The surprising museum in Hunstville, TN

  A Day Way By Mike Steely Most Tennesseans know that Huntsville is the seat of Scott County and has a historic and spooky jailhouse and the Howard Baker family home. But the little town, just about an hour northwest of Knoxville, has something that gets little...

Unusual places to visit

  A Day Away By Mike Steely I’ve been thinking recently of the many places my wife and I have visited that have left a memory. I had a position for several years that required me to travel to various southern states and, on those trips, my wife accompanied me. We...

Taking a stroll downtown

More Than A Day Way By Mike Steely   When was the last time you took a walk downtown? If you’re like me, you probably visit a few places downtown, or if you’re new to the area, you may not know all the interesting and historic places there are in our busy and...

Sharing some childhood tales

  More Than A Day Away By Mike Steely Until I was six years old, my mother, sister, brother and I lived with my grandmother in her small country house up a country dirt road near other family members. My grandmother was a small woman with strong control of our...

Fort Southwest Point becoming a state park

  A Day Away By Mike Steely There’s an online survey asking for public input on the transition of Kingston’s Fort Southwest Point to a state park. The historic fort was built before statehood and is the only pre-Civil War fort to be reconstructed on its original...