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Ken Attenhofer's Photos;
Page Two

Brownie (right) and "the cook."

Neither Ken nor I can remember the cook's name.  If you have any idea who he is, please send an email with his identity and tell my how you know him.

According to Ken, this is "Crew -- 1964-65"

From LEFT to RIGHT, front row: 

• Tall guy next to the window is Jim, Brownie's cousin from NY;
• Ken Attenhofer (plaid shirt, thumbs hooked in jeans pockets);
• Plaid shirt, light trousers, may be Earl Trentham from Wear's Valley;
• Glenn Brown (young boy in white shirt, son of Herrick and Myrtle Brown);
• Unidentified (plaid shirt);
• Unidentified (light shirt, dark trousers, wearing glasses);
• Back row, holding child is Myrtle Brown, child is her youngest, Barbara;
• Unidentified lady in the center was a local lady from Gatlinburg area who lived in single cook's cabin next to kitchen and cooked.

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Drying dishes after supper.

L to R:

• Joe Schlatter
• Viola Matthews (her husband Amos brought the pack horses up and down LeConte; she lived in the small cook's cabin next to the kitchen and cooked for us and the guests);
• Ken Attenhofer.

Note in this photo of the kitchen: propane-powered refrigerator; Brownie's pith helmet hanging on hook in top left corner of photo; dead center of the photo is the industrial, hand-operated can opener.

Avery Trentham and Hugh McCarter

During my first summer at LeConte Lodge, the crew consisted of:  Viola Matthews, cook (wife of Amos Matthews, the pack man); Charles and Avery Trentham from Wears Valley; Hugh McCarter from Gatlinburg; and I -- Joe Schlatter, the "college boy" from Knoxville, TN.

Hugh was a self-taught guitarist who owned not much more than a few clothes, two pair of shoes, an old 1952 Chevrolet, and a Gibson Hummingbird guitar.  We crew members had three days a month off during which we would hike down the mountain.  On his days off, Hugh played guitar and sang at a local "mlountain music show" near Gatlinburg.