Capitol Tour Tag-Alongs
Ray and I hugged our sweet Henry and his folks yesterday morning and headed west for the Midwest Parent Educators Conference in Kansas City. The clouds were so ominous that we got out our travel weather radio to see if we…
Ray and I hugged our sweet Henry and his folks yesterday morning and headed west for the Midwest Parent Educators Conference in Kansas City. The clouds were so ominous that we got out our travel weather radio to see if we…
In 1993 our family moved to the Upper Cumberland area of Tennessee. We began hearing good things about Tommy Burks, who served as state senator from our district. Senator Burk’s wife was Charlotte. At our congregation, we got to know…
When Dr. Ganus thinks ahead about another trip down the Mississippi River, he knows that the time to start thinking about it is now. We know that’s a good idea for nonagenarians, but sometimes it’s hard to remember that it…
Mrs. Frances Landrum taught me English in the seventh and eighth grades. She was short, pleasingly plump (as we used to say), and gray-headed. Photos of Laura Ingalls Wilder taken after she began writing the Little House books remind me…
My two grandmothers both grew up in rural Robertson County, Tennessee. Though their girlhoods had many things in common, their adulthoods seemed as different as night and day in my young mind. Mama Sue’s bedroom carpet was pink. Her bathroom tile was…
The Cumberland River meanders through our county here in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Since we live along one of its tributaries, we can see a bit of bottom land out our front window, but surrounding us on every…