Cades Cove

Green, Missy Tipton: - Missy Tipton Green is a Blount County native and enjoys researching history and hiking to the many sites where Cades Cove homes once stood. She is a charter member of Cades Cove Preservation Association. Her first book, Precious Memories, is an account of childhood in Cades Cove. Paulette Ledbetter is also a Blount County native who spends much of her time researching and hiking. She is past treasurer of the Cades Cove Preservation Association. Green and Ledbetter were codirectors of the Cades Cove/Thompson Brown Museum in Maryville, and together they authored From Mineral Springs to Bed Springs: a History of Hotels and Inns in the Foothills of the Smokies.