Category Archives: What’s Happening Locally

Scottish Festival and Highland Games held in Galinburg, TN, May 14th-16th, 2010

Gatlinburg, Tennessee Scottish Festival

Scottish Games

The 29thannual Gatlinburg Scottish Festival is a lot more than just a 2-½ day runner up to the week long Grandfather Mountain Highland Games held July 8-11, on Grandfather Mountain near Linville, NC.
The Gatlinburg, Tennessee games, held May 14-16, 2010 at Mills Park, 1230 E. Parkway, on the northeast side of [...]

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A Spring Weekend Getaway, Golfing, Massages, & Shopping

Laurel Valley Golf Course & Country Club, Townsend, TN
If you need to feel righteous about golfing while your beloved “makes do” with a massage and a half-day shopping the Pigeon Forge outlets, this is the event for you.  For the eleventh year, Friends of the Mary E. Tippitt Memorial Library are hosting their Golf Tournament [...]

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park Road Closures & Piecing the Puzzle

Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail in early spring

Pieces of the Puzzle

New Years Day 2010. Looking far too cheery for the morning after! Allen, Jodi, Ashley, and Craig

While  the Cades Cove loop road or Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail are big draws for our guests at this East Tennessee Bed and Breakfast, the Great Smoky Mountain [...]

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Four Wheeling with ATV’s in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains

Keri and Tim Meeker on an ATV break at the top of Bluff Mountain in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Keri and Tim Meeker, here at Gracehill Bed and Breakfast for four days on their 1st anniversary, ran the gamut of what Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Townsend, TN have to offer with one new activity, to me at [...]

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Gatlinburg’s Craftsmen Fair at the Convention Center

Fall Display 2009
Sunday October 25th is the last day of Gatlinburg’s Craftsmen Fair at the Convention Center.  One guest said it was a step above most fairs of its kind; she is in retail and should know!  What is even more important, they made a lot of purchases for the holidays…
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Smoky Mountain Heritage Center’s Blue Ribbon County Fair and the Movie Julie, Julia

Blueberry Almond Pound Cake
A year ago we won Best Pie in the Cove at the Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center’s Blue Ribbon County Fair, so, I was a little excited about entering the fair this fall.  Two of our recipes won ribbons, a third place finish in the pound cake division and surprisingly, a second [...]

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