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5 Spring Road Trips to Get Your Wildflower Fix


5 Spring Road Trips to Get Your Wildflower Fix
April 29, 2021 | By Rebecca Parsons
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Spring has sprung, and the wildflowers are here! Spectacular color displays are dotting hillsides and wilderness areas across the nation. It’s time to hop in the car and experience the blooms while they last.
Although sightseers can spot wildflowers year-round, they’re most abundant during the spring due to the influx of sunlight after months of rain or snow. Road trips are a good way to get outside, see the sights, and cover a lot of ground. ....

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Great Smoky Mountains to address omission of Black people in park history


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. ....

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