by design | Jan 29, 2024 | Columnist, Steely
Olde Time Memories More Than A Day Away by Mike Steely One of the benefits of getting old, which we assume begins at age 60 or 65, isn’t just qualifying for social security, retirement, Medicare or “senior discounts” but age bringing back memories of childhood. We can...
by design | Jan 8, 2024 | Columnist, Steely
Visiting Bays Mountain Park A Day Away by Mike Steely I’ll bet you have never visited Bays Mountain Park in Kingsport. My wife and I took a cold Sunday afternoon drive there since it’s probably been 40 or more years since our last venture there. Bays Mountain is a...
by design | Jan 1, 2024 | Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
A book with a backstory A Day Away By Mike Steely Sometimes a find in a used book bin can lead to an interesting story about the book and the author. The battered book I recently found in a discard pile, “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” was written by Frances Hodgson...
by design | Dec 26, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
On turning 77 years old By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com When does one become an old person? For me it was today, December 26, when I realized I am now 77 years old. By anyone’s standards that’s old. I was born in 1946 and supposedly may be the...
by design | Dec 18, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
What is your earliest memory of meeting Santa? More Than A Day Away By Mike Steely I was about 8 years old and on Christmas Eve my brother, sister and I were watching TV and begging to open presents. There was a knock at the back door and it was Santa! He came in and...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
Jellico to host a lost treasure forum More Than A Day Away by Mike Steely On Saturday, December 9, I’ll travel up to my hometown, Jellico, to be part of a forum about a lost treasure tale there. Years ago I published “Swift’s Silver Mine and Related Appalachian...
