Surnames based on nicknames often describe an ancestor’s appearance (build, hair, eyes, complexion), a trait (strong, bold, ...

Prior to initiating this article, I spent several hours doing some weeding and preliminary prep work to an area in our front ...

Garden Tour & Tea on June 7 offers a self-guided walk through historic gardens, featuring new stops, live harp music and a ...

A day later, I hosted a Baltimore oriole (a rare visitor at my home) and an even rarer visitor with a singing (more like ...

Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown — for a five-day immersion into history with Road Scholar. Each site brought surprises worth writing about in this column.

Tennessee Brew Works and Johnson City Brewing have released a limited-edition David Crockett Birthplace Pilsner to raise ...

On the heels of Storytelling Live season opener Josh Goforth, Grammy-nominated performance artist Milbre Burch will bring an array of folk tales and more to a weeklong residency in Jonesborough. Burch ...

The Historic Zoning Commission approved the design for a new brick trash enclosure on First Avenue, with landscaping and a ...

A few of the larger cities in Tennessee kept earlier records: births beginning in Memphis (1874), Chattanooga (1879), ...

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