Despite the fact that families moved out of Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the mid-1900’s, when you walk into the Cades Cove Methodist Church today you can sense that the congregation just left the church after Sunday services. The church itself, and the graves in the graveyard, are tidy and well-maintained. The day I visited, there were flowers on the pulpit, a Bible on the lectern and hymnals on the piano. In this photograph, I tried to capture the peaceful feeling that a Sunday service has just ended, and the parishioners have left the church.

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