by design | Sep 28, 2020 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. My wife has told me more than once “No more books,” because my offices and our homes have always been filled with books. But I love to read. She has told me more than once that I am the “most boring person” with whom to take a vacation. She is...
by design | Sep 21, 2020 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. A little over 43 years ago, I met a young and beautiful woman at Regas Restaurant who a few months later became my wife, Lynn. Several of the most important events in my life took place at that great restaurant. Lynn was one of the best...
by design | Sep 14, 2020 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was in my office in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington when Bert Robinson, a member of my staff from Athens, opened the door and told me to turn on the television because a plane had just...
by design | Sep 8, 2020 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. During the 1957-58 flu season, I was in the fifth grade at Chillhowee School in East Knoxville, there was a worldwide pandemic then that originated in China called the Asian flu. Both the US and world populations were only a little over 60% of...
by design | Aug 30, 2020 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Everything looks easy from a distance My friend, Ray Hill, who writes a great political history column for this newspaper, told me several years ago that I won the lottery with my parents. I had never thought of it in that...
