Summer 2026 - Waynesville, NC Week 3

Started the week by meeting friends at the  Valley Tavern for  Buccaneers game.

The Bucs lost but there was also a Bill's game and they won after much nail biting in the 4th quarter.

Everyone was happy about that!

Our friends Chris and Tom invited us to join them for lunch at Cataloochie Ranch up by the ski area.

It's beautiful inside

We sat outside

For the view!  It sits up on a mountain at 4800' 

Lodge and several cabins

There's a pool for guests.

They have horses and cattle

Might have to try and horseback ride.

Nice lunch!

Group outing to the Foxfire Museum in Mountain View Georgia

The Savannah House

The Savannah House is the oldest authentic structure at the Foxfire Museum

Built circa 1820. near Savannah Creek in North Carolina and was moved and reconstructed at the Foxfire in 1975

It was home to four generations of the same family, with multiple generations raising large families under its single roof.

The Wagon Shed

This wagon is documented as the only surviving wagon known to have traveled the Trail of Tears during the Cherokee removal from their native lands in the Southeast.

More than 16,000 Cherokee people from Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama were rounded up by federal and state troops starting in 1838. 4,000 -5,000 died along the way.

The Museum cabin contains traditional woodworking implements, handmade tools, broom-making equipment, handcrafted buckets, and a scale model of a moonshine still.

The Gott Cabin was built by Peter Gott, a renowned hand-hewn log cabin builder and log-smith from North Carolina. The cabin is frequently home to Les Barnett, an educator and artist known for playing homemade canjos and acoustic music from the porch. 

The backs of these instruments are a variety of thingsnsuch as a dog bowl: jello mold, and silver serving bowl

And wooden cigar boxes.

Patti's signed up Dale for the last spot in one of his instrument making shops.

There's a blacksmith shop.  Built from the remains of an old barn, the historic shop contains tools dating past the 1850s.

The Moore House, built in the classic dog-trot style, features an open central breezeway dividing two separate log cabins under a common roofline, designed to keep living areas cool during hot summer.  

It features regional Appalachian artifacts, historical craft displays, hand-carved wooden toys, and woven basket collection.

Cool Spider Webs everywhere 

Something we need to get back to!

Thought it would be a large open area like the village at the Ocunaluftee Visitor Center but the buildings are spread out in the woods.  Stairmaster!

A Children's play village

While we were below there was a loud crash, bang, boom!

A huge tree fell in the woods. It did fall because we were in the woods and heard it.

It was right next to the Chapel

There goes Gary ringing my bell again 

The Shooting Creek cabin was closed

Took a photo through the window.  Looks like it contains displays on appalachian music.

The Grist Mill was the very first building moved to the site in 1973 by a group of high school students.

The mill was restored to full, operational working order, featuring its traditional water wheel.

Another thing we need to get back to.

Warwoman Cabin was built in the late 1880s and  relocated to the museum to preserve traditional Appalachian architecture

 The interior features a model of a typical mid-20th-century Appalachian kitchen (spanning the 1930s to 1970s), complete with an old-time Philco radio and a traditional wood-burning cookstove

The Phillips Cabin 

Worked up an appetite so

head to the Blue Hound BBQ for lunch 

Great Day!