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Ernie Blankenship shared a table with friends G.G. Crooks, who is from Bogalusa, La., and Marian Oates.

Photo by Sherri Gardner Howell

Ernie Blankenship shared a table with friends G.G. Crooks, who is from Bogalusa, La., and Marian Oates.

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  • Jody Curtis and Cindy Spence check out the big bear on the silent auction table. Cindy was a first-timer to the Legacy of Tremont event.
  • Ken Voorhis, executive director of the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, performs a number to close out the Legacy of Tremont event.
  • Entertaining the crowd with her folk stories and songs is storyteller Elizabeth Rose, who is also an elementary school principal in Roane County.
  • John Wilbanks and Booty Miller talk with Great Smoky Mountains National Park ranger Karen Ballentine.
  • Ernie Blankenship shared a table with friends G.G. Crooks, who is from Bogalusa, La., and Marian Oates.
  • Jennifer and Ken Voorhis talk with Tremont board member Ed Pershing.
  • Enjoying the ice-breaking “bingo” game at the Legacy of Tremont dinner are Suzette Donovan and Jeff and Beth Gotcher.
  • Meredith Goins, public relations and development director for Tremont, welcomes the crowd to the second annual Legacy of Tremont dinner.
  • Connie and Mike Clemmer entertain the Legacy of Tremont guests before dinner. Connie is playing a bowed Psaltry and Mike a dulcimer.
  • Kathy Wilbanks, center, greets Legacy of Tremont dinner guests Joan Kropff and Sue Kropff.
  • Helen Fry and her daughter, Georgiana Vines came to support Tremont. Helen’s husband, George Fry, was superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from 1963 until 1969. He died in 2000 at the age of 89.

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