plein air : At the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, Lavore, TN

This Historic site, The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, in Lavore, TN, is on a river that was dammed up in the 1960s, in order for the Tennesee Valley Authority to build a nucear power plant. The construction resulted in flooding lands where members of the Cherokee Nation had been living.

Naming the site after a local Native American Indian was considered a small political token to the Cherokee in compensation for the dam-flooding and destruction of their historic sites that TVA required to control flooding on the Tennessee River.

 At the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, Lavore, TN ~ plein air watercolor (c) 2011 / Will Brady

In a sense, the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum is also a monument to the "Second Trail of Tears" for the Cherokee Nation.

Acrylic painting ~ "Fully Involved"

 "Fully Involved"

acrylic on canvas in frame.

Doing this was particularly intriguing - taking on a triple challenge of depicting water, fire and a night scene in the same piece.

(c) 2021 / Will Brady - in private collection