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The places where we live and work are more than job locations. This blog explores the regions connected to Orange Hospitality Group through three lenses: Layers of Place, The Living Landscape, and Global Conversation. Our goal is to share source-backed stories that help readers, especially U.S. and international students, understand these places and see work and travel as part of a bigger story.

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Layers of Place | February 2, 2026

Before the Park: The Deep Human Timeline of the Smokies

Long before it became America’s most-visited national park, the Smokies were a lived-in landscape—shaped by Indigenous homelands, mountain communities, logging railroads, and a conservation movement powered by everyday people...