Appalachian History

Sixty Years Later, “Permanent” Oconaluftee Visitor Center Opens In Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The 6,300-square-foot visitor center and history museum, located two miles north of Cherokee, North Carolina, opened April 1 to the public.

Roger Cooper is a link to the past for what he calls Big Sandy River style fiddling. He says, “I’ve never heard anybody else call it that.”

Greed today took off from the Depression. Big companies tried to get from everybody so they could get by in case of another Depression.

Jane Puckett Greer did her part for the U.S. war effort in the 1940s, including her work with the top-secret Manhattan Project.

Once the public knew what and where the bunker was, of course, it was no longer a safe wartime shelter for Congress.