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
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Originally Published in May, 2010 – Still loving the townhouse and city living I grew up in Maryville, TN, always living within easy walking or…
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…
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…
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…