Smokey the Bear gave a surprise visit to Magness Library on Thursday. He attended its Story Time dedicated to Fire Prevention Week. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency representative Lisa Goodmaster offered the children a storybook presentation on the real history of Smokey and why he has been educating the public about the dangers of forest fires for 64 years.One spring day in 1950 in the Capitan Mountains of New Mexico, an operator in one of the fire towers to the north spotted smoke and called the location into the nearest ranger station.