It’s Football Time in NE Tennessee and SW Virginia
By: Paul Kavanaugh This point was driven home to me last week. Cruising down Volunteer Parkway I saw a sign that said, “Nothing smells worse than swamp gas”. Since the Vols were scheduled to play Florida, it made perfect sense! People love to root for their favorite team, and there is no shortage of t-shirts […]
Kellys Place
140 Words In (Maybe) 10 Seconds: An Experiment
The inspiration for this column comes from two unlikely places. First, while preparing to swipe my bank card at the grocery store check-out line, I was told by the cashier (I never use those pesky self-service kiosks) that the card swiper had just been updated to reduce the card-eject wait to just under seven seconds. […]
Appalachian Wanderers
Home of Aviation
On the date of December 17, 1903, mankind as a species made one of the greatest leaps forward in our never-ending quest to push the boundaries of science and innovation. On that day, the first self-propelled aircraft soared free in the skies above the windswept dunes of Kitty Hawk, thanks to the genius and hard […]
The Loafer
Skies This Week
Celestial events in the skies for the week of Sept. 19-25, 2017 as compiled for The Loafer by Mark D. Marquette. It’s officially sweater weather! The Autumnal Equinox occurs Friday, Sept. 22 at 4:02 pm when the Sun crosses the equator into the Southern Hemisphere (where it’s finally Spring!). That means equal amounts of daylight […]
Batteries Not Included
Hitchcock Comes to America
Alfred Hitchcock essentially spent the 1930s having his star rise in his native England, quickly becoming the most lauded director in the British film industry. In 1939 American producer David O. Selznick signed Hitchcock to a seven-year contract, bringing Britain’s famed director to American shores—where he would spend the rest of his career—becoming “The Master […]
Pop Life
The BUCS March Home
This week I am stepping out of the theater and into a football stadium. November 2003 was the last time East Tennessee State University played a football game on campus. I was there. Granted the Bucs won over The Citadel in the last seconds of the game, and despite of the joy of victory, reality […]
Stargazer
Autumn 2017 Just Around the Corner
Many people chose the autumn season as their favorite time of the year, and look out…it’s about to fall right in your lap! Earth officially reaches the point in its orbit around the Sun called the autumnal equinox on Friday, Sept. 22. Equinoxes…solstices…they are words that we use freely when the season merits. But we […]
Mountain Movers
David Joe Miller: The Interview
We all have a story in this region and the tradition of telling those stories as well as listening to them is an integral part of remembering who we are. If you want to hear someone spin a yarn in true Appalachian fashion, my new friend David Joe Miller is your guy. I was introduced […]
The Casual Word
Atlantis
Too many follow To swallow Me whole Dashed across shoals I am wind swept Turned Counter clockwise Counteracting All the work that has been laid before me Now laid to rest At best There will be remnants Foundations Basins Basements We lament and toil Swirling with rage Confusion Concern Hope less And hopeless Pressed To […]
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