by design | Oct 22, 2013 | Knox County, The Daily Focus
Everyone invited to this free, family-oriented event On Saturday, Oct. 26, the University of Tennessee Arboretum Society will present the annual Owl Prowl at the UT Arboretum. The free family event will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the arboretum’s program shelter....
by Mark Nagi | Oct 21, 2013 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Back in March, Tennessee football coach Butch Jones was the Grand Marshal for the Food City 500 Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway. He was impressed with what he saw at the track that some like to call “The Last Great Colosseum.” “The magnitude...
by design | Oct 21, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson A liberal friend of mine recently asked me if I’ve gone soft. Perhaps he was surprised by my Travel Trilogy published in September. I don’t go out of my way to pick a fight, but I learned long ago on the school yard that a bully cannot be...
by design | Oct 21, 2013 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore You know, time has a way of moving quickly and catching your unaware of passing years. It seems just yesterday I was young, just married and embarking on with my new life and my mate. Yet, in a way, it seems like eons ago, and I wonder where all the...
by Mike Steely | Oct 21, 2013 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely John Murrell died a young man but in his brief lifetime he had ventured across Tennessee and Kentucky and raised a lot of fear, murdered a few folks, stolen from many others, and left his stamp on our history and legends. Murrell was born about 1806,...
