Gail Guy News Today

Gail Guy, owner of Rocky Branch Longears - Miniature Donkey Breeders, fell in love with miniature donkeys at 9 years old when she went to a live Nativity scene

The holiday lore gave her an idea -- what if she could have a donkey or better yet lots of donkeys?

The Great Smoky Mountains have vanished, buried beneath billows of clouds that send water cascading off the storefront awnings of Waynesville. To watch the early-spring deluge wash over the mountain town, an old lovesick tune by Ronnie Milsap, who grew up an hour west in Robbinsville, might earworm its way in. “Smoky Mountain rain keeps on falling …” But the rain fails to dampen the welcoming air of Waynesville, a town of about 10,300 people that serves as the seat of Haywood Cou...