Bob Plott
Winner of the prestigious North Carolina Long Leaf Pine Award
Bob Plott has been chosen as a Historical Scholar by The North Carolina Humanities Council - Road Scholar Program.
The North Carolina Humanities Council has been offering speakers, free of charge, to public audiences since 1990. All presentations are grounded in the humanities.
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- PROGRAM 1 - PLOTT HOUNDS....HISTORY AND LORE: AN OVERVIEW
Bob is usually accompanied by either one of his own Plott dogs or Nannie Plott, a Plott hound with her own Blog and Facebook page.
The Plott bear hound is now recognized as one of the premier big game hunting dogs in America, and is unique among hunting dog breeds because it descends from Germanic stock rather than the traditional English foxhound. The breed’s story began when its original breeder, Johannes Plott, and his brother Enoch left Germany in 1750 with their prized hunting dogs. This trip across the Atlantic began the two-hundred year journey that would culminate in the North Carolina mountains with the development of what is now arguably the world’s finest breed of hunting dog. This fascinating story of the Plott family and the Plott hound is a classic American tale of adventurers and underdogs – a story that Bob Plott, the great-great-great-grandson of Johannes Plott is uniquely qualified to tell.
- PROGRAM 2 - A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUNTING IN THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
Join Bob as he shares stories of legendary hunters of the past starting with the ancient Cherokee to the modern day nimrods of today.
- Hunting Legends of the Great Smoky Mountains -1700 - 1840
- Hunting Legends of the Great Smoky Mountains -1841 - 1910
- Hunting Legends of the Great Smoky Mountains -1910 - Today
These three programs can be conducted individually or as a two or three part package. Each program includes a hunting history of the respective era, as well as many colorful stories of legendary figures, game animals and dogs of that era. Very informative, but fast paced, filled with exciting and humorous actual stories and a few tall tales.
- PROGRAM 3 - A HISTORY OF HUNTING DOGS IN THE 18th & 19th CENTURIES
- PROGRAM 4 - SMOKY MOUNTAIN HISTORY SERIES
A series of individual programs—you pick and choose— each lasting about 45 minutes. The series includes:
- The Grant Expedition of 1761
- Mark Cathey: King of the Smoky Mountain Sportsmen
- The Legend of Quill Rose
- Doublehead, Bob Benge and Dragging Canoe: Cherokee Warriors
- Tennessee Ridgerunners: Black Bill Walker and Friends
- The Story of Little George Plott, Hero of WWII
- The Civil War in WNC
- The Last Frontier: Graham County
- The Story of Robert Henry Plott, last Confederate Prisoner of the Civil War
- The Sacred Legacy of Horace Kephart
- Deep Creek and Hazel Creek: A Sportsmen's Paradise
- SERIES PROGRAM 5 - PRIMITIVE SURVIVAL SKILLS
Bob and his friend Charles Brown have worked as living history volunteers at historical sites across the southeast and both are accomplished woodsmen and primitive hunters. Brown is one of the foremost bark and brain tanning experts in the United States and he is a world renowned craftsman of 18th century hunting accoutrements – knives, powder horns, hunting bags, etc. Join them as they teach you 18th century fire-making, hide-tanning, cooking, and salt making skills. (If all skills are included, these programs can last up to four hours.)
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