I met Dana Reed when I moved to Jonesborough, Tennessee in 2003. “Coach,” as they called him, since he had been a coach for more than a generation of young people in the schools of Washington County, Tennessee, was grinning … Continue reading
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”–Hebrews 10: 25, (King James Bible) I am not sure who first thought … Continue reading
I grew up next to Kingsport, Tennessee. Kingsport has had several lives, the most recent being a period of industrialization, growth, expansion, and relative decline. This period was much touted at the beginning as the town became known through the … Continue reading
I am taken with the stories of the settlement of my home region in the early history of the United States. The mountains became a home of hope for many who were getting away from something worse somewhere else. Their … Continue reading
Samuel Patton was born in 1797 in the Lancaster District of South Carolina. As a young man he was part of a family that was religious, but not enthused about it. One of his grandmothers was known to say, … Continue reading
I don’t know when I first became aware that little blobs of pink on the bottom of the church chairs was actually chewing gum. But I am sure I saw some the night Pastor Steve came to preach. The minister … Continue reading
Up in a narrow hollow in East Tennessee there is a little white, country church called “Compromise.” It is on Route 70 between Rogersville and Kyle’s Ford. It’s been there quite a long time. It looks pretty serene, with a … Continue reading
