by Ralphine Major | Nov 2, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com “This is a big bookstore,” Max told his grandparents. Max is right. But, he and Maci knew just where to find “Piddle Diddle’s Lost Hat” in the big bookstore! It was nearly ten years ago when East Tennessee siblings Wayne and...
by Ralphine Major | Oct 26, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Majors Woodrow Luttrell grew up in the Luttrell House on a farm on Washington Pike in Corryton. It seemed fitting that the Gibbs High School graduate study agriculture at The University of Tennessee’s College of Agriculture from 1934-1938. The name was...
by Ralphine Major | Oct 19, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It was a beautiful fall evening when we arrived. By the time customers started coming for the book signing, a terrible storm had descended on Knoxville. Wayne and I were honored to be among the authors of Jan-Carol Publishing, Inc. and other...
by Ralphine Major | Oct 12, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It was pouring down rain just days after Autumn made her appearance! But, that didn’t bother Piddle Diddle. She was happy because she had found her lost hat! “Piddle Diddle’s Lost Hat” is the first in a series, “Adventures of Piddle Diddle, the...
by Ralphine Major | Oct 5, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major When I opened his letter, my eye was drawn to the sketch of a beautiful home on the letterhead in the top left corner. Below the stately home it read: Luttrell House 1905. The letter was from a man named Luttrell—Woodrow Luttrell. The 1934...
by Ralphine Major | Sep 29, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It was a big, yellow school bus that first brought us all together. One of Herb Barker’s buses made its rounds twice daily on our rural roads. It chugged down Emory, onto Stormer, then the horseshoe bend on Beeler that brought it...
