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October 03, 2008 05:53 PM EDT -- Here are some photographs of my maternal grandfather, Jesse Orville Turner, and my younger brother, Roger. I brought the first two pictures to my dad's house a couple of year's ago to show . . . more
September 14, 2008 10:08 PM EDT -- Ray Roberts Hobbs, born in 1915 in Concord, Knox County, Tennessee was the son of Fred and Mabel (Woods) Hobbs. According to my friend the museum director, Ray loved being in school especially . . . more
September 23, 2008 05:33 PM EDT -- My Great Aunt Mae (my maternal Grandma Alice's sister) was a unique lady and one of my personal heroes. She chose not to marry, spinster being the preferred term at the time, and remain a career woman . . . more
June 13, 2008 03:38 PM EDT -- I was sitting here reading about Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.'s untimely death in 1944, and it got me to thinking, what would have happened had he lived? Since he was the oldest son of Joe Kennedy Sr. and . . . more
May 30, 2008 07:48 AM EDT -- I recently stumbled across an article in Time Magazine (be sure to watch the video) about an exhibit at the museum in Docklands, England chronicling the legacy of Jack the Ripper. This interesting but . . . more
June 10, 2008 06:09 PM EDT -- Recently, Peter Wimsey posted a postcard with a reference to Halley's Comet . It reminded me of my Grandma Alice's mention of the same. So here is another "chapter" of Grandma Alice, . . . more
April 26, 2008 07:50 PM EDT -- Recently, I read this lovely little history story by Trista (Break this bittersweet spell on me) W. about the Santa Fe train depot in Guthrie, OK. In the story, she mentions the ghost of Mrs. Fred Harvey. . . . more
Summer 1960
by Closed for the Season C.
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August 22, 2008 10:12 AM EDT -- My parents essentially had two families. My brother Rick and my sister Kristi are eight and nine years older than me respecctively. My brother Roger is four years younger than me. It's funny . . . more
May 17, 2008 04:50 PM EDT -- A visit to old Concord With the coming of the North Georgia and Tennessee Railroad in the mid 1850s, the face of transportation in East Tennessee was forever changed. Towns sprung up along the track . . . more
Tintype Men
by Closed for the Season C.
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November 07, 2008 09:24 PM EST -- Here's a look at another one of my many hobbies - photo restoration.   I have a set of tintypes that are in incredibly bad shape. I have been working on restoring them in digital . . . more
May 09, 2008 07:51 PM EDT -- I do a lot of genealogy work for other people. I love finding long lost family members and solving genealogical puzzles. This is some genealogy work I did for my own family and involves a little history . . . more
May 10, 2008 02:50 PM EDT -- This is a story written first person from Grandma Alice's point of view. Like with all my Grandma Alice stories, the whole is taken from bits and pieces of letters and notes I found that . . . more
September 06, 2008 07:00 PM EDT -- I wrote this story a few months ago for a local magazine, but with the recent death (in September) of Maudie Hopkins , it just seemed like a good time to bring it back out. I posted a link to the magazine . . . more
Juicy
by Closed for the Season C.
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March 15, 2008 02:11 PM EDT -- During my recent, but seemingly never ending, picture scanning project, I was given temporary custody of three old photos that were pertinent to another completely separate history project with which . . . more
August 12, 2008 04:47 PM EDT -- Their hearts were in the right place. Truly they were.   "Dahling," said Mrs. Bradley Martin, "The poor people of New York City are downtrodden and without work. Let's host . . . more
August 25, 2008 07:51 AM EDT -- Writer's note: Everyone around here is always asking about this property in Knox County, TN. It's just a few miles outside of Knoxville. The place is rumored to be haunted and it is all the caretakers . . . more
April 04, 2008 06:56 PM EDT -- This postcard is especially poignant to me. Although it was never mailed, I know approximately when it was purchased.  It was from my Aunt Doris "Feenie" Turner . . . more
June 15, 2008 08:12 PM EDT -- This isn't actually a childhood memory I have concerning my dad but rather a story my dad told me about the latter part of his own childhood. In 1950, my dad, Richard Klamm, graduated from Washington . . . more
August 06, 2008 07:36 AM EDT -- This is one of my favorite pictures in my vast collection of family history memorabilia that I inherited from my maternal grandmother, Alice Mack. It's a postcard really. It was never mailed and the . . . more
May 20, 2008 08:52 PM EDT -- I stopped by a local bookstore the other day to buy a copy of a magazine for a woman quoted in a monthly history column I write for a local publication. (If you want to read the story, click on the . . . more
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