by Ralphine Major | Feb 12, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It started with “The Real McCoy.” My first column was about Dr. Kyle McCoy, our mother’s cardiologist. The time we spent in cardiac rehab after her heart attack in 2007 gave us valuable insight on heart disease, but a side benefit was even...
by Ralphine Major | Feb 5, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com She may have been best known as a fourth grade teacher at Gibbs Elementary School. I knew who she was because our father had her as a teacher. Brunetta Sharp graduated from Gibbs High School and The University of Tennessee and...
by Ralphine Major | Jan 29, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major In 1972, I am not sure I had even heard of a meteorologist, though we did have weather forecasters on the evening news. For snow predictions, Gibbs High School students could count on someone else. We had Mr. Drafts! Joe Drafts was the World...
by Ralphine Major | Jan 22, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major I am not sure if anyone saw it coming. As I recall, there was nothing unusual about the forecast for snow during the winter of ‘93. It will be 25 years ago this coming March since the Blizzard of ‘93 struck our nation, causing death and destruction...
by Ralphine Major | Jan 15, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major Shaped like a crescent moon, the big tan building set atop a hill at the end of a long driveway on Tazewell Pike in northeast Knox County. Originally known as the Beverly Hills TB Sanitorium and later the East Tennessee Tuberculosis Hospital, the...
by Ralphine Major | Jan 8, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It is definitely winter! Much of the nation—including the South—has seen frigid temperatures the last few days. Even some parts of the Southeast which seldom see snow, such as Georgia and Florida, are experiencing record snowfalls. ...
