New Book! THE SMOKIES YUKKY BOOK

Kids will go wild over the weird, creepy, yukky stuff in this book. 

Where else can your kids learn about carnivorous plants, vomiting 

vultures, snot otters, ant lions, and other magnificent things that 

really, really live in the Great Smoky Mountains? Written by Doris 

Gove, illustrated by Lisa Horstman. Recommended for kids ages 8-12. 

64 pages. Click here for details.

New Book! THE CIVIL WAR IN THE SMOKIES

The area that is now part of Great Smoky Mountains National Park has 

a surprising and often untold Civil War history. As the author Noel 

Fisher puts it "This was a war where men rode to the house of a 

neighbor they had known for many years, called him to the door and 

shot him dead; where still others served in poorly supplied, poorly 

equipped, nearly forgotten units to protect border and home . . . ." 

The pro-Union leanings of the Southern mountaineers grew even 

stronger as the war drug on. Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith 

noted that "No one can conceive the actual condition of east 

Tennessee, disloyal to the core, it is more dangerous and difficult 

to operate in than the country of an acknowledged enemy." 190 pages 

with historic photos and maps. Click here for details.