For years I’ve seen paintings in Asheville and the surrounding little towns of a mountain range called Seven Sisters. Is the mountain range named after them?
Hey Anita :) Hmm. I had to process this one a little more on my way to access WiFi.
As to "The Seven Sisters," it most likely would be peaks named on the Tennessee side, but at the same time, a state line designation through and within a new National Park during their lifetimes meant less than it does today. In many ways I am very thankful for the way it once was. Maybe a few of them are on the North Carolina side. I beam at the concept of that in the here and now though!
I have come to believe that the Smokies, to all of its peoples through the centuries, was a far older nation than our own. Once we arrived as a nation state, of course, current "history" would look askant at me for saying such a thing. I belong to 'American History,' but the Smokies were an anomaly all the way up into the 1970's. Some would even push it to the 1980's. But, I'm certain from what I have already read of these Walker sisters, that their homeland, their Nation, was the Smoky Mountains.
Which is why I believe in my heart, and certainly within the logic of my mind, that they claimed hegemony over the National Parks, which was a subset of the United States of America. Legal jurisprudence supported the sisters, as did the ultimate determination by those who ran the National Parks in a very dominating way at that time, in order to be able to rest the remnants of the natural lands, its flora and fauna, into a protected zone. Shielding it from the Robber Barons of that era who had decimated the entire region. America has always had robber barons; we always will. But at that crucial time, the National Parks Service recognized the sisters' claim. The NPS should be remembered for having done so.
I think it to be one of the loveliest stories in the history of the NPS and National Parks; we even, in a way, have outperformed Yellowstone in this one regard.
For years I’ve seen paintings in Asheville and the surrounding little towns of a mountain range called Seven Sisters. Is the mountain range named after them?
I believe, indeed, it is. If it's not, it damned well should be!
Hey Anita :) Hmm. I had to process this one a little more on my way to access WiFi.
As to "The Seven Sisters," it most likely would be peaks named on the Tennessee side, but at the same time, a state line designation through and within a new National Park during their lifetimes meant less than it does today. In many ways I am very thankful for the way it once was. Maybe a few of them are on the North Carolina side. I beam at the concept of that in the here and now though!
I have come to believe that the Smokies, to all of its peoples through the centuries, was a far older nation than our own. Once we arrived as a nation state, of course, current "history" would look askant at me for saying such a thing. I belong to 'American History,' but the Smokies were an anomaly all the way up into the 1970's. Some would even push it to the 1980's. But, I'm certain from what I have already read of these Walker sisters, that their homeland, their Nation, was the Smoky Mountains.
Which is why I believe in my heart, and certainly within the logic of my mind, that they claimed hegemony over the National Parks, which was a subset of the United States of America. Legal jurisprudence supported the sisters, as did the ultimate determination by those who ran the National Parks in a very dominating way at that time, in order to be able to rest the remnants of the natural lands, its flora and fauna, into a protected zone. Shielding it from the Robber Barons of that era who had decimated the entire region. America has always had robber barons; we always will. But at that crucial time, the National Parks Service recognized the sisters' claim. The NPS should be remembered for having done so.
I think it to be one of the loveliest stories in the history of the NPS and National Parks; we even, in a way, have outperformed Yellowstone in this one regard.
And I dearly Love Yellowstone!