I’ll warn you at the outset that I am a recovering Tennessee football fanatic. I haven’t burned by Vols gear, and don’t intend to. You …
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The descendants of Lewis Alexander Garrett (1868-1932) — which include Maude A. Garrett, Warren Omar Garrett, Elza Oral Garrett, Henry Clayton Garrett, Serina Bell Garrett, …
Life is good if you’re Phillip Fulmer. I mean, it’s not $900,000-per-year good. But it’s $450,000-per-year good. And that’s pretty good when you’re sitting around …
Brenda Lawson was scared. It was late in the night of May 29, 1970. She and her husband, Robert, were sitting in their 1965 Pontiac …
Across the southeastern United States in the winter of 1872, newspapers gave accounts of a brutal murder in the Cumberland Mountains of East Tennessee, with …
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the …
In modern America, Santa Claus is the most central figure for Christmas — moreso, even, than the very man whose birth Christmas celebrates, Jesus Christ. …
It was unusually cold, even for late December in those days — and late Decembers in Tennessee were colder back then than late Decembers in …
On December 21, a rare phenomenon will occur: if weather conditions cooperate, a “Christmas star” will be visible in the night sky. It won’t really …
Did you ever wonder how and why Baptists came to be the predominant religion in the Appalachians (in general) and the Cumberland Plateau (in particular)? …
The older I get, the more of a fan I become of old cemeteries. Not the well-kept and often-visited cemeteries so much as the forgotten …
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” Well over 100 years since John Muir’s death, that famous quote by the great American conservationist still …
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