Wilderness Wildlife Week 2020 Program Schedule Tuesday, May 5 Time Session Topic Presenter(s) Location Note (LIMITED SESSIONS ONLY) The Work of a Backcountry Ranger at Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Trip Planning, 9 - 10 AM Nicholas Yarnell North 2AB Campsite Maintenance and Beyond! 9:30 - 12:30 PM Learn to Make a Small Egg Basket Becky Weaver North 1A Limited to 10, Ages 18+. Cades Cove Preservation Association Museum and the Smokies Through the Lens Digital 9:30 - 6 PM Event Staff Greenbriar Hall A&B Photography Contest 9:30 - 6 PM Free Make It & Take It Louise Bales Booth A 9:30 - 6 PM Free Upcycled Make & Take Keep Sevier Beautiful Booth B 10 - 11 AM Honey: Our Gift from the Bees Jim Strohm North 3A 10 - 11 AM Collecting and Telling Family Stories Jim Eastin North 3B Great Smoky Mountains Association Film 10 - 11 AM An Island in the Sky: Clingmans Dome and the Spruce-Fir Forests Fireplace Showcase Fresh Water Gems: 10 Things You Probably Don't Know About Fish in Great Smoky Mountains 10:30 - 11:30 AM Matt Kulp North 2AB National Park 11:30 - 12:30 PM The History of Salt in the Mountains Jim Bordwine North 3A 11:30 - 12:30 PM Eye-Dentification: What Animal Does the Eye Belong To? Clay Thurston North 3B 11:30 - 12:30 PM Tall Tales from the Smokies Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association Fireplace Noon - 1 PM Let's Talk Trash in Bear Country Joey Holt North 2AB Limited to 30, ages 2-16. Must 1 - 2 PM Snakes Alive! Rhonda Goins and Gail Stout North 1B have a parent present. 1 - 2 PM Moonshine: The Hero Your Cocktail Deserves Old Mill Square North 3A 1 - 2 PM Learning the Autoharp: The Easy Way Brenda Lentz-Dawson Fireplace Hiking & Backpacking: Getting Started Safely With the Right Gear, Essentials, Hiking Tips and 1 - 2:30 PM Bill Deitzer, Mike Braun and Pamela Rodgers North 3B Minimal Impact 1:30 - 2:30 PM All About Beekeeping: Part One Jim Strohm North 2AB 1:30 - 3 PM C.R.A.S.E. Brett Maggard North 1A 2:30 - 3:30 PM Air Quality Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park Jim Renfro North 3A The Miracle of Metamorphosis: Follow the Day-to-Day Metamorphosis from Egg to 3 - 4 PM Stephen Lyn Bales North 2AB Migration of a Single Monarch Butterfly 3 - 4 PM Wildflowers of Tennessee Jack Carman North 3B 3 - 4:30 PM Watercolor Fun Melanie Fetterolf Booth C Limited to 12. 3:30 - 4:30 PM Stop the Bleed Erik Preske North 1A 3:30 - 4:30 PM Old-Time Music Concert Boogertown Gap Old-Time String Band Fireplace 3:45 - 4:45 PM Storytelling: The Death and Burial Practices of the Smoky Mountain Settlers Jim Rigsby Greenbriar Hall C 4 - 5 PM Sylvan Factoids: Interesting Facts about Common Trees Allen Coggins North 3A Glenna Julian, Guane Julian and Lois 4:30 - 5:30 PM Our Year with Monarchs (Butterflies) North 2AB Worthington 4:30 - 5:30 PM Incredible Wild Edibles Donna Cyr North 3B 5 - 6 PM Dulcimer Concert Tim Simek Fireplace 5:15 - 6:15 PM As It Was Give to Me: Cocke County Heritage J. Duay O'Neil Greenbriar Hall C 5:45 PM Wednesday and Thursday Outdoor Excursions Sign-Ups - Doors Close at 6 PM Tom Brosch North 2AB 6:30 PM Opening Night Welcome Butch Helton, Event Manager Greenbriar Hall C 6:45 - 7:45 PM Hiking with Little People: Ten Tips to Get Your Kids or Grandkids into the Woods Ben Montgomery Greenbriar Hall C 8 - END The Tramp & Roughrider: An Evening with John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt Lee Stetson & Alan Sutterfield Greenbriar Hall C Wednesday, May 6 Time Session Topic Presenter(s) Location When Do You Let the Bears Out?: Answers and Anecdotes from GSMNP Volunteers about 9 - 10 AM Dr. Nancy McEntee North 2AB Bears, Visitors, History and Hidden Places Within the Park 9:30 - 10:30 AM Wildflowers of the Smokies Jack Carman North 3A 9:30 - 10:30 AM Fly Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains and the Surrounding Area Johnnie Garrison North 3B Limited to 8, Ages 18+. 1 chair per 9:30 - 12:30 PM Learn to Make a Small Doll Chair David Weaver North 1A family. Cades Cove Preservation Association Museum and the Smokies Through the Lens Digital 9:30 - 6 PM Event Staff Greenbriar Hall A&B Photography Contest 9:30 - 6 PM Free Make It & Take It Louise Bales Booth A 9:30 - 6 PM Free Upcycled Make & Take Keep Sevier Beautiful Booth B 10:30 - 11:30 AM Tennessee Butterfly Monitoring Network Warren Bielenberg North 2AB 11 - Noon Logging Railroads in the Smokies: How Railroads Changed the Smokies and Elkmont Rick Turner North 3A Medicine Men, Earth Energies and Healing: The Research of Native American Ceremonial 11 - Noon Don Wells North 3B Healing Sites Disappearing Appalachia: The Slow Disappearance of the Appalachian Culture in East 11 - Noon Harry Moore and Fred Brown Greenbriar Hall C Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains Grains, Grinds and Grins: How Grains are Grown and the Process of Grinding to the Final 12:30 - 1:30 PM Old Mill Square North 3A Product Made from Grains 12:30 - 1:30 PM All About Beekeeping: Part Two Jim Strohm North 3B The Elusive Kentucky Lady’s Slipper: The Importance of Conserving This Native Tennessee 12:30 - 1:30 PM Retha Meier Greenbriar Hall C Plant 12:30 - 1:30 PM Getting Started Playing the Autoharp Brenda Lentz-Dawson Fireplace Bird Courtship: A Curious Look at Bird Courtship, Mate Selection, Pair Bonding, Nest Building, 12:45 - 1:45 PM Stephen Lyn Bales North 2AB Parenting and Even Bird Divorce 1 - 3 PM Painting Nature in Oils Aurora Harrison Bull Booth C Limited to 10, Ages 12+. How Many is Six Million?: The Inspirational Middle School Diversity Project in Whitwell, 2 - 3 PM Rosemary Deitzer North 3A Tennessee Created the Children's Holocaust Memorial 2 - 3 PM Incredible Wild Edibles Donna Cyr North 3B 2 - 3 PM Arches and Natural Bridges of the Big South Fork Region Keith Garnes Greenbriar Hall C Great Smoky Mountains Association Film 2 - 3 PM Seasons of the Smokies: A Wondrous Diversity of Life Fireplace Showcase 2:15 - 3:45 PM Birds of Sevier County Keith Watson North 2AB 3:30 - 4:30 PM Uncle Lem's Legacy Lives On Kevin Hill North 3A 3:30 - 4:30 PM Using Your Senses with Herbs: Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, Feeling, and Tasting Glenna Julian and Ruthie Young North 3B 3:30 - 4:30 PM Our Smokies: From Destruction to Restoration from the Late 1880s to the Present Joel & Kathy Zachry Greenbriar Hall C 3:30 - 4:30 PM More Tales of the Smokies Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association Fireplace 4:15 - 5:15 PM Snakes: The Great Mousetrap Rhonda Goins and Gail Stout North 2AB 5 - 6 PM Hallelujah! You're on Holy Ground! Mike & Kathy Gwinn Greenbriar Hall C 5:30 - 7 PM Lost and Found: Search and Rescue in the Smokies Jeff Wadley North 3B 5:45 PM Friday and Saturday Outdoor Excursions Sign-Ups - Doors Close at 6 PM Tom Brosch North 2AB 6:30 - 7:30 PM Stickeen and Other Fellow Mortals Lee Stetson Greenbriar Hall C Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring True Story of the Woman Who Saved the 7:45 - END Ben Montgomery with Special Guest Greenbriar Hall C Appalachian Trail Thursday, May 7 Time Session Topic Presenter(s) Location 9:30 - 10:30 AM The Secret Geodetic Code to Design and Build Sacred Buildings Don Wells North 3B Cades Cove Preservation Association Museum and the Smokies Through the Lens Digital 9:30 - 6 PM Event Staff Greenbriar Hall A&B Photography Contest 9:30 - 6 PM Free Make It & Take It Louise Bales Booth A 9:30 - 6 PM Free Upcycled Make & Take Keep Sevier Beautiful Booth B 10 - 11 AM Crossing the Border: From National Park to Pisgah National Forest Marci Spencer North 3A 10 - 11:30 AM The Wolves of Bays Mountain Rhonda Goins and Gail Stout North 2AB Great Smoky Mountains Association Film 10:15 - 11:15 Mount LeConte: Sacred Mountain of the Smokies Fireplace Showcase 10:30 - Noon Watercolor Fun Melanie Fetterolf Booth C Limited to 12. 11 - Noon Incredible Wild Edibles Donna Cyr North 3B 11 - Noon Discovery of the Gray Fossil Site in Upper East Tennessee Harry Moore Greenbriar Hall C 11:30 - 12:30 PM Fun in the Forest - Interactive Sharing of Native Woodland Experiences Sherra Owen North 3A 11:45 - 12:30 PM Mini Autoharp Concert Brenda Lentz-Dawson Fireplace Noon - 1 PM Look & Touch Wildlife: Preserved Wildlife Specimens and Live Reptiles Chris Ogle North 2AB Noon - 1 PM John Muir’s Wild Mountain Adventures Lee Stetson Greenbriar Hall C 12:30 - 1:30 PM The Lemons Hollow: Poetry and Stories of Growing Up in the Foothills of the Smokies Bobbie Lovell North 3B 1 - 2 PM Music of the People: Dulcimer Concert Knoxville Area Dulcimer Club Fireplace 1 - 3 PM Painting Nature in Oils Aurora Harrison Bull Booth C Limited to 10, Ages 12+. 1:30 - 2:30 PM Birds, Wildlife, and Habitat Management of Seven Islands State Birding Park Stephanie Mueller North 2AB 1:30 - 2:30 PM The National Parks of Southern Appalachia: Great Smokies and Shenandoah National Parks Bill Deitzer North 3A 1:30 - 4:30 PM Learn to Make a Small Egg Basket Becky Weaver North 1A Limited to 10, Ages 18+. 2 - 3 PM Finding Inspiration in Great Smoky Mountains National Park Through Clay Old Mill Square North 3B 2 - 3 PM Rock Formations in Great Smoky Mountains National Park Harry Moore Greenbriar Hall C 3 - 4 PM Critters Visiting Our Backyard: Year Two Bob & Lois Worthington North 2AB 3 - 4 PM Wildflowers of the Southern Highlands Jack Carman North 3A 3 - 4 PM Music of the People: Dulcimer Concert Knoxville Area Dulcimer Club Fireplace 3:30 - 4:30 PM Let's Talk about the Cherokee Brave & Arlene Eagle North 3B 3:45 - 4:45 PM Live Birds of Prey American Eagle Foundation Greenbriar Hall C 4:30 - 5:30 PM Bird Banding: So Much to Learn from Local and Migratory Birds Mark Armstrong North 2AB Identifying Local Birds of Prey: Quick Tips on Identifying Eagles, Vultures, Owls, Hawks and 4:30 - 5:30 PM Stephen Lyn Bales North 3A Falcons 5 - 6 PM Music of Our American Roots Lost Mill String Band Fireplace 5:30 - 6:30 PM The Good Billionaire: Why John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Rescued the Smokies Steve Kemp Greenbriar Hall C 7 - END Heaven & Nature Sing Ken Jenkins, Judy Felts & Friends Greenbriar Hall C Friday, May 8 Time Session Topic Presenter(s) Location Love, Trails and Dinosaurs: The Inspirational Story of the First Person with Autism to 9:30 - 10:30 AM Theresa Moore North 3A Complete all GSMNP Trails 9:30 - 10:30 AM The Story of Great Smoky Mountains Association: Who We Are and What We Do Laurel Rematore North 3B Limited to 8, Ages 18+. 1 chair per 9:30 - 12:30 PM Learn to Make a Small Doll Chair David Weaver North 1A family. Cades Cove Preservation Association Museum and the Smokies Through the Lens Digital 9:30 - 6 PM Event Staff Greenbriar Hall A&B Photography Contest 9:30 - 6 PM Free Make It & Take It Louise Bales Booth A 9:30 - 6 PM Free Upcycled Make & Take Keep Sevier Beautiful Booth B 10 - 11 AM Fox Tails: Learn about the Red Fox Rhonda Goins and Gail Stout North 2AB 10 - 11 AM Voices of Cades Cove: An Oral History Jim Motter Greenbriar Hall C Growing Up in a Ranger Household: Experiences of Growing Up in a Park Ranger Home in 11 - Noon Nelson Kelley North 3A Different Parks Bill Deitzer, Sheridan Roberts and Jay & 11 - Noon Volunteering in Great Smoky Mountains National Park North 3B Sandra Aldrich 11:30 - 12:30 PM Ephemeral by Nature: : The Life Stories of Interesting Short-Lived East Tennessee Species Stephen Lyn Bales North 2AB 11:30 - 12:30 PM Cades Cove Hatched A Journey That Led to a Nursing Career Dorothy Sutton Greenbriar Hall C 12:30 - 1:30 PM I Wasn't Supposed to Be There: Survival Lessons Learned Joe Taft North 3A 12:30 - 1:30 PM People, Plants and Their Stories: Plant Folklore of Generations Past Sherra Owen North 3B 1 - 2 PM Bird Banding: So Much to Learn from Local and Migratory Birds Mark Armstrong North 2AB 1 - 2 PM Clingmans Dome: Highest Mountain in Great Smoky Mountains National Park Marci Spencer Greenbriar Hall C 1 - 2 PM Thumbprint Designs: Wildlife Art Aurora Harrison Bull Booth C Limit 10. 1 - 2 PM Civil War and Old-Time Ballads Brenda Lentz-Dawson and Ruth Barber Fireplace 1:30 - 2:30 PM Hands-On Chemistry for Kids: How to Use Science in Nature Dr. Al Hazari North 1A Limited to 18. 2 - 3 PM Beginner Photography for Adults and Kids Jim Eastin North 1B 2 - 3 PM Are Mountain Lions (Cougars, Panthers) Present in Great Smoky Mountains National Park? Dr. Don Linzey North 2AB 2 - 3 PM Celebrating 100 Bodacious Years of the Barney Google and Snuffy Smith Comic Strip John Rose North 3A 2 - 3 PM Great Smoky Mountain Adventures: Something for Everyone Bill Deitzer North 3B 2:30 - 3:30 PM Tennessee River Valley Scenes Jack Carman Greenbriar Hall C Great Smoky Mountains Association Film 2:30 - 3:30 PM Land of Falling Water: Streams and Waterfalls of the Smokies Fireplace Showcase 3:30 - 4:30 PM Taking Better Wildflower Pictures Bob Stephenson North 1B 3:30 - 4:30 PM Threatened and Endangered Species of Tennessee Chris Ogle North 2AB 3:30 - 4:30 PM Appalachian History with the Salt Maker Jim Bordwine North 3A 3:30 - 4:30 PM Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning: A Tribute to Lee and Bill Russell Joel & Kathy Zachry North 3B 4 - 5 PM Chemistry in the Natural World Showcase Dr. Al Hazari North 1A 4 - 5 PM OPEN Bob Yarbrough Greenbriar Hall C 4 - 5 PM Even More Tales from the Smokies Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association Fireplace Mythological Creatures of Tennessee: Learn from a TWRA Biologist the Truth about 5 - 6 PM Chris Ogle North 2AB Goatsuckers, Hoop Snakes and Black Panthers in Tennessee 5 - 6 PM The Trail of Tears: Many Trails Over Many Years Mark Davidson North 3A 5 - 6 PM Both Sides of the Mountain: Sevier County and Cherokee Stories Jon Elder North 3B Capturing the Smokies: Stories of Those Who Have Snared The Smokies Essence on Canvas 5:30 - 6:30 PM Carroll McMahan Greenbriar Hall C and by Camera 5:30 - 6:30 PM Grandma Gatewood Hikes to Wilderness Wildlife Week (a Special Character Portrayal) Anne Van Curen Fireplace 6:30 - 7:30 PM With New Eyes: Using Photography to Build a Sense of Place in Nature Jeff Rennicke North 2AB 6:45 - 7:45 PM Graveyard Forensics: Locating Lost Graves and Determining Age and Gender Arthur Bohanan Greenbriar Hall C 7 - 8 PM Wilderness & Wildlife-Related Improv Performance Einstein Simplified Fireplace Dr. Bill Bass with special guest emcee Frank 8 - END Forensic Anthropology in the Smokies, Appalachia, the Body Farm and Beyond Greenbriar Hall C Murphy Saturday, May 9 Time Session Topic Presenter(s) Location 8 - 1 PM Wilderness Wildlife Week Youth Trout Tournament Jason Baiamonte Covered Pavilion 9 - 1 PM Nature Photography Workshop Kendall Chiles and Jerry Whaley North 3B 9:30 - 10:30 AM The Lemons Hollow: Poetry and Stories of Growing Up in the Foothills of the Smokies Bobbie Lovell North 3A Cades Cove Preservation Association Museum and the Smokies Through the Lens Digital 9:30 - 6 PM Event Staff Greenbriar Hall A&B Photography Contest 9:30 - 6 PM Free Make It & Take It Louise Bales Booth A 9:30 - 6 PM Free Upcycled Make & Take Keep Sevier Beautiful Booth B 10 - 11 AM Owl-Standing Pellets: Learn What Our Nocturnal Hunters Eat American Eagle Foundation North 1AB Limited to 40, ages 5+. 10 - 11 AM The Dangers of Ticks Denise Cameron North 2AB 11 - Noon The Appalachian Trail: A Walk for Sunshine Jeff Alt North 3A 11 - Noon Waterfalls of Great Smoky Mountains National Park Craig Johnston Greenbriar Hall C 11:30 - 12:30 PM Bobcat Tails: Learn about Bobcats and Their Behaviors Rhonda Goins and Gail Stout North 2AB Great Smoky Mountains Association Film 11:30 - 12:30 PM A Place Called Cades Cove Fireplace Showcase 12:15 - 1:15 PM Arches and Natural Bridges of the Big South Fork Region Keith Garnes Greenbriar Hall C 12:30 - 1:30 PM Bodacious Cartooning for Kids Workshop with Snuffy Smith Cartoonist John Rose North 1AB Limited to 30, Ages 8+. 12:30 - 1:30 PM The Roots of Country Music: The Role of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee Mark Davidson North 3A 1 - 2 PM Secrets of Backyard Birds Stephen Lyn Bales North 2AB 1 - 2 PM Even Even More Tales from the Smokies Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association Fireplace 1 - 3 PM Acrylic Painting Party Melanie Fetterolf Booth C Limited to 12. Fox Hollow Creations 1:30 - 2:30 PM Learn to Make a God's Eye Ornament Becky Weaver Booth Limited to 8, ages 18+. 1:30 - 2:30 PM How to Use Natural Lighting: Photographing Streams and Waterfalls Steve Vervynckt North 3B Medicine During the Civil War: Medicines, Herbal Medicines and Medical Practices and 2 - 3 PM Jack Carman North 3A Knowledge During the Civil War 2 - 3 PM In the Shadow of Mt. LeConte Carroll McMahan Greenbriar Hall C 2:30 - 3:30 PM Bays Mountain: The Rest of the Critters Rhonda Goins and Gail Stout North 2AB 2:30 - 3:30 PM Dulcimer Concert Tim Simek Fireplace 3 - 4 PM Fun Photography for the Serious Photographer Clay Thurston North 3B 3:30 - 4:30 PM Gardening on the Wild Side with Nature's Most Important Plant Sherra Owen North 3A 3:30 - 4:30 PM The H.I.K.E. to Success: The Inspirational Journey Jeff Alt Greenbriar Hall C 4 - 5 PM Songs and Poetry of Joe Williams, the Appalachian Ragman Joe Williams Fireplace 4:45 - END Wilderness: A Life Jeff Rennicke Greenbriar Hall C