“Whoa! Hold on, men! I think we need to cut ourselves loose. The water is too high and the shoals too rough. We will need to proceed to New Orleans …
Rosamond Clark Christenbery: ‘The Clipping Lady’
Rosamond Clark was born into a family of 13 children in Paris (Henry County), Tenn., on Feb. 2, 1891. After graduating from grade and high school, she entered Union University …
Arnold Jones recalls D-Day, 75 years later
Halls guy Arnold Jones didn’t overthink it. He and some 160,000 of his fellow soldiers just stormed the beaches of Normandy to liberate France and chase some Germans back to …
Goat Man leaves the scent of legend
It would usually happen in the late summer or early fall. The warm weather meant that the children of East Tennessee were usually still barefoot and school had not begun.
Normally, …
‘Doing things she oughten’ – the long fall of Hazel Davidson
It was 1978, and Hazel Davidson wasn’t feeling so good. She worked from home, so to speak, and was being hounded by the cops, whose increasingly frequent raids had gotten her …
Giovanni honored by hometown, ‘Knoxville, Tennessee’
Mayor Madeline Rogero called it “the annotated version” when poet Nikki Giovanni interrupted her own reading of “Knoxville, Tennessee” to insert comments and even lead the crowd in singing “Leaning …
Poet Nikki Giovanni to get city honor
Knoxville native Nikki Giovanni will be honored at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 23, when Mayor Madeline Rogero and other city officials unveil a historic marker near the entrance to the …
Entrepreneur by 22, Karnes showed taste, good timing
J. Howard Karnes was born on Sept. 4, 1859. He was the first of seven children of Civil War veteran John M. and Sarah (Gammon) Karnes. “Uncle Jack,” as John …