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Article: Diamond in the rough - Great Smoky Mountains park visitors find Blackberry Farm a posh outpost.(Travel)
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- The Boston Herald
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- October 26, 2000
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WALLAND, Tenn. - If the Olympics Committee ever makes front porch rocking a competitive event, U.S. team headquarters should be at Blackberry Country House Hotel - affectionately known by most of its visitors as Blackberry Farm.
Out on the flagstone veranda of Blackberry's charming white 1940s Cotswold-style Main House, 20 white wooden rocking chairs sit in a wing pattern, inviting guests to take a load off and rock their troubles away. To inspire them is a distant vista of the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. The Cherokee called those misty, ancient peaks "Land of a Thousand Smokes" because it appeared that many smoky ...