Noted for anyone who wants to buy me something: Tim Hollis’ The Land of the Smokies: Great Mountain Memories, a history of the Tourist Trap Belt of Tennessee, which stretches roughly from Chattanooga in the west to Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge in the east. I’ve written about it before, but that’s where my family spent a couple vacations in the late ’70s, back when we had the money to do things like a family vacation. (Noted from this review in the Knoxville alt-weekly when I was driving through there a few weeks ago. By the way, that’s a really doubleplusungood alt-weekly they have there in Knoxville. Just awful, at least the one issue I saw.)
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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