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The program will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium of WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center.
Free’s presentation will examine the changing Smoky Mountain landscape along the old Oconaluftee Turnpike, a toll road built to connect the North Carolina and Tennessee sides of the Smokies in the 1830s. Following the path of an old Native American trail, the turnpike was for many years the only road crossing the Smokies.
Free has worked in the Smokies for seven years. His duties with the park’s Division of Resource Education and Visitor Services include guiding history hikes, presenting campground evening programs and providing costume interpretation at the Mountain Farm Museum.
The Mountain Heritage Center is presenting the fall folk life series in conjunction with WCU’s Office of the Provost, Philip Coyle of WCU’s ethnography laboratory, and Tom Hatley, the university’s Sequoyah Distinguished Professor in Cherokee Studies.
The museum is located on the ground floor of WCU’s H.F. Robinson Administration Building. For more information, call (828) 227-7129 or visit www.wcu.edu/mhc on the Web.
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