Alex Bledsoe grew up in western Tennessee. He's been a reporter, legal copy editor, and door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. He now lives in Wisconsin. For more information, visit him at AlexBledsoe.com and on Twitter as @AlexBledsoe.
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In this valley songs live … and kill. No one knows where the Tufa came from or how they ended up in the mountains of east Tennessee. When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there. Dark-haired and enigmatic, th... SEE MORE