My last trip to Beersheba Springs was in 1990. I was asked to lead an activity at the Tennessee Environmental Education Association’s annual conference. I stayed at an old hotel that has since undergone major renovations. Since that visit, I have traveled to nearby places, including South Cumberland State Park, Savage Gulf Natural Area (now a state park in its own right), and the iconic Fall Creek Falls State Park. I do not even recall passing through Beersheba Springs in all these years.
Beersheba Springs is on the Cumberland Plateau. To prepare for the visit there, I have been rereading portions of The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell. He sought to discover the nature of the forest through the lens of a 1-meter-wide circular observation area in the old-growth forest owned by the University of the South. I wrote an article about Haskell's writings after interviewing him. It appeared in the Hellbender Press.https://hellbenderpress.org/news/the-sounds-of-science
Beersheba Springs is on the Cumberland Plateau. To prepare for the visit there, I have been rereading portions of The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell. He sought to discover the nature of the forest through the lens of a 1-meter-wide circular observation area in the old-growth forest owned by the University of the South. I wrote an article about Haskell's writings after interviewing him. It appeared in the Hellbender Press.https://hellbenderpress.org/news/the-sounds-of-science