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This 850-foot-long tunnel was once called the 8th wonder of the world |
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The irony of aging – or one of them – is that it takes time to acquire the wisdom to grasp the depth and breadth of our ignorance. I was a confident young man. Well-read and inquisitive and possessed a certain acumen for retaining and recalling that which I had learned. Some thought me cocky. It’s taken me 30 years of living to realize they were right.
It is only now that I realize that what I don’t know and never learned could stun a team of oxen. For instance? Within less than an hour and a half drive from my home – a natural marvel so spectacular that thrice-failed presidential candidate and Scopes Monkey Trial attorney William Jennings Bryan called it the 8th Wonder of the World. And yet, here I was decades of living in the mountains under my belt, ignorant of one of the truly awe-inspiring locations in all of Appalachia, if not the United States.
I’m talking about Natural Tunnel State Park, just across the Tennessee state line into Virginia..........
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