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Trip into the Smokies with Horace Kephart

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  • - 6 - Deep Creek, and drove back down to Bryson City. Mr. Kephart and Mr. Anderson going along with us. They stopped at the old Cooper House in Bryson, and we stayed there too for ten days and did enjoy our stay. Jack Coburn and Mrs. Coburn were living in Bryson at that time and we had a most pleasant ten days there. Good eats at the Cooper rlouse - 1 well remember that delicious Sourwood honey, on the table for every meal. The honey out at Bryson City always seemed better than anywhere else. The Cooper House at that time was a well known and popular place, an old rambling house with nice porches. Many interesting people stopped there. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper were very friendly nice people and knew how to make people feel at home. And Bryson City was to me the most attractive little mountain town I had ever seen, different from all the rest. It had much charm. That beautiful river, the Tuckasegee, flowed right through the middle of the town and the bridge over the river was a great meeting place, a good spot to hear stories of bear hunts, coon hunts trout fishing, etc. Many interesting people lived in Bryson. The place fascinated rne. Jack Coburn and his wife were great friends of Mr. Kephart, and of mine and they did everything to make our stay in Bryson most enjoyable - in fact Jack Coburn and Mr. Kephart really introduced nay husband and me to the Great Smoky Mountains and they took us later on several trips that I shall never forget. Jack was the first one to point out to me what they call out there "the old Smoky Lead" - meaning that long even line of the Smoky divide, seen at several points above Cherokee, on the Ocona Lufty river; a thrilling sight to me. Bryson City always seems
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