Tag Archives: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Not only no screen savers but no screens in this one-room school house
This is the view from the back of Greenbrier School. You can see this is “back to basics” in its true sense — wooden benches and slant-top desks and windows for temperature control.
How the blackboard got its name
The original blackboard was just that — boards painted black. Writing could be done with chalk and wiped off or washed off. In education’s current enthusiasm for video prjectio units and PowerPoint, we need to remember that the blackboard approach to teaching can allow for more interaction with the class and more spontaneity for the […]
Greenbrier School in the Great Smoky Mountains
The large photo is the class of 1909. Quite the age range. I trust they dressed for the photo and didn’t regularly dress like that — for hiking to school and sitting in what would be a very warm building for some months of the year. The water fountain was a bucket with a gourd […]
On log vs. log on
This is one of the trails children hiked daily to reach Greenbeier School in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. No school buses in the 1900s so some students walked 13 miles every day. No state-mandated physical ed class would be needed to promote personal fitness.
Atop Mt. Le Conte
A “highlight” of the year for me is hiking to Mt. Le Conte, the third highest peak in the Smokies. The only way to get to Mt. Le Conte is hiking one of five trails. My favorite is the Alum Cave Trail, about five miles (up, up, up). This was a view at sunset. Not […]
Looking for posts
A different kind of ‘posts’ along Sparks Lane in Cades Cove in the Smokies. I’ve not been posting as I’ve been hiking in the Smokies. Cades Cove at one point had more than 300 residents, who were very self-reliant, as they were miles from the nearest store. “No service available” certainly meant much more than […]
View of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from Look Rock
This is one of my photos taken during a hike in the Smokies in May 2007. In the mid to late 1800s, children who lived in the area would walk up to six miles a day to attend school in a one-room schoolhouse. One of my favorites is Little Greenbrier School.
Julie Dodd 