If you are heading to the Southeastern United States anytime during spring and summer a great place to visit is Jonesborough, which is the oldest town in Tennessee. On the eastern border of Tennessee is the beautiful Appalachian Mountains and on the western border is the legendary Mississippi River.

Into this time of uncertainty, turmoil, and great change was born one who would become one of Alabama's most influential citizens and an activist for education and prison reformation. Julia Strudwick Tutwiler was born in 1841.

One of the oldest and most fun of all traditional folk art is the dancing doll. These dolls are called jig dolls, limberjacks, busker's puppet, clogger, jigger, paddle doll or just dancing doll.

With the help of over 6,000 volunteers putting in over 200,000 hours every year, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy preserves and makes it possible that the trail's natural beauty and heritage is there for people to enjoy.

They built the earthwork platform mounds known as the Etowah Indian Mounds, which is now a National Historic Landmark and state park. It is considered the most intact site of the Mississippian culture period.

Corn pone, and a special casserole type pie are easy recipes for just about any time of the year. The aroma of these delights as they are taken out of the oven is a call to everyone that supper is on the table.

The Appalachian Trail begins at Springer Mountain in Georgia and journeys for 2,179 miles through fourteen states in the U.S. The trail follows the ridge-line of the Appalachians and into Maine, where the trail ends on Mount Katahdin.

Although the trial of Grace was the last witch trial held in North America, today she is remembered and honored as a healer, herbalist, and a good woman with a kind heart.

If you love the great outdoors and wildflowers you will love to slowly cruise throughout the Great Smoky Mountains from spring time right up to the autumn.

There are so many historical sites that will become a treasured memory when pictures, notes, and memorabilia are gathered together in an album in memory of a pivotal time in American history.