Deep in the backwoods, mountain folks practiced many survival skills to create a life in the Smoky Mountains.  This festival will celebrate and educate on those skills. with live demonstrations and historic presentations. Learn how animal hides were tanned with [...]

Horace Kephart has been dead for 88 years, but his name and his story still pull an undercurrent through Western North Carolina. Kephart is acclaimed as the father of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, an outdoorsman gifted with an [...]

Ginseng, Granny Medicine and Herbs - the Lore of the Mountains is explored in this weekend of lectures, wanderings, and entertainings. FRIDAY AUGUST 27 7:00 PM: Traditional Music with William Ritter and Mike Ogletree SATURDAY AUGUST 28 10:00 AM: Wildflowers [...]

With award winning author and GM of MSMHC, Bob Plott—first book will be Strike and Stay—The Story of the Plott Hound. The Meadowlark Smoky Mountain Heritage Center — located at the beautiful Meadowlark Motel — is proud to announce a [...]

The MSMHC is proud to announce the addition of acclaimed author, outdoor survival expert, record setting hiker and elite Wilderness Search and Rescue Team member, Nancy East, to our roster of expert artists for our 2022 programs. Nancy will launch the spring hiking season with a presentation on Friday night, March 18, describing her adventures as a Search and Rescue member. On Saturday, March 19 Nancy devotes an entire day to a variety of the above mentioned wilderness survival topics to ensure your safety, comfort and enjoyment as you create memorable experiences hiking in the Great Smokies.

Award winning author and GM of MSMHC, Bob Plott Join us on for an entertaining, educational and fun afternoon and evening of history, food and music in Part II of our Heritage Book Series on March 26th, as award winning [...]

Announcing a weekend of top-quality fly fishing, hosted right here at the Meadowlark Smoky Mountain Heritage Center... Tickets & room reservations: 828-926-1717 What's better for the soul than throwing a line upstream, watching it pass, doing it again, and again, [...]

Join master potter, Cory Plott –owner and operator of Plott Ware Pottery of Clyde, N.C. – as he brings his mobile studio to our resort to teach participants to make their own piece of hand-crafted pottery.  Plott will also be [...]

Colorful Characters of the Great Smoky Mountains with Bob Plott Please join us for yet another informative, entertaining and fun afternoon and evening of history, food and music in Part IV of our Heritage Book Series, as award winning author [...]

MOTHER NATURE’S NATURAL GARDEN PROGRAMS ILA HATTER.  The event starts on Saturday, July 9th at 10:00AM` with a program featuring the legendary wildcrafting expert, renowned author, filmmaker, instructor and tour guide for the GSM National Park’s elite GSM Field School [...]