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Category: Tennessee

Eerie Night In A Haunted House

This was the place, so legend has it, where sheets gently floated from the beds of no longer sleeping travelers.

October 22, 2018 Fishing / Great Smoky Mountains / Hunting / Tennessee

Stalking game with his slingshot

Jim Gasque, NC sportsman, proved that the ordinary slingshot, when properly made and used, can be an adult weapon of deadly accuracy.

October 17, 2018 Halloween / Tennessee / Witches & Wizards

He’d been known to escape houses through the keyhole

The defendant had been seen to escape out of houses through the door key holes, and furthermore operated on the minds of others from a 10-15 mile distance.

Covered bridge over White Oak River near Rugby TN 1910s

October 5, 2018 Tennessee / Welsh immigration

Meeting princes at the gate of Rugby, in the New World

Rugby Colony was founded by English author/social reformer Thomas Hughes in the eastern TN mountains in 1880, but was in trouble by the 1890s.

hodgson's first log house in new market tn

September 24, 2018 Childrens literature / Tennessee

For no reason he knew of he was coming alive with the garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett left an indelible mark on children’s literature, providing a path to the secret garden in all of us.

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