Georgia on My Mind - Brasstown Bald
The total eclipse was over but the mini-family reunion continued. My sister and brother-in-law have vacationed for years in northern Georgia and now live here — so they are excellent tour guides. When I look at vistas like this with few signs of modern society, my mind tends to wander to thoughts of what it must have been like before the coming of the Europeans. This area was then populated by the Cherokee tribe. Wikipedia offers an interesting story — "Cherokee legend tells that a great flood swept over the land. All the people died except a few Cherokee families who sought refuge in a giant canoe. The canoe ran aground at the summit of a forested mountain (now known as Enotah). As there was no wild game for the people to hunt and no place for them to plant crops, the Great Spirit killed all the trees on the top of the mountain so that the surviving people could plant crops. They continued planting and lived from their crops until the water subsided."
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Location: Brasstown Bald, GA, USA
Photo credit: © B. David Cathell / Alamy / Afripics
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