Our Great Hymns

  By Ralphine Major The day finally arrived when she added “hymns” to the lesson plan.  Jewel Harris Atkins, my piano teacher, surely sensed the excitement she had created with the hymns.  Scales and classical music pieces may have suffered through my week of...

A tyrant in our house

By Joe Rector Amy and I were strict parents, I much more so than she because my hateful voice matched my sore disposition. I didn’t say we were abusive; however, our children weren’t strangers to spankings. Our children did not run the household; that was Amy’s job,...

What Does Implied Consent Mean?

  By Jedidiah McKeehan One of the weirdly titled laws in Tennessee is the, “Implied Consent” statute. What in the world is implied consent? Implied consent means that by operating a vehicle on the roadways of Tennessee you have “implied your consent” to have your...

Living and dying with Tennessee football games

By Tom Mattingly Whenever he discussed his time as “Voice of the Vols,” 1952-67, broadcaster George Mooney always remembered the good times. In the spring of 1952, at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Gen. Robert R. Neyland had asked him to broadcast the Tennessee games....