Originally Published in May, 2010 – Still loving the townhouse and city living I grew up in Maryville, TN, always living within easy walking or…
Prisoners of our Cars
Posted in Family Stories, Freedom, Personal Stuff, and Uncategorized
Category: Family Stories
The WPA and Granny’s Little Brown Shack
Posted in Family Stories, Government, Jobs, and Uncategorized
In my previous Permanent Fixes Blog I posted a couple of times during the financial crisis about this family relic, using it as an example…
Education in America (Well, Tennessee Anyway) – 100 Years Ago (May 12, 2010)
Posted in Education, Family Stories, Granddaddy's Stories, and History
I wrote a couple of days ago about some changes in education over the past fifty years, but I also have one first-hand account of…
Carrying the Mail (9/29/2010)
Posted in Family Stories
My maternal grandfather, Oscar Shelley, a rural mail carrier for 33 years, 1927 to 1960, wore out a new Chevrolet every two years on Route…
My paternal grandfather, Richard Hobart Williams, was a hard-working staunch conservative, a Hoover Republican who traveled around East Tennessee during the Great Depression trading horses…