There were not one but two stories on the Tennessean web site this morning that related to the Cumberland Mountains (a/k/a Cumberland Plateau) area where Mountain T.O.P. operates:

• Bowater, a major paper manufacturer, plans to sell off some of its timberland holdings in the region, which could drastically change Grundy and Van Buren counties, the homes of Mountain T.O.P.’s two owned camp facilities.
• The documentary about the students of Whitwell Middle School and their project to collect six million paper clips as a Holocaust memorial was shown at a Jewish film festival in Nashville. I worked with teens from Whitwell in the late 1990s and early 2000s teaching creative writing in Mountain T.O.P.’s “Summer Plus” program; I don’t know if I worked with any of the specific teens involved in this project but it seems likely.
  Actually, in regards to this item I will have to correct myself and say that Mountain T.O.P. isn’t working in Marion County at the present time, since we’re no longer working out of Camp Glancy. But I still associate the area with Mountain T.O.P.