A Wonderment Of Mountains: The Great Smokies

by Carson Brewer, Sam Venable (Introduction)

"Carson Brewer at his absolute best." - Sam Venable Carson Brewer on... Mountain places Snow was nice and crunchy underfoot. Not crunchy like peanuts or cornflakes. Rather, it was a silky whispery crunchy. Mountain plants You can bury your nose deep in the cool violet bed and smell the mix of life and death while pondering the unceasing cycle of each into the other. Mountain People Lem Ownby...has plowed oxen, mules, and horses on the forty-four acre farm on Jakes Creek. But he has never owned or driven an automobile. The Carson Brewer was a reporter and columnist for more than forty years. His columns on conservation issues and on the Great Smoky Mountains earned him the E.J. Meeman Conservation Award (twice) from the Scripps-Howard Foundation, the Golden Press Card award from the Society of Professional Journalists (which also named a scholarship in his honor in 1984), and the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the Knoxville Writers Guild. He died on January 15, 2003.

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

Reviews

[David Ward · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Wonderment of Mountains, The Great Smokies: Selected Columns by Carson Brewer (Tenpenny Publishing 1981)(917.68) is a selection of the best columns written by Carson Brewer over his thirty-five years on the staff of the Knoxville News Sentinel in Knoxville, Tennessee which is located just outside the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mr. Brewer was much-loved by a dedicated and loyal readership; he wrote on topics about the Smokies that interested him: hiking, the natural history of the Smokies, interesting characters, and mountain lore, humor, flora and fauna. These columns are every bit as invigorating as a day in the hills. My rating: 8/10, finished 2/4/2007.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read it during a visit to the Smokies this past spring. Enjoyed it very much!