalachian Digital Collections

Western Carolina University (20) View all

Horace Kephart and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

items 13 of 18 items
  • wcu_great_smoky_mtns-11224.jp2
Item
?

Item’s are ‘child’ level descriptions to ‘parent’ objects, (e.g. one page of a whole book).

  • n park enthusiasts with a unique and challenging task, since the national parks in the West had been formed out of lands already government-owned. Fund- raising activities ranged from personal solicitation of the very wealthy to contests for the pennies, nicteiUs, and dimes of school children. Teachers meeting in 3ryson City in January 1925 heard a report from Horace Kephart that every school child in thirty-seven of the county's forty-seven school districts had contributed to the park campaign - 3,128 children in Swain County alone.28 Not all campaigns proved to be so successfuls After a meeting with "Charles Schwab in Asheville, Kephart received a prompt letter thanking him "for the book which you have so generously inscribed for me and which I shall read with great interest." While Kephart's presentation stirred the great financier's appreciation, there is, unfortunately, no record that it opened his pocketbook. In the same letter in which he suggested reprinting the Asheville Times article, Gregg addressed himself to the problem of dissension among North Carolinians, especially as it pertained to the timber interests. The Temple Act had empowered the Southern Appalachian National Park Commission, as the origin; survey committee was now known, to make recommendations concerning park boundaries. From the wording of his letter it was clear that the Commission was strongly considering the use of this power to bring the dissidents into line: " the facts are - at present - our Commission does not see how the park can include the Champion and Parsons areas against their will and against an in-different North Carolina. We do see how a park can'be laid out two thirds in Tennessee and one third in North Carolina leaving out these two properties" .?9 Under threat of losing part of the park area to Tennessee, advocates of the their fiqht. At a meetinc at Asnevilie's Battery Park Hotel the North Care*in;
Object
?

Object’s are ‘parent’ level descriptions to ‘children’ items, (e.g. a book with pages).