Our 38th President

By Ralphine Major It was a rare opportunity.  A few years after the 38th president of the United States left office, his presidential limousine was put on display at what was then the TVA&I Fair in Knoxville.  At the time, it was a state-of-the-art vehicle.  With...

Porch Light

  By Joe Rector Today’s youth have missed out on so many good things that we old people enjoyed. Don’t tell me how much better life is now because I realize how fortunate we are to have all the technology that supposedly makes things easier. How could we ever...

Vols are Omaha Bound

  By Mark Nagi 200 games. That’s how long it took Tony Vitello to build Tennessee baseball from one of the worst teams in the conference to one of the best in the nation. “I just wanted to get this thing where people were proud of it,” said Vitello, now in his...

‘Do it for me’

By Tom Mattingly Traveling to various venues with the Tennessee Volunteers is very enjoyable, and there are some intriguing stories, many of which can be told in the pages of a family newspaper. Lindsey Nelson has reported that, while in California for the 1940 Rose...