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Ken Attenhofer's Photos;
Page Five
More of the black-and-white photos made by the father of Ken
Attenhoffer -- Ken worked at LeConte Lodge in the mid- to late-1960's; he and I
were together one summer.

The New Lodge
The building centered in this photo is the "New Lodge."
Behind the New Lodge is the "Old Lodge" -- the building with the doorway facing
the camera. Each of these two lodges had a central room with a large
stone fireplace and two rooms off the central room with double beds, bunked, in
each bedroom. I don't recall the details of the names, however, the Old
Lodge was one of the original buildings while the New Lodge was built in the
1950's.

Old #6
This is one of six single cabins that, along with the Old and New Lodges,
provided guest accommodations. If you scroll back up to the photo of the
New Lodge, look in the trees behind and to the left of the New Lodge where you
will see a small cabin. There were six of these on a terrace behind the
lodges. Each cabin was a single room with a double bed, bunked. They were
numbered 1 through 6, this is Number 6, which burned in the late 1960's and was
replaced.

Inside #6
The single cabins and the bedrooms in the lodges were furnished alike:
(1) double beds, bunked, sleeping four -- two up, two down; (2) a small
wood-burning stove with a box of firewood next to the stove; (3) a table as
shown here with a kerosene lamp, wash basin, bucket to get water from the
spring, and four enameled drinking cups.
Note the curtains on the window. These were woven by hand on a loom
that was in the dining room. In the winter of 1962-63, Myrtle Brown took
courses at the Arrowmont School of Arts and
Crafts, Gatlinburg, where she learned to set up a loom and to weave.
In the summer of 1963 she taught me to weave, we set up the loom, and I wove
curtains for two of the cabins. These are my curtains. When the
Browns sold the Lodge, Myrtle Brown removed a set of the curtains I wove and
sent them to me; I still have them (August 2013).
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