Submitted photo. The Tallulah Falls Band members Kerry Cash, of Mount Airy, on Dobro (from left); Bryan Addis, of Mount Airy, upright bass; Ben Johnson, of Gum Log, banjo; and Stanley Starnes, of Lawrenceville, guitar play at the Tallulah Gorge State Park’s 30th anniversary. The band has been together for 22 years and plays on Saturday nights in the Tallulah Falls city park.
From a lofty perch on his mountainside porch overlooking Tallulah Gorge, James Turpin reminisced about his boyhood days in the 1940s and 1950s playing in the wild, vast gorge and swimming in its pools. Now, he can see park visitors walking cleared trails and bunching up at overlooks.