Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Into the Smokies past Thomas Wolfe's boarding house, the Biltmore's gilded ambition, and the mill town of Canton, which smelled like a paycheck. It ends in Cherokee country, where Walker Calhoun kept the songs and dances alive through everything.
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.