by Ray Hill | Oct 8, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Colonel Luke Lea, away in Europe during the First World War, had never gotten along with John Knight Shields when they were colleagues in the United States Senate. Lea’s newspaper, the Nashville Tennessean sided with Shields’ opponent, Governor Tom Rye in...
by Mike Steely | Oct 2, 2017 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely Want a visit to the past? Interested in ghost towns or almost ghost towns? Probably no place in our region is more typical of small, 1880s era towns than Bulls Gap in southern Hawkins County. Located between Morristown and Greeneville the little town...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Oct 2, 2017 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidah McKeehan We’ve all seen the movie where a suspect is being questioned about their criminal history and they are reminded of how they were involved in an armed robbery many years ago. The suspect always responds by saying that he was driving a car and his...
by design | Oct 2, 2017 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore I am sure many of my readers have read these thoughts before but I think they bear repeating. “One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed...
by Joe Rector | Oct 2, 2017 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector In Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience,” he says that he meets the U.S. government once a year in the form of the tax collector. He refused to pay those taxes as a means of protesting the Mexican War, which he said enlarged the Southern lands that...
by Ralphine Major | Oct 2, 2017 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major A mere mention of the place can bring to mind childhood memories and special times, though there was a time when its popularity seemed to fade. The architecture of ranch-style homes and others nearly eliminated the front porch as many of us remember...
