Matt & Emily and their mother Cathy are visiting on their Spring Break. Besides helping with some of the tasks related to the renovation of our mountain house and exploring the creeks, they’ve joined us for a trip into Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It’s too early in the season to head to the top of Clingman’s Dome but we did get to poke around the Oconoluftee Farm Museum talking to some of the costumed interpreters, watching the blacksmith at work, and learning that forsythia is locally known as “yellow bells”. Of course we had to take a little time for skipping stones across the surface of the Oconoluftee River before heading to Mingus Mill. There we learned this water powered mill uses a steel turbine instead of a wooden water wheel to turn the millstones that grind the grain beforee heading out to the path alongside the mill race.
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