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Author & UNC-Asheville Professor Dan Pierce Loves To Explore The History Of Great Smoky Mountains NP


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Dan Pierce is UNC-Asheville's National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Professor in the Humanities. He's written several books on the history of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Pierce attributes his love of the park to first passing through it on Highway 441 when his family moved to Asheville from Arkansas in the 1950's. His book Hazel Creek: The Life and Death of an Iconic Mountain Community , will be the subject of a lecture Saturday at UNC-Asheville's Reuter Center. That's
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