Beautiful series! Wish I could've seen it in it's earlier days! I love the Gatlinburg area!

R.I.P. Mike Maples 3/5/2019.....Mike had a wealth of knowledge about Cades Cove, the Smokies, and Gatlinburg area...Big loss to the History lovers....

I love simple… We are still neighbors like that that in a lot of places! ❤ we will help anyone in need! All they need do is ask!!! 🥰🙌🏼❤️🙏🏼✝️🌲🦅

Awesome videos ! Seems like life was much simpler back then and Neighbors were true Neighbors helping each other whenever needed. It has truly changed dramatically in my 44 years of going there. What will the next 44 years bring ?

Thank you for taking me back. I love the area back in the old days!

Thank you for giving me such a wonderful trip down memory lane. And I wish I was there to see it from the beginning to now. I've been going to Gatlinburg since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and now I am 48 years old and I still crave Gatlinburg. It's my addiction.

Very Well Done..

Thank you for the beautiful videos.

Just watched all three parts of this awesome series!!! I wish I could have seen it back then... Great job!!! Amazing how you lined up all the pictures to the areas for the "then and now" shots!!! A work of art!!! Rocky

I love to go to Gatlinburg very nice an plenty to do❤

great job

I find it interesting, knowing my mom’s people lived in those mountains for hundreds and hundreds of years before these folks rounded them up and didn’t even give em anything. The sent them to Oklahoma during the trail of tears. I’ve heard it said that what goes around comes around.

always wonder what these people where thinking back then.... Did they know how everything would change so much..

Gatlinburg TN will forever be as it as when you left it 🐻