All in a Day's Work. The snowstorm of December 7, 2017 yielded several shots for Stephens, not least of which is this one of North Main Street in downtown Waynesville, North Carolina, where he captured "as Christmas-card ready a scene as I've ever shot." Purchase Knob. Of it, Stephens writes: "Purchase Knob is the newest section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a 535-acre tract of land donated to the National Park Service by Kathryn McNeil and Voit Gilmore. The main attraction here is an open field, high on a slope as it ascends to the Appalachian Highlands Science Center. Near 360-degree views abound, with landmarks like Mount Pisgah and Mount Sterling visible on clear MAY/JUNE 2020 55