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Continue reading →: Swamp Glamour: Reptiles, Skunk Apes, & Slot Machines in the Everglades National ParkIf it’s elusive, slithery, chompy, scaly, furry, and/or enjoys hiding in the elements, you will find it here.
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Continue reading →: Outer Banks Adventures: Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head, & Bodie IslandKitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head, Bodie Island, Whalebone Junction… just the names of these places invoke vivid images of screeching dragons, superhuman villains, and mutant sea creatures.
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Continue reading →: Adventures in Outer Banks, NC: Pilots, Pirates, & Dingbatters in OcracokeOcracoke is a village on Ocracoke Island in the lower Outer Banks of North Carolina. There are no other towns or villages on the island, but it is helpful to understand the distinction. Wokokkon was first used by the Croatan and other Native American tribes as hunting and fishing grounds…
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Continue reading →: Grave Digger & Monster Jam Mania at Digger’s DungeonMy younger brother is a monster truck maniac and I have taken him to few jams over the years. Not my thing, but I am always trying to come up with ideas and find events that make him happy. Recently he asked me to take him to a monster truck…
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Continue reading →: Cape Hatteras National Seashore & the Graveyard of the Atlantic in OBXThis stretch of the Outer Banks has a sense of primordial abandon about it. Wild horses gallop between the ocean and gigantic sand dunes. It’s just miles and miles and miles of otherworld.
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Continue reading →: Manteo, NC & the Lost Colony of RoanokeColony Governor John White and some of his men later crossed the ocean again to gather supplies but the Spanish War was raging and they were delayed. Three years, delayed. When they finally returned to the colony, there was nothing left. Everyone and everything had vanished.
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Continue reading →: Historic Bethabara Park: God’s Acres & The Moravian VillageMoravians bury their dead in uniform grid patterns under flat, square, white marble gravestones. You will not find any headstones, monuments, or mausoleums in a God’s Acre. Instead of grouping bodies together by familial bonds, they are divided and buried according to their sex and age at time of death.…
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Continue reading →: The Moravian Village of Bethania, NC: First Planned and Last to StandGregor Mendel, Sigmund Freud, Alphonse Mucha, Oskar Schindler, Ivana Trump, and composer Leoš Janáček are just a few notable icons that claim or are allegedly of Moravian descent.
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Continue reading →: Monterey, Tennessee: Bee Rock Overlook & The Standing Stone MonumentLegends say the 12-ft tall monolith mysteriously appeared on the Indian Trail dividing two tribal territories; naturally shaped or perhaps carved to look like a dog. Weather, war, and vandalism have made it an unrecognizable fragment of what it once was.
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Continue reading →: Cummins Falls State Park: Dive Into Tennessee’s Finest WaterfallsCummins Falls has been a popular swimming hole for locals for over a century, gaining most of its momentum among tourists in the last decade. I first learned about it in 2011 at a music festival in Cookeville, when some friends went hiking and found an easy way in. At…
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Continue reading →: Dandridge, TN: Wrestlers, War, & Baked BeansHistoric Dandridge is the second oldest town in East Tennessee and it was graciously saved from flooding during the construction of TVA’s Douglas Dam. Dandridge was founded in 1783 when its first white European settlers began carving their miserable new lives into the flanks of Appalachia. Prior to that…
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Continue reading →: Douglas Dam: A Key Player in Supplying WWII with Hydroelectric PowerFranklin D. Roosevelt was a busy man back in the 1940s but let’s talk about one of his most legendary and long-lasting New Deal Programs, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and the Douglas Dam. Today’s theme song is brought to you by Midlake: In 1941, President Roosevelt coordinated funding and…
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