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Trip into the Smokies with Horace Kephart

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  • - 4 - I shall never forget the first time I met Horace Kephart. Fie came strolling up to our camp fire one evening, (two days after we set up our camp at the Bryson Place) he and a friend of his from Massachusetts, J. B. Anderson. Both men had a red flower, 1 think and Idian, Pink, in their shirt button holes, and Mr. Anderson had his Ukulele under his arm. We had just finished our good tasty supper of speckled trout, bacon, cornbread, Edam cheese, and biscuits and jam for dessert and plenty of good coffee, so they helped us to clean up and wash dishes - put more wood on the fire, Then we all sat around that pretty camp fire and had a delightful evening -- talking. What Mr. Kephart always called a good "Gas fest". We had some music too. Mr. Anderson played his ukulele well and could sing. From that night on Mr. Kephart and Mr. Anderson were our fast friends. They were at our camp every evening. Would eat supper with us and then sitting around the camp fire until about eleven o'clock. Mr. Kephart would tell us of his experiences while living alone in his little cabin way up in the Smokies, on Sugar Fork, in the Hazel Creek country. I think that was where he wrote his book, "Our Southern Highlanders". He told us about the beauties of the Great Smokies, about the people living out in the mountains and their lives and hardships --about bear hunts and camping out on the mountains. We never tired of listening to him. He was fine company and a very friendly and likable man. He appreciated the mountaineers and like them and they liked him. If the mountaineers like you, they will do anything for you. They make good friends -- if they don't like you, it's just too bad. They have a lot of pride, are very independent
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