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RIGHT: Lost Sea, in Sweetwater, Tennessee,
is America's largest underground lake.
BELOW: Photinus carolinus, a synchronous
flashing firefly, can be seen in the Elkmont
area of the Tennessee Smokies.
TENNESSEE
Animal - Are they blinking love-crazy? Every
year in May and June the firefly light
show lights up the Elkmont area of the
Great Smoky Mountains with the insects'
synchronized mating ritual. The Photinus
carolinus species is one of the world's few
to flash in unison, the better to draw in
females. Human attendees at the stunning
natural event have been limited, but
Knoxville offers an alternative: More than
12,000 lights in Market Square will flash
in synchrony, mimicking the fireflies
from sunset to sunrise through June.
Vegetable - Do Tennesseans really
fight with these? People in Tennessee love
TN DEPARTMENT OF TOURIST DEVELOPMENT
their state vegetable stewed, grilled, fresh
and flying through the air at the annual
Grainger County Tomato Festival tomato
wars. Each year in late July, vendors sell tomatoes,
artists paint tomatoes on cheeks,
and folks of all ages pelt each other with
too-ripe tomatoes until there's only one
standing at the infamous tomato battles.
Mineral - Is it the largest U.S. lake under
the ground? Deep inside a mountain
near Sweetwater lies the Lost Sea, America's
largest underground lake and the
largest natural lake in the southern mountains.
The exact magnitude of Lost Sea is
still a mystery. Beneath the 4.5-acre pond,
divers mapped another 9 acres of waterfilled
rooms. Yet the end of the lake has
not yet been reached. The Lost Sea cave is
open for tours and glass-bottom boat rides
year-round.
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