Highcountry Almanac

Preservation

Buildings, Trades, & Neighborhoods

Wildlife

Land, Water, & Life

Culture

Skill, Song, & Story

Notes

Correspondence
The Holding House
The Holding House
The midday sun over the Tellico Plains valley does not invite movement. By three in the afternoon in mid-July, the humidity has settled into the bottomland along the river like... Read more...
The Climb Out of Tellico Plains
The Climb Out of Tellico Plains
The asphalt begins where the houses stop, just past the edge of Tellico Plains. In the valley, the July air holds the heavy, river-bottom heat of East Tennessee—a thick, wet... Read more...
Singing the Notes.
Singing the Notes.
Before the leader has finished naming the page, the sound is already up — a raw, many-voiced roar of bare vowels slammed against the white pine walls of Headrick's Chapel.... Read more...
Dogwood
Dogwood
April in Knoxville. The drive to work changes overnight. White blooms appear in the understory where yesterday there were only bare branches, and the ridgelines have shifted in a way... Read more...
The Geography of Sundays
The Geography of Sundays
On the official maps of federal remembrance, the day is singular, fixed by legislative decree to the final Monday of May. It operates as a uniform national pause, a synchronized... Read more...