by Ray Hill | Apr 4, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Carroll Reece had first been elected to Congress to represent Tennessee’s First District in 1920 when he had defeated incumbent congressman Sam R. Sells in the Republican primary. 1920 had been a banner year for Republicans in Tennessee with the GOP...
by Jim Ferguson | Mar 29, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
Anything you dream is fiction. Anything you accomplish is science. The whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. Ray Bradberry By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’m always on the lookout for a story, especially an essay topic. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about...
by Joe Rector | Mar 29, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Can you feel that new excitement? Are you being flooded with a new energy that’s lain dormant for many months? Is a new pep in your step noticeable to everyone? If you’re like me, all of these things are true because Daylight Savings Time arrived this...
by Ralphine Major | Mar 29, 2021 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major Those words spoken by Dwight Kessel sparked a search through my years of keepsakes. I found the pageant booklet, Knoxville’s Jr. Miss Pageant 1971; a photo of me in the evening gown my mother had made; and the talent picture of me onstage at the...
by John Duncan | Mar 29, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. My wife has several times said in a critical way that I just don’t like change. I guess she is right, because I have been a member of Holston Hills County Club since I was nine, of Eastminster Presbyterian Church since I was 12, and I still get...
by Tom Mattingly | Mar 29, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly “It’s not how many years a man has lived. It’s how many people are glad that he did.” That’s the Bob Campbell storyline when you attempted to sum up a life that spanned 72 years and 19 days, one that ended on Nov. 18, 2017. It was a daunting task, but...
