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Sarasota City Commission discusses ordinance to limit occupancy for vacation rentals
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park drips with the wonders of ecological mysteries and human history.
But while the nearly 90-year-old park is world-famous for its research and documentation of plant and animal species from fungi to fireflies, bees to black bears, archaeological digs of Cherokee and other Native American sites, and preservation of white settlers’ homes, churches and mills, there has been a gaping omission.
Long-missing from the rich palette of the remote Smoky Mountains wilderness is the story of Black Americans, many of whom were forcibly brought to the region as enslaved people.
Researchers at the national park, which spans a half-million acres across the rugged, forested border of eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina, are finally aiming to right that wrong through the African American Experience Project.
Great Smoky Mountains to address omission of Black people in park history
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Al Southwick: Sacco and Vanzetti and the Worcester connections
Al Southwick
The news stories about the Sacco and Vanzetti exhibit in the John Adams Courthouse in Boston brought me back to a day in October 1932. My father drove our old Essex slowly up Institute Road from Park Avenue and stopped at Beechmont Street. There we and others gazed at a wrecked house on the corner. It was the home of Judge Webster Thayer. It had been blasted by a bomb the night before. A policeman watched warily as we took in the scene.
The crime was never solved, but few doubted that it was retaliation for Judge Thayer’s role as presiding judge at the Sacco and Vanzetti case 10 years before. That case was an explosive episode with worldwide repercussions. When, after years of appeals, delays and newspaper frenzy, the two were finally electrocuted at the Charles Street Jail on Aug. 23, 1927, the funeral procession up Hanover Street in Boston was watched by thousands, many weeping, others probably cursing
In a late 1980s photo, Ron Davis nephew William Davis IV and his younger brother Max Davis explore Jakes Creek during a family visit to the Mebane family s Elkmont cabin. Donated photo
Ron Davis Sr. was just 17 years old when he arrived in the tiny town of Clyde, completely alone.
It was 1967, and Davis, a Black man from Knoxville, was there to start the new forestry program at Haywood Technical Institute, now known as Haywood Community College. He worked out a boarding agreement with the only Black person who lived within walking distance of the school, then located in the building that today contains Central Haywood High School, and nervously reported for his first day of class.
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