Tennessee Archives - Page 12 of 32

They watched a house float down the river with a rooster on the rooftop

It was March 23, 1929 and nothing in the path of rising Emory River was safe. The hills and mountain streams poured forth to swell the river.

Tennessean George W. Christians, chief officer of the fascist Crusader White Shirts, was an odd combination of comedian and sinister revolutionist.

Practically all Melungeons preferred a care-free existence with members of their own clan. For many generations they seldom married outsiders.

Here, there, in this community & that, some young man, some young woman is emerging into a new life where an infinite service can be rendered.

Highlander Folk School for years was the only place in the South where white and African-American adults could live and work together.

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