I have often found it a bit off-putting for people to say “Happy Memorial Day.” Not to throw a wet blanket on anybody’s good time, but the day is not …
Postscript to the Battle of Turkey Creek
In 1863, Nancy Serena Galbraith was a 44-year-old widow living on her 4,000-acre farm in the Virtue community. Life was undoubtedly hard for her as she struggled to raise eight …
Living in the ‘zone’
Folks will come to Knoxville on Saturday to march and pray in support of their vision of America. Tim Burchett has “disinvited” neo-Nazis and members of the KKK, and I …
Petitioning against history
What is it about a century-old block of granite that offends you?
A group in Knoxville has petitioned to have a Confederate monument in Fort Sanders removed.
This is not some tribute …