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December to Remember, Day 3: Appalachian Christmas at Spring Haven Mansion

On Saturday, December 3, I was invited to join a group of about 30 friends at Hendersonville's gorgeous Spring Haven Mansion for a unique...
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Re-enacting in Tennessee

  • re-enacting
  • November 8, 2011
Just a short note, I have been away from writing for too long and have finally been able to get back to it. I will be writing a lot more from now...
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Lamar! says he's running for the U.S. Senate again in 2014

Tennessee's Senior U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Maryville), donated his pre-Senate papers to Vanderbilt University, and the school has...
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Greater history and civics education needed in Tennessee schools

Amid all of the discussion taking place about current and possible future education reform in Tennessee, a critical and needed improvement to our...
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June 8th, 1861

On this day 150 years ago, Tennessee voted to secede from the Union, with the State as a whole rolling the dice-and most people on both sides here...
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Engage your children in history! SMOKE: The Ballad of the Night Riders

When you live in an area long enough, the towns’ stories and folklore begin to become part of you. It engulfs you. It overtakes you a little...
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The unsettled question

Tuesday's column on the anniversary of the fall of Fort Sumter and the beginning of the War Between the States has generated a discussion...
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April 12th, 1861...

It so happened that 150 years ago today, it was a Friday morning-Friday, April 12th, 1861.What happened that day would change our country forever....
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St. Patrick's Day thoughts in East Tennessee

It is often said that today is a day when most all of us are Irish, at least for the day, whether one happens to be of Irish extraction or not. For...
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The Mound Builders of Tennessee

The mound building cultures of prehistoric North America existed from about 3000 BCE and may have lasted into the 16th century, when the first...
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