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SUMMARY:History Talks: Grandfather Mountain: The Old Man of the Blue Ridge
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Presented by North Carolina Humanities Road Scholar Michael Hardy,
this History Talk will be held on Sunday September 8 at 2PM and is FREE to
the public.
For more than two generations, Grandfather M
ountain has been billed as "Carolina's Top Scenic Attraction." The attracti
on portion of the mountain draws tens of thousands of visitors each year, c
oming from far and wide to visit the Mildred the Bear Animal Habitat and th
e Mile High Swinging Bridge. Yet there is so much more to Grandfather Mount
ain and its past, present, and future. Many an explorer, from hunters like
Daniel Boone to early naturalists like Elisha Mitchell and Asa Gray, tram
ped through the area. The numerous caves on Grandfather hid refugees and es
caped prisoners of war during the Civil War. In the late nineteenth and ear
ly twentieth centuries, loggers stripped much of the mountain bare of timbe
r. In 1924, locals gathered for a Sunday School sing-along now known as Sin
ging on the Mountain, which celebrates its 90th anniversary in 2014. In 195
5, the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games and Gathering of Scottish Clans
started on McRae Meadows on Grandfather's slopes. In 2009, a large portion
of the backcountry of Grandfather Mountain became the Grandfather Mountain
State Park. Join award-winning author Michael C. Hardy on an hour-long visu
al history of the old man of the Blue Ridge -- Grandfather Mountain.
This project is made possible by funding fr
om the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affilia
te of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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