Tennessee Tinys

With the last few words, tears form in her eyes, and she starts to weep. Conor put his arm around her, "Grandma, it's going be okay. I don't know what you two are talking about, but I'm sure it will be all right." Just then a small voice is heard coming from the counter top just behind Grandpa's head. "Maybe I should explain things to him." Conor looks from Grandpa to Grandma, then back to Grandpa, wondering where the voice is coming from. Then, from behind the coffeepot, comes the smallest man Conor had ever seen.

Grandfather looks around at all the faces glowing in the dim light of the ambers from the fire and starts his tale. "It was long ago, and we, The People, lived far from here in a place called The Kingdom. We lived among and worked with Giants!" Steven shakes his head no and buries his face in his hands. "Not the Giant story!" All the children are cuddled up close to their parents and very frightened, all except Steven, a non-believer in these tales of Giants.

The O'Brien family owns a very large track of forested land located high on the Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee. These Tennessee hills and woods have inspired countless stories and even a legend or two. One of these legends is about a group of little people and of course a treasure. Some say, things might happen to those who dare to enter these woods. Could little people really exist? Many a story has been told of leprechauns, pixies and fairies, but have you heard of...the Tinys?