June 9, 2013 American Museum of Science and Energy

 After driving through Great Smoky Mountains National Park, we spent last night in Pigeon Forge.  Pigeon Forge is the slightly upscale tourist town on the Tennessee side of the park while Cherokee is the older, campy tourist town at the North Carolina entrance to the Park.

We took a scenic route through the mountains northwest to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, "The Secret City."  In front of the American Museum of Science and Energy was a sculpture from the World Trade Center metal fragments. 

The museum documented how the city of Oak Ridge was built secretly during World War II for the Manhattan Project.  It produced the nuclear material for the bombs being assembled in Los Alamos, New Mexico.