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Speech in support of an Appalachian National Park

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  • /3 I aoross th e Swannanoqyalley from the Black,with only a narrow strip of cultivated land between, Lewis Patton is a practical man, a direct man, "no hollow formulist dxjBBJBsJbetf. deceptive and self-deceptive",an untutored child of the mountains, we all stood there upon the dome of Craggy,more than six thousand feet high, in the midst of that amphitheatre of the wolrd,peak towering above peak,range rising behind range,higher and higher and higher;a petrified ocean,upheaved and riven by earth quake$ and Titanio storms,until the Almighty World Builder spoke with the voice of the thunders,"Peace be still". As in contemplation of eternity, the mind is bewildered and overwhelmed by the vast sweep of the horizon,the stupendous magnitude and grandeur of t.ese monuments of infinite power,thse everlasting pill^wW of the earth. The smoke curling from the chimneys of the cottages in the valleys far below tell- that the housewife is getting ready the evening meal* The sun sending forth great arms of light,the aurora of the morning beneath our f<et,escoited by clouds of opal and garnet and sapphire sweeps in a blaze of triumphant splendor throughtho portals of the west. One by one the starR come out Jfih"'galaxies, "street lamps of the City of God". The preacher in the tone of one who would teach a moral lesson said,"What was this great world made for any way". Lewis Patton looked around and replied, "Well, Mister,! don't know and cant answer your question;but 'pears to me like this part around here was made mostly for varmints* This innooent sarcasm silence* any further Comments from the moral teacher and brought to mind those lines of In Memoriam: "Our little systems have their day, They have tfrawt day and cease to be;
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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