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Agriculture. Commerce. Transportation. Faith. Education. Self-sufficiency. Love Thy Neighbor. These traits all describe the small farming comm…
In a world marginalizing, if not outright punishing and forcefully minimizing, Christianity today, we just witnessed a state funeral of the lo…
Agriculture. Commerce. Transportation. Faith. Education. Self-sufficiency. Love Thy Neighbor. These traits all describe the small farming comm…
I am a retired pediatrician who practiced for more than 40 years in Loudon County.
As most readers are probably are aware, the number of COVID-19 cases and the percent positivity of COVID-19 tests in Loudon County over the la…
The News-Herald report about Dunbar School really “took me back.”
Competent. Capable. Professional. Organized. Visionary. Pleasant. A Friend to All.
It’s June and dairy is just about everywhere you look.
As I’ve told you several times recently, I just don’t feel good at all. It seems to get a little worse every day.
It seems there are so many things I get involved in that I really don’t have any control over at all, but I’m anxious to get back to my new en…
Kay and I just got in from our “farewell” visit to meet with the assisted living group at NHC in Farragut.
Here we go again with a big meal.
Back in the good old days of maybe 80 or 90 years ago, every mama handmade most all Christmas decorations and rejoiced in being able to do so.
I’ve told you before about the hoboes who used to camp out at the big culvert under the railroad just a couple of hundred feet east of Bob’s h…
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It seems this season of the year is turning out to be the busiest of all.
Claude McConkey had his delivery truck almost full of groceries to be delivered from Fred Weaver’s store when he would tell me to hop in.
It seems these days it takes a lot longer to remember the things that happened years ago.
Let’s see if you can remember anything about Halloween when we were kids.
There seems to be more and more new things to remind me of our old days.
I turned 90 years old Oct. 8.
Let me first tell you I guess I was providentially led to submit a couple of articles early not knowing I was to be in the emergency room at o…
Like I told you recently, Kay’s cousin, Maybelle, no longer raises hogs, so I asked you to let me know where I could get some firsthand inform…
I ain’t no cook and I can prove it by asking anyone in my family, but I try on some things.
Where in heaven’s name did I get a copy of our Lenoir City High School annual dated 1917?
We talk for at least 10 minutes before John Henry coughs several times to get our attention and starts our Sunday school lesson.
See if this jogs a memory or two for you as we go back about 72 years and talk about some of the “advertisers” in our old high school annual.
I’ve written about the carnivals and all the circuses coming into town and even had a few lines about the hobo “jungle” where the guys who hop…
I recently wrote that I’d get in touch with our fire department and see what information I could borrow to pass along.
