Carson BrewerCarson Brewer was a reporter and columnist for more than forty years. His columns on conservation issues and on the Great Smoky Mountains earned him the E. J. Meeman Conservation Award (twice) from the Scripps-Howard Foundation, the Golden Press Cardaward from the Society of Professional Journalists (which also named a scholarship in his honor in 1984), and the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the Knoxville Writers Guild. He died on January 15, 2003. Read More Read Less