by Ray Hill | Oct 11, 2015 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill The first real media marketing campaign began in December of 1954 when Walt Disney aired Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter. It was the first of three episodes planned by Disney based on the life of the Tennessee frontiersman. The Disney movie...
by Ray Hill | Oct 4, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Eleanor Medill Patterson was the first woman to successfully run a major metropolitan newspaper. Known as “Cissy” due to the nickname given to her in childhood by her brother, she was volatile, unpredictable, frequently gleefully malevolent and...
by Ray Hill | Sep 27, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill If Senator K. D. McKellar was an accomplished feudist, another son of Tennessee was at the very least as accomplished in that art: General Andrew Jackson. President Andrew Jackson carried the bullet in his body from a duel he fought until he died;...
by Ray Hill | Sep 20, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill As with most everything in Tennessee, Senator Kenneth D. McKellar felt a proprietary interest in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. McKellar had been instrumental in helping along the park, sponsoring legislation with Senator Claude A. Swanson...
by Ray Hill | Sep 13, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Herbert Sanford Walters was a successful businessman and by the appointment of Governor Frank Clement, United States senator from Tennessee. A reminder of Herbert Walters to many East Tennesseans is Walters State Community College. Born November 17, 1891...
by Ray Hill | Sep 7, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill By 1929, Luke Lea had reached the apex of his political influence in Tennessee. Lea was the undisputed power behind the throne and no one had more influence in the administration of Governor Henry Horton. When Tennessee’s junior United States senator,...