Wilderness wildlife week Schedule for day 4 and Appalachiafest

More than halfway through Wilderness Wildlife Week the classes and hiking trips are still top notch and Tuesdays schedule is non stop education and fun.

Seminar registration will be open in the front lobby from 7:00 am - 7:30 pm and the Photo Exhibit and Textiles of the Smokies Exhibit will be open from 9:00 am - 6:00 pm.

• 9:00 am - 9:45 am Woodpeckers Nature's Home Builder's by Regina Garr


• 9:00 am - 10:00 am What's in the Camera Bag? Presented by Andrea Sheatly


• 10:00 am - 11:00 am Returning the Osprey to the Nest in Tennessee by Ken Dubke


• 10:00 am - 11:30 am Mr. Herb Clabo - The Great Smoky Mountains - My Backyard with Veta King


• 10:30 am - 11:30 am The Art of Dowsing: Do you have the gift? By Charlie Monday (Pre-registration is required and is limited to 30 participants)


• 10:30 am - Noon True Grit "Appalachian Style, People of the Blue Ridge and Toe River Valley" with Kathy Gwinn


• 10:30 am - Noon Cades Cove Memories: Former Cades Cove residents share their stories: Moderated by Ruth Caughron Davis


• 11:30 am - Noon A Tribute to Mr. Herb Clabo A Smoky Mountain Treasure Moderated by Veta King


• 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm Current Fisheries and Aquatic Issues for the Great Smoky Mountains and Abroad presented by Matt Kulp


• 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm The Back of Beyond- Horace Kephart in the Smoky Mountains presented by Arthur McDade


• 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Happy Birthday Ole Smoky! Mountain folks tell their greatest Smoky Mountain Memories on the "big screen"! with Veta King and Ruth Miller


• 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Jim Thompson: Smoky Mountain Photographer with Ed Thompson, Jr.


• 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Let's Sketch A Bird - Advanced Sketching with Louise Bales (Pre-registration is required and is limited to 20 participants)


• 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Air Quality Update for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park presented by Jim Renfro


• 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Appalachian People and their Herbs with W.C. and Glenna Julian and Donna Stinett


• 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Old Time Mountain Music Concert performed by the Boogertown Gap Band


• 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Tell Your Own Smoky Mountain Story: Audience members to share their own Smoky Mountain tales with Veta King


• 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Great Smoky Mountains National Park: State of the Park presented by public information officer Bob Miller


• 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Wild About Turkeys with Allen Ricks


• 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Kids Track: Learn About Bears through Activities for Kids presented by Anne Allison and Kathy Sherrard (Pre-registration is required and is limited to 20 participants)


• 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm "Hypothermia-I'm Not Cold" with Lee Lewis


• 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Civil War Period Music by Tony Thomas


• 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Old Harp Shaped Note Singing: East Tennessee shaped note singers perform traditional hymns that were used in old time singing schools around the Great Smoky mountains region. The "do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do" singing tradition has been kept alive in this area by a group of singers who attend Old Harp Singings in Blount, Sevier and Knox Counties. Conducted by Mr. David Sarten


• 4:45 pm - 5:45 pm The Meigs Post and the Meigs Line Through the Smokies Stories from their new book by Joe Kelley and Dwight McCarter


• 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Black Bear Management in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with Bill Stiver


• 6:15 pm Sign up for Thursday Hikes

Night program is called Appalachiafest - A Musical Celebration of our Heritage! and will be held at the Country Tonite Theater in Pigeon Forge, TN. Proceeds of Appalachiafest will benefit the Friends of the Smokies and Public Radio WDVX. Tickets for adults cost $15 and children 17 and under only $5.

• 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm the Boogertown Gap Band will perform in the theatre lobby
• 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Main Stage Concert Featuring Tim O'Brien, Dirk Powell and Riley Baugus

If you become a member of Friends of the Smokies and help supoort the park, you get a 10% discount of cabin rentals when you use the discount code TFOTS10!