WBIR’s The Heartland Series with Bill Landry: Volume 1

The Heartland Series is your personal journey through all the wonder that makes the Smoky Mountains unique. Featuring spectacular videography from all seasons, The Heartland Series also captures the human spirit that resides here. You will meet the descendants of the earliest pioneers; the people who lived secluded for years and developed an originality apparent today. It’s a journey you will want to take again and again.

00:00 Intro
00:20 Episode 1: Prologue
04:06 Episode 2: Ancestral Mountains
07:51 Episode 3: The Coves
11:38 Episode 4: Refuge
15:14 Episode 5: Megafauna
18:27 Episode 6: Early Man
22:09 Episode 7: Cherokee Dawn
25:25 Episode 8: Cherokee Zenith
28:44 Episode 9: The Flower Hunter
32:04 Episode 10: An American Genius
35:22 Episode 11: The Crown Jewels
38:48 Episode 12: Lucinda
42:16 Episode 13: Comeback
45:39 Episode 14: School Days
49:01 Episode 15: Alien
52:30 Episode 16: Fishin'
55:54 Episode 17: Prophet of the Long Road
59:18 Episode 18: Homecoming
01:02:40 Episode 19: Pi Beta Phi School
01:06:03 Episode 20: Black Bears
01:09:19 Episode 21: Peace of Work
01:12:38 Episode 22: First Park Botanist
01:16:00 Episode 23: Walk in the Woods
01:19:19 Episode 24: A.D.'s Bear Stories
01:22:40 Episode 25: Family Christmas