Warm Winter Reads New books bring forest history, quiet places to life story by Brett McLaughlin
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pstate residents are frequent visitors to the DuPont Forest, witnessing its cascading waterfalls or trekking down one of its many trails. How many have ever stopped to consider how this place came to be a sanctuary open to all? Similarly, Pretty Place, Cades Cove and the South Carolina Botanical Gardens are familiar destinations, but how many of those who have visited have done so more to be able to say they’ve been there, than to immerse themselves in the reflective ambiance of these natural wonders? Now, two books, written and photographed by Carolina natives and available for winter gift-giving and reading, seek to expand appreciation of these locations.
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Cades Cove in the Smoky Mountain National Park is just one of the nearly four dozen sites suggested as getaways in a new book by two of the Upstate’s leading nature advocates. Photo courtesy of Bill Robertson
