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Tennessee Guide for Tourist

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Tennessee Guide for Tourist SOUTH CUMBERLAND STATE RECREATION AREA 12,000 acres. Situated at the southern end of the Cumberland Plateau, in south-central Tennessee, this scenic state recreation area consists of seven separate tracts of land. Largest by far is the 11,400-acre Savage Gulf Natural Area. Savage Gulf includes virgin forest and three deep gulfs (gorges) overlooked by sandstone cliffs, with large streams and waterfalls. Throughout the recreation area are oak-hickory forests with pine and hemlock, plus mountain laurel. Deer, bobcat, and fox are among the wildlife. Activities: Hiking and backpacking are possible on 85 miles of trails in the area.

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Travel to Tennessee

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Travel to Tennessee CHEROKEE NATIONAL FOREST 625,000 acres. Made up of tracts both north and south of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, this National Forest stretches along the Tennessee-North Carolina border from Georgia to Virginia. The mountainous region includes rugged terrain. There are five major rivers, a number of lakes, and many streams and waterfalls. Forests consist of hardwoods as well as conifers, and there’s rhododendron and mountain laurel. Black bear, white-tailed deer, and wild boar are among the wildlife. Designated wilderness areas here include the 15,000-acre Citico Wilderness, the 5,000-acre Big Frog Wilderness, the 3,900-acre Bald River Gorge Wilderness,

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Tennessee Guide for Tourist

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Tennessee bibliography Ansley, Fran, and Susan Williams. Southern Women and Southern Borders on the Move: Tennessee Workers Explore the New International Division of Labor. In Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race, and Class in the South. Ed. Barbara Ellen Smith. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1999, 207-244. Cantu, Norma. Report on Latino Culture and Traditional Arts in Tennessee. Nashville: Tennessee Arts Commission, 1999. Ciscel, David, Barbara Ellen Smith, and Marcela Mendoza. Ghosts in the Global Machine: New Immigrants and the Redefinition of Work. Journal of Economic Issues 37, no. 2 (2003): 333-341. Corlew, Robert. Tennessee: A Short History. 2nd ed.

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Kentucky Travel Destinations

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The growing Latino presence in Kentucky influenced policing in the state’s two major cities. In 1994 Assistant Chief Fran Root began to take notice of the increased Latino presence in Lexington and of the growing communication problems that ensued when officers interacted with Spanish speakers. Root discovered that few cities anywhere were doing anything noteworthy to respond to larger Latino populations and that the police department would have to innovate. In 1999 the department began a partnership with the Kentucky Institute for International Studies (a consortium of university summer study programs) to send officers to Morelia, Mexico, for language and

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Kentucky Guide for Tourist

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Rodriguez, Glenn (c. 1950-). Rodriguez is the dean of Kentucky Campuses of McKendree College and a popular speaker on workplace diversity. He attained an MBA from Marshall University and a PhD in educational administration from the University of Louisville. As director of Papa John’s Pizza in Latin America, he opened more than 80 new restaurants in several nations. Starting as an adjunct instructor in 1999, he worked his way to the top of McKendree College’s Kentucky operations by 2005. The native of Puerto Rico also rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. Guzman, Lila. (1952-). The

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