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Sunday, May 2: Breakfast at the Historic Calhoun Cherokee Indian Music with Lee Knight followed by Cherokee Storytelling. Great Smoky Mountains Association will be selling books, photos, etc.

Kephart Family will be available to sign books. Speakers include: Superintendent Dale Ditmanson, Bill Hart, Paul Bonesteel, George Ellison, George Frizzell, Libby Kephart Hargrave, Terry Maddox and Karen Wilmot Music by Daniel Gore & Friends AND Lee Knight Saturday, May 1: Breakfast at the Historic Calhoun (there is a $10 cost for those attending the breakfast on Sat and Sun who are NOT staying at the Calhoun) 10AM: Ceremony at the cemetery where Horace Kephart is buried Afternoon: Bryson City Train Depot Music by Daniel Gore & Friends.some of the best bluegrass musicians in the business are coming to Bryson City to celebrate Horace Kephart! Camping Re-enactment.camping as Kephart did!! Music with Lee Knight. Best known for Our Southern Highlanders (1913) and Camping and Woodcraft (1916), Horace Kephart’s keen interest in exploring and documenting the great outdoors would lead him not only to settle in Bryson City, North Carolina, but also to become the most significant writer about the Great Smoky Mountains in the early twentieth century. A presentation will be given to Chief Hicks of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee. EVENING: 7PM Center for the Arts, Bryson City First public announcement detailing new information and photographs taken by Horace Kephart and George Masa. WCU’s Mae Claxton and George Frizzell will join writer and historian Geo. Thursday, June 13, in the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. One 'short' naturalist hike and one 12-mile round trip hike to Bryson Place. A panel discussion will present recent discoveries and observations relating to legendary Western North Carolina figure Horace Kephart at 7 p.m. Horace Kephart Days Celebration, April 30 - Bryson City, North Carolinaįriday, April 30: DAY: Two guided hikes, both in Deep Creek.

Horace Kephart by George Frizzell