Fall in the Smoky Mountains: Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
One of the most popular times to visit the Great Smoky Mountains is in the fall, especially October, the peak season for fall foliage, when the Great Smoky Mountains National Park comes alive with a brilliant blaze of red, orange and yellow leaves, as well as fresh, cool mountain air. Some of the best fall colors can be viewed along Newfound Gap Road, the scenic 32-mile stretch of U.S. 441 that winds the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, to Cherokee, North Carolina.
There are many festivals and special events that also take place throughout the Smoky Mountains during the autumn months. For example, the Smoky Mountain Harvest Festival (through the end of October) features live entertainment, old-fashioned hayrides, local crafts and more. Dollywood's Southern Gospel & Harvest Celebration (through October 29, 2011) offers the best in Southern gospel music, along with the talents of more than 100 craftspeople. Named as one of the Top 20 Events in the Southeastern United States by the Southeast Tourism Society, the 36th-annual Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair (October 6-23, 2011) boasts more than 200 talented artists and craftspeople in the areas of pottery, woodworking, broom making, stained glass, basket making and more.
In addition; fall is the perfect time to drive through the 8-5-mile loop that comprises the Great Smoky Arts & Crafts Community, which contains numerous studios, shops and galleries. Founded in 1937, the Great Smoky Arts & Crafts Community has evolved into the country's largest organization of independent artisans. Mountain crafts that can be purchased here include woodcarving, pottery, quilting, painting, weaving, candle making, broom making and more. The Great Smoky Arts & Crafts Community lies just 3 miles outside of downtown Gatlinburg on U.S. 321 North.
With great weather, brilliant fall foliage and an abundance of lively festivals the Great Smoky Mountains provide the perfect fall vacation destination. With Cabin Fever Vacations travels can choose from a multitude of luxury log cabins and lodges convenient to downtown Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, Wears Valley and the Great Smoky Mountains.
Visit cabinfevervacations.com to find your perfect Smoky Mountain vacation home.
Handmade in Knoxville, TN
Craft. People who care about what they do and the quality of the product they send out. What may be lacking in other parts of the country is alive and well in Knoxville, TN. We still do things by hand here. You can get everything from wine made from locally grown grapes to hand printed posters made from salvaged wood type. This is more than just people working this is people doing what they love.
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The Time I Almost Didn't MAKE IT! Great Smokey Mountains
This was a road trip we made a little while ago from Florida to Ohio and back. This video was not originally made for YouTube but rather a family movie. This area of th United States is ABSOLUTEYL beautiful.
We stopped at Clingmans Dome in Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
We arrived to Clingman's Dome and the port-a-potties were pretty stinky so we figured we'd wait and maybe there would be a restroom on the way up...there was NOT. Half way up there is a little shop to buy things but no restroom. Be sure to go potty BEFORE you go up. Take a bottle of water with you because there is nowhere to buy or get water and it is a VERY difficult and long hike up the mountain...unless you are a marathon runner. Most people going up were having a difficult time excpet for 3 older women who were total champions!
We started walking UP UP UP and didn't realize how far and steep this walk was. If I had known ahead of time I may have not tried it. I'm glad I didn't realize how difficult or long it was to make it to the top because it was well worth it once we made it.
Unfortunately, there are no wheelchairs or pets allowed. You couldn't make it up even if you tried with a wheelchair. It would be nice if they had someway of getting older and disabled people up to the top.
We saw signs that said this was part of the Appalachian trail. We saw people from around the world visiting as well as hikers from all over.
It was inspirational to see how people motivated others to keep going when you can see they just couldn't go any further...but then get up and kept going. Taking a hiking stick would have been helpful.
Im embarrased to say that 3 women much older than me were busting a move and was power walking their way up while I struggled to breath. That motivated me...if they can do it...then I have to keep going. :)
Clingmans Dome is 6643 feet high in elevation.
It was a difficult hike to the top for even those in fairly good shape. If you have a bad heart I don't recommend this hike. Pets are not allowed, so have plans to make sure your dogs are not in a hot car or overheating iif you go in the summer. This hike will take you a while to go up and come back down.
It is definitely worth the visit if you can make it. There is more information at this government site
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THE TEN VIRGINS - A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD PARABLE
According to biblical prophecy, the sudden and instantaneous mass disappearance of millions of people around the world will occur in an event known as the rapture. These people will have ascended into Heaven. Scripture is also clear that the only people who will be a part of this staggering event are those who are born again.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE BORN AGAIN?
THE MESSAGE OF THE RESURRECTION: MAKING HEAVEN AND AVOIDING HELL AFTER DEATH
A SAVING FAITH
For those left behind, a horrendous period of seven years of global judgment called the Tribulation will strike the earth. The book of Joel names it as the Day of the Lord. The Tribulation will be seven years of horror and upheaval unlike anything the world has ever experienced before.
In Jesus' parable of the ten virgins from the book of Matthew, it is revealed that five of those ten virgins are left outside of the wedding and had the door shut on them while the other five went in through the door to the wedding:
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh (Matthew 25:1-13).
Many Bible expositors teach that the five who were left out are carnal Christians who are left behind after the rapture. However, a closer examination of this scripture will reveal that it is not speaking of born again, saved Christians, but a different group of unsaved people altogether. The links below provide even more conclusive evidence that this is the case.
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Rocky Mount Museum
Rocky Mount Living History Museum
Rocky Mount, in Piney Flats, Tennessee, was once the capitol of Americas Southwest Territory, frequented by the likes of Governor William Blount, Daniel Boone, John Sevier and Richard Henderson (who negotiated the Transylvania Purchase). Though the establishment was built more than 200 years ago, day-to-day activities on the farm have not changed. Costumed interpreters still mimic the farming and social techniques of the year 1791. Considered by many to be as much a time machine as a historical landmark, Rocky Mount gives visitors a first-hand look at life on Americas First Frontier.
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Christmas lights (also known informally as fairy lights) are lights used for decoration in preparation for Christmas and for display throughout Christmastide. The custom goes back to the use of candles to decorate the Christmas tree in Christian homes in early modern Germany.[1][2] Christmas trees displayed publicly and illuminated with electric lights became popular in the early 20th century. By the mid-20th century, it became customary to display strings of electric lights as along streets and on buildings Christmas decorations detached from the Christmas tree itself. In the United States, it became popular to outline private homes with such Christmas lights in tract housing beginning in the 1960s. By the late 20th century, the custom had also been adopted in non-western countries, notably in Japan and Hong Kong.
In many countries, such as Sweden, people start to set up their Christmas lights, as well as other Christmas decorations, on the first day of Advent.[3][4] In the Western Christian world, the two traditional days when Christmas lights are removed are Twelfth Night and Candlemas, the latter of which ends the Christmas-Epiphany season in some denominations.[5] Leaving the decorations up beyond Candlemas is historically considered to be inauspicious.
The Christmas tree was adopted in upper-class homes in 18th-century Germany, where it was occasionally decorated with candles, which at the time was a comparatively expensive light source. Candles for the tree were glued with melted wax to a tree branch or attached by pins. Around 1890, candleholders were first used for Christmas candles. Between 1902 and 1914, small lanterns and glass balls to hold the candles started to be used. Early electric Christmas lights were introduced with electrification, beginning in the 1880s.
The illuminated Christmas tree became established in the United Kingdom during Queen Victoria's reign, and through emigration spread to North America and Australia. In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, After dinner.. we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room. There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments. All the presents being placed round the trees.[7] Until the availability of inexpensive electrical power in the early twentieth century, miniature candles were commonly (and in some cultures still are) used.
In the United Kingdom, electrically powered Christmas lights are generally known as fairy lights. In 1881, the Savoy Theatre, London was the first building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity.[8] Sir Joseph Swan, inventor of the incandescent light bulb, supplied about 1,200 Swan incandescent lamps, and a year later, the Savoy owner Richard D'Oyly Carte equipped the principal fairies with miniature lighting supplied by the Swan United Electric Lamp Company, for the opening night of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Iolanthe on 25 November 1882.[9] The term 'fairy lights', describing 'a small coloured light used in illuminations' had already entered English:[10] its usage for a string of electrically powered Christmas lights has been common in the UK ever since.[11]
The first known electrically illuminated Christmas tree was the creation of Edward H. Johnson, an associate of inventor Thomas Edison. While he was vice president of the Edison Electric Light Company, a predecessor of today's Con Edison electric utility, he had Christmas tree light bulbs especially made for him. He proudly displayed his Christmas tree, which was hand-wired with 80 red, white and blue electric incandescent light bulbs the size of walnuts, on December 22, 1882 at his home on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Local newspapers ignored the story, seeing it as a publicity stunt. However, it was published by a Detroit newspaper reporter, and Johnson has become widely regarded as the Father of Electric Christmas Tree Lights. By 1900, businesses started stringing up Christmas lights behind their windows.[12] Christmas lights were too expensive for the average person; as such, electric Christmas lights did not become the majority replacement for candles until 1930.[13]
In 1895, U.S. President Grover Cleveland proudly sponsored the first electrically lit Christmas tree in the White House. It was a huge specimen, featuring more than a hundred multicolored lights. The first commercially produced Christmas tree lamps were manufactured in strings of multiples of eight sockets by the General Electric Co. of Harrison, New Jersey. Each socket took a miniature two-candela carbon-filament lamp.
Christmas lights (holiday decoration) | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:30 1 History
00:08:31 2 Technology
00:10:58 3 Outdoor displays
00:11:07 3.1 Public venues
00:12:17 3.2 Neighborhoods
00:14:34 4 Other holidays
00:16:59 5 Environment, recycling, and safety
00:18:23 6 Light sculptures
00:20:47 6.1 Examples
00:20:55 7 See also
00:21:12 8 Notes
00:21:20 9 External links
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Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights) are lights used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide. The custom goes back to when Christmas trees were decorated with candles, which symbolized Christ being the light of the world; these were brought by Christians into their homes in early modern Germany.Christmas trees displayed publicly and illuminated with electric lights became popular in the early 20th century. By the mid-20th century, it became customary to display strings of electric lights along streets and on buildings; Christmas decorations detached from the Christmas tree itself. In the United States, it became popular to outline private homes with such Christmas lights in tract housing beginning in the 1960s. By the late 20th century, the custom had also been adopted in other nations, including outside the Western world, notably in Japan and Hong Kong. Throughout Christendom, Christmas lights continue to retain their symbolism of Jesus as the light of the world.In many countries, Christmas lights, as well as other Christmas decorations, are traditionally erected on or around the first day of Advent. In the Western Christian world, the two traditional days when Christmas lights are removed are Twelfth Night and Candlemas, the latter of which ends the Christmas-Epiphany season in some denominations. Leaving the decorations up beyond Candlemas is historically considered to be inauspicious.
Ideation Conference - Jeremy Cowart, Founder of Purpose Hotel
In this talk at The Ideation Conference, Jeremy Cowart shares his story, work and thoughts about why it's possible to pursue the impossible in our lives.
Jeremy Cowart is an award-winning photographer, artist, and entrepreneur whose goal in life is to use his creative platform to inspire and help others. He was named the “Most Influential Photographer on the Internet” by Huffington Post, Forbes and Yahoo in 2014. Jeremy is a sought-after speaker, having presented at TEDx, the United Nations and creative conferences across the country. His latest endeavor is The Purpose Hotel, a planned global for-profit hotel chain designed to fuel the work of not-for-profit organizations. He’s also the founder of a global photography movement, Help-Portrait and an online teaching platform, See University. His new book “I’m Possible” is available at PossibleBook.com. He lives in Franklin, TN with his wife and four children.
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Kimberly D. Iles Art Awards Presentations 2018
Short artist talks by 10 University of Tennessee students and an awards ceremony to honors their achievements.