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French Broad River

Sevierville/Boyd's Creek TN

“As towns situated along the French Broad are connected via waterway to New Orleans, a flatboat trade flourished along the river in the early 19th century. In 1793, James Hubert, who lived along Dumplin Creek, established Hubbert’s Flat Landing to trade with flatboats moving up and down the river. In the early 19th century, Knoxville and Asheville were connected via Route 17, a crude road which followed the banks of the French Broad. This new road gave Tennessee's cattle drovers greater access to markets along the east coast. In 1820, a stagecoach road connected Sevierville with Maryville to the west. Sevierville's situation as a county seat along these early roads helped it to grow. By 1833, the town had a population of 150, including two doctors, two carpenters, a tanner, two tailors, a shoemaker, three stores, a hatter, two taverns, and two mills.  Distilleries were popular means of supplemental income. By 1850, John Chandler's distillery was producing 6,000 gallons of whiskey per year.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevierville,_Tennessee

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Chickamaugas stone

18" x 9" x 5"

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Nolichucky River

Erwin TN

Sun is with 19˚ Sagittarius, the Sabien Symbol;

"PHASE 259 (SAGITTARIUS 19°): PELICANS MENACED BY THE BEHAVIOR AND REFUSE OF MEN SEEK SAFER AREAS FOR BRINGING UP THEIR YOUNG.

KEYNOTE: The need for people concerned with the future to discover a new way of living and more wholesome surroundings.

The evident reason for using “pelicans” at this stage of the cyclic process is that tradition tells us that these birds are so concerned with their young that they give their own blood and flesh to feed their progeny. Whether this is fact or symbol, the meaning of this picture refers to a situation that lately has acquired great urgency. Our technological society is polluting not only our global environment, but the mind and feeling-responses of new generations as well. The search for a new way of life is seen by many people to be imperative.

In this fourth symbol of the fifty-second sequence we are told that the race’s survival  has become a matter of extreme importance. Whole animal species may be destroyed by our civilization; mankind itself is in danger. Going to distant planets is hardly the answer. A generation may have to sacrifice itself for the sake of its descendants."  

http://www.mindfire.ca/An%20Astrological%20Mandala/An%20Astrological%20Mandala%20-%20Sagittarius%2016-30.htm

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first snow stick drawing...

snow and Earth cosmologies

Paint Rock NC

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Shelton Laurel Creek/tributary with Big Laurel Creek with French Broad River...

Laurel NC

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Shelton Laurel Creek/tributary with Big Laurel Creek with French Broad River...

Flag Pond TN

it is presumed that Flag Pond is named for the abundance of Blue Flag that grows in the area...

healing prevails...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dlanglois

“Blue flag was one of the most popular medicinal plants amongst various native North American Indian tribes. In modern herbalism it is mainly employed to detoxify the body - it increases urination and bile production and has a mild laxative effect. Some caution should be exercised in its use, however, since there are reports that it is poisonous. The fresh root is quite acrid and when taken internally causes nausea, vomiting, colic and purging. The dried root is much less acrid. This remedy should not be prescribed for pregnant women. The root is alterative, anti-inflammatory, cathartic, cholagogue, diaphoretic, diuretic, emetic and sialagogue. Taken internally as a tea, the root has been used as a strong laxative or emetic that also acts strongly on the liver and promotes the excretion of excess body fluids. It is also stimulant for the circulatory and lymphatic system. Its detoxifying effect make it useful in the treatment of psoriasis, acne, herpes, arthritis, swollen glands, pelvic inflammatory disease etc. Externally, it is applied to skin diseases, wounds and rheumatic joints. The roots are harvested in late summer and early autumn and are usually dried for later use. The roots were boiled in water and then mashed to make a poultice which was used to relieve the pain and swelling associated with sores and bruises.”

“Plants For A Future can not take any responsibility for any adverse effects from the use of plants. Always seek advice from a professional before using a plant medicinally.”

http://pfaf.org/User/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Iris+versicolor

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Nolichucky River

Limestone TN , birthplace of Davy Crockett 

the bondage many of us feel today may be more entwined, larger and a more condenseed version of what Crockett wrote about...  he was killed with his weapons and violence at hand at the Alamo fighting Mexican forces that were trying to capture back their lands... this is the self perpetuating nature of warring and fear based moralities... there is resolution beyond fate when we choose to embrace each other and our selves with a mythology of cooperating toward accepting peaceful functioning among all selves, tribes and cosmologies...

In this letter, written in December 1834, Davy Crockett complains about President Andrew Jackson’s forced removal of the Cherokees from their homes to Oklahoma. Crockett opposed that policy and feared Vice President Martin Van Buren would continue it, if elected president. He even goes so far as to say that if Van Buren is elected, Crockett would leave the United States for the “wildes of Texas.” Crockett writes, “I will consider that government a Paridice to what this will be. In fact at this time our Republican Government has dwindled almost into insignificancy our [boasted] land of liberty have almost Bowed to the yoke of [sic] Bondage.” Crockett actually went to Texas before Martin Van Buren was elected president, and he died in the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, months before the election. 

Excerpt from the letter; 

"I have almost given up the Ship as lost. I have gone So far as to declare that if he Martin vanBuren is elected that I will leave the united States for I never will live under his kingdom. before I will Submit to his Government I will go to the wildes of Texas. I will consider that government a Paridice to what this will be. In fact at this time our Republican Government has dwindled almost into insignificancy our [boasted] land of liberty have almost Bowed to the yoke of Bondage. Our happy days of Republican principles are near at an end when a few is to transfer the many."...

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/age-jackson/resources/davy-crockett-removal-cherokees-1834

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