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God's Blessing
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Rededication Ceremony - September 2, 2009
 
smoky mountain mist

God's Blessing
on the Park at the rededication ceremony of Great Smoky Mountains National Park on September 2, 2009. Several speakers had spoken a blessing on the National Park during the ceremony. Most moving was the blessing spoken by Cherokee Indian Tribe elder, Jerry Wolfe. As Dolly Parton completed the performance of her song "Forever Home," which was the final part of the ceremony, a mass amount of "Mist," "Blue Smoke" rose from the mountains in the East and quickly moved towards the ceremony spot. The crowd gasped, and I ran to capture the moment with pictures.








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