The Undiscovered Smokies

This magazine is the unofficial Newcomers Guide of the Newport/Cocke County Chamber of Commerce. It strives to reflect the history, the lifestyle, and progress in Cocke County. It is distributed through the Newport/Cocke County Chamber of Commerce exclusively.

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I'm going out to clean the spring and wait for it to flow clear again.
I may taste its sweetness.

I'm going out to feel the soft yield of winter moss and mulch beneath my woods' feet.
Won't you come too?

I'm going out to hear the slow talk of some stranger becoming friend as I listen to his life.
To see the wide sweep of the river's silent power around a certain bend beneath the sycamores.

I'm going out to smell fresh rain on summer dust and the prehistoric water odors of the old French Broad in flood.
Won't you come too?

Robert Frost