Kate Marshall Graphics

06/21/2025

KMG UPDATE: All DVD documentaries in SETS ARE ON SALE! These include the Cades Cove set (12 DVDs), the Voices of Cades Cove 9-part set, the Wildlife set (10 DVDs), and the Season of the Bear 6-volume collection. The annual Fourth of July sale will return in 2026. Due to a website glitch I am unable to add any extra discounts on single DVDs or other products. Our next annual site-wide sale will be November-December 2025 on the new website!

Fantastic DVDs (Season of the Bear, Voices of Cades Cove, Whitetails, Appalachian Wildflowers, Mountain Music, Private Moments in Nature), tapestries, carvings & books pertaining to the southern Appalachian Mountains and the southern states. Welcome!

05/14/2025

I was wondering how to describe our fantastic cultural heritage / historical documentary DVD mini-series, "Voices of Cades Cove." It is such a special project and spans over 200 years! There will be more than 9 in the set! These DVDs follow the Cades Cove Loop Road, as you would if you were to travel there, and stops at key points along the way, such as cabins, churches, cemeteries, roads, blacksmith shops, homesites, mills, and creeks, and also takes you with us traveling along the scenic Loop, with glimpses of expansive fields, trails, wildlife and wildflowers with a grand backdrop of the surrounding mountains - in all four seasons - in windy springs, rainy summers, colorful autumns, and snowy winters.

However, it is the people who once lived there and in the nearby communities that provide all the magic. You know the family names - Sparks, Oliver, Myers, Shields, Caughron, Hill, Cable, Coada, Gregory, Whitehead, McCauley, Tipton, LeQuire, Burchfield, Proctor, Shuler, Cooper, Ledbetter, Abbott, Boring, Davis, Headrick, Garland, and many, many more.

What sets these programs apart from so many others, are the former residents and their descendants telling their family stories and area history in their own words and their own voices. We are so proud of this huge endeavor. Each installment is 2 hours long.

The first nine have won several international film awards in multiple categories of: - Cultural Documentary - Biographical / Autobiographical Documentary - Travel and Tourism Documentary - and Historical Documentary, and are a prized collection to anyone interested in the history, culture and beauty of Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Filmed and researched and interviewed over a long period of years, and with the help of The National Archives, National Park Service, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library, Cades Cove Preservation Association, The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, The Battle of Resaca Civil War Re-enactors, Blount County Historical Association, Little River Railroad Museum, University of Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Shiloh National Military Park, Herders on The Balds, the Institute at Tremont, former residents and descendants, former teachers and their descendants, visitors and others who love the Cove, geologists, musicians, and many more, Kate Marshall Graphics is delighted to bring you this labor of love, again and again. Join us on this journey as we present the entire set (so far) of these DVDs of "Voices of Cades Cove" available now on sale on our website at www.CoveBear.com, singly or in a discounted complete collection! And it is not over yet! Stay tuned here for updates! More to come!

Fantastic DVDs (Season of the Bear, Voices of Cades Cove, Whitetails, Appalachian Wildflowers, Mountain Music, Private Moments in Nature), tapestries, carvings & books pertaining to the southern Appalachian Mountains and the southern states. Welcome!

04/19/2025

Developing a new website this spring - should be done in a couple of weeks or so. Voices 10 is rambling along. Working on multiple projects at once. Going hiking and filming next week. Never enough time! Checkout our current website at www.CoveBear.com

02/17/2025

2/17/2025 - If you like Great Smoky Mountains National Park, check out our page regarding the history and beauty of that part of the Southern Appalachian Mountains - Over 6,000 likes and nearly 7,000 followers so far - thank you for visiting that KMG page!
https://www.facebook.com/kmgcadescove/

Kate Marshall Graphics is filming and sharing wildlife and culture in the south - Join our journey!

02/09/2025

At the Kate Marshall Graphics studio, we are busy doing and planning and plotting our way through the next 3 years. Come along with us through these pages and through our DVD documentaries, as we continue in our tradition of researching, writing, filming and photographing the southern states. These efforts include marshes, beaches, fields, and prairies, as well as the cultural heritage and beauty of the southern Appalachian Mountains, such as the Great Smokies and the Blue Ridge.

January-March 2025 - Upgrades to technology in KMG studio, updates to projected documentary 5-year plan and written Statement of Qualifications, and review of all permits and U.S. Copyright Certifications. Continuing work on Voices of Cades Cove, Part 10: Coming Home, and Waterbirds.

Our Current Available DVD Documentaries:
WILDLIFE, NATURE, ENVIRONMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE, TRAVEL:
- Season of the Bear, Volume 1: American Black Bear
- Season of the Bear, Volume 2: Black Bear Cubs
- Season of the Bear, Volume 3: True Bear Stories
- Season of the Bear, Volume 4: Southern Bears
- Season of the Bear, Volume 5: Elusive and Imperiled
- Season of the Bear, Volume 6: North America's Bears
- The Story of Wildflowers of the Southern Appalachians
- The Whitetails of Cades Cove
- Private Moments in Nature
- Painted Wings & Feathered Things in the Smokies

CULTURAL HERITAGE, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL:
- Mountain Music with Carl & Betty Ross of Tymes Past
- Voices of Cades Cove, Part 1: A Sense of Place
- Voices of Cades Cove, Part 2: Amazing Grace
- Voices of Cades Cove, Part 3: 'Til We Meet Again
- Voices of Cades Cove, Part 4: Winds of Change
- Voices of Cades Cove, Part 5: A Full Life
- Voices of Cades Cove, Part 6: Water Works
- Voices of Cades Cove, Part 7: As Sweet As Honey
- Voices of Cades Cove, Part 8: Shattered Peace
- Voices of Cades Cove, Part 9: Of Another Place

Coming Soon (titles and dates tentative)
- Voices of Cades Cove, Part 10: Coming Home (planned for November 2025)
- Waterbirds of the Southern States (planned for November 2025)
- El Lagarto: American Alligator (planned for June 2026)
- The Armchair Observer’s Guide to Backyard Wildlife (planned for September 2026)
- Easy Southern Wildlife Viewing (planned for July 2027)
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Forest, Field and Flowing Water (planned for November 2027)

12/18/2024

Does a good story equal a good film? A director must know how to research it, cast it, script it, shoot it, score it, edit it, find the magic and the thread. And when inspiration hits, like tonight, there is nothing else in the universe! Joy to all! Love, Kate

12/02/2024

Thank you for ordering this holiday season. Our sale is now over but you can still receive a discount to bundle the "Voices of Cades Cove" DVD collection! -

I was wondering how to describe our fantastic DVD mini-series, "Voices of Cades Cove." It is such a special project and spans over 200 years! There will be 10 in the set, hoping to release the last one in 2025. These DVDs follow the Cades Cove Loop Road, as you would if you were to travel there, and stops at key points along the way, such as cabins, churches, cemeteries, roads, blacksmith shops, homesites, mills, and creeks, and also takes you with us traveling along the scenic Loop, with glimpses of expansive fields, trails, wildlife and wildflowers with a grand backdrop of the surrounding mountains - in all four seasons - in windy springs, rainy summers, colorful autumns, and snowy winters.

However, it is the people who once lived there and in the nearby communities that provide all the magic. You know the family names - Sparks, Oliver, Myers, Shields, Caughron, Hill, Cable, Coada, Gregory, Whitehead, McCauley, Tipton, LeQuire, Burchfield, Proctor, Shuler, Cooper, Ledbetter, Abbott, Boring, Davis, Headrick, Garland, and many, many more.

What sets these programs apart from so many others, are the former residents and their descendants telling their family stories and area history in their own words and their own voices. We are so proud of this huge endeavor. Each installment is 2 hours long. Part 10 will be 3 hours when complete.

The first nine have won several international film awards in multiple categories of: - Cultural Documentary - Biographical / Autobiographical Documentary - Travel and Tourism Documentary - and Historical Documentary, and are a prized collection to anyone interested in the history, culture and beauty of Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Filmed and researched and interviewed over a long period of years, and with the help of The National Archives, National Park Service, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library, Cades Cove Preservation Association, The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, The Battle of Resaca Civil War Re-enactors, Blount County Historical Association, Little River Railroad Museum, University of Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Shiloh National Military Park, Herders on The Balds, the Institute at Tremont, former residents and descendants, former teachers and their descendants, visitors and others who love the Cove, geologists, musicians, and many more, Kate Marshall Graphics is delighted to bring you this labor of love, again and again. Join us on this journey as we present the entire set (so far) or single DVDs of "Voices of Cades Cove" available now on our website at www.CoveBear.com!

https://covebear.com/products/dvd-set-of-all-9-voices-of-cades-cove-dvds-with-discount

Kate Marshall Graphics, Inc. is the sole copyright owner, creator, producer, manufacturer and distributor of these DVDs. Shopping for the holidays? Shop early and forget it - we are now offering holiday gift-wrapping services for this year, and can also hold your gift shipment until mid-late Novembe...

11/08/2024

Al and I began filming black bears in the mid-90's and our love of bears never waned. We now have 6 stand-alone documentary volumes on DVD which have garnered 18 international film awards!

OUR BEAR DVD COLLECTION IS NOW ON SALE! Check it out!
https://covebear.com/products/award-winning-dvds
The first four of these DVDs are all about American Black Bears, the fifth is Asia Bears (Giant Panda, Sloth Bears, Sun Bears), and the sixth is about the bears in North America (American Black Bears, Brown Bears (including Grizzly and Kodiak), and Polar Bears! Our bears are perfect for yourself or that bear lover in your family or circle of friends. See more detailed descriptions and awards of individual DVDs on this website. You may order them singly on this website or as a discounted set during our special sales. Here is a brief description of each:

1. "American Black Bear" is an overview of black bears, including diet, behavior, habitat, safety, rescue, and bears in the four seasons. Rare footage includes a stand-off between two adult bears in a walnut grove, with cubs in the tree, and rescuing several cubs in the snows of New Mexico. Other states represented are Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia. AWARD: 36th Annual WorldFest International Film Festival - Bronze Remi Award for Nature & Wildlife Documentary.

2. "Black Bear Cubs" is all about young American Black Bear cubs! Rare footage includes family life, with tiny little cubs in the winter den with mama bear, and little cubs in the woods with mama bear, and on up to sub-adult and adult bears. As in our first documentary, bear trees are highlighted here, what a sight! States represented are: Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia. AWARDS: Silver Remi Award for Ecology, Environment, Conservation Documentary, 38th Annual WorldFest International Film Festival - Bronze Telly for Nature & Wildlife Documentary, 27th Annual International Telly Awards - Gold Classic Telly Award for Videography, 30th Annual International Telly Awards.

3. "True Bear Stories" are great dramatic and comical tales told by the folks who met those black bears, from Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, California/Nevada and Alaska. Rare photographs include a bear being rescued in the sea, video and photos of rescuing a bear cub with his head stuck in a jar, a mama bear trying to get her cub untangled from a fishing net, and more. States represented are: Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Alaska, California/Nevada, and Florida. AWARDS: 44th Annual WorldFest International Film Festival - Gold Remi Award for Nature & Wildlife Documentary - Silver Remi Award for Ecology-Environment-Conservation Documentary- Bronze Remi Award for Children's Documentary.

4. "Southern Bears" is all about black bears in 9 states from Arkansas to North Carolina, their habitat, challenges, diet, history and research. 3+ hours on 3 discs all with fantastic footage of wild bears. Includes physical characteristics of several sub-species of American Black Bear, with video of white Kermodi American Black Bears in British Columbia, and Eastern American Black Bears as the predominant sub-species of bears shown. Several bear experts share their knowledge of black bears, from U.S. Geological Survey, National Park Service and 9 southern State wildlife Agencies. (Includes a special segment on bear and people management with great stories from Great Smoky Mountains National Park.) States represented are Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee. AWARDS: 47th Annual WorldFest International Film Festival: Platinum Remi Award for Public Service Documentary - Silver Remi Award for Nature & Wildlife Documentary - Silver Remi Award for Ecology, Environment, Conservation Documentary - Bronze Remi Award for Excellence in Documentary.

5. "Elusive and Imperiled" is about Asia bears, Giant Panda (China) - experts from Zoo Atlanta and U.S. Geological Survey - Sun Bear (Malaysia) - experts from the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre, and Sloth Bear (Sri Lanka) - from a renowned wildlife researcher - discuss these bears in trouble from habitat destruction and poaching. AWARDS: 52nd Annual WorldFest International Film Festival: Gold Remi Award for Public Service Documentary - Gold Remi Award for Nature & Wildlife Documentary - Silver Remi Award for Ecology, Environment, Conservation Documentary.

6. "North America's Bears" is all about our wonderful bears - Brown Bears, American Black Bears, and Polar Bears! 3 hours (on 3 discs) of fantastic videos, bear experts, and BEAUTIFUL BEARS! Video locations include: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Yellowstone National Park, The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Yosemite National Park, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Glacier National Park, Southern Hudson Bay Region, Southern Beaufort Sea / Arctic, Georgia, and remote Montana locations. Experts and film from National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Service, University of Tennessee, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, NOAA / U.S. Coast Guard, and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources - Trent University, and outstanding photos of bears from many other locations. All segments are fascinating, including the research of an American Black Bear in Louisiana that suddenly emerged out of a hole in a tree as the biologist climbed up, and closeup of a black bear we filmed flipping large rocks in a dry creek bed . . . and more. AWARDS: 55th Annual WorldFest International Film Festival: Gold Remi Award for Cinematography - Gold Remi Award for Nature & Wildlife Documentary - Gold Remi Award for Ecology, Environment, Conservation Documentary - Gold Remi Award for Excellence in Documentary.

All 6 Bear Documentaries: American Black Bear including Kermode White, Brown Bear Including Grizzly Bear & Kodiak Bear, Polar Bear, Giant Panda Bear, Sun Bear and Sloth Bear

01/21/2024

Rest in Peace, Foxy Marshall