by Ralphine Major | Sep 21, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It happens this time every year. Long summer days and the blazing hot sun slowly begin to disappear. Football season has started, the Tennessee Valley Fair has already come to Knoxville, and fall festivals are filling the calendar. The signs are in...
by Ralphine Major | Sep 14, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com I can see a little blond-headed boy standing in the back yard calling for his neighbor to come out and play. It was the sixties, and life was so simple in our rural community. Several times each summer, my brother and I would...
by Ralphine Major | Sep 8, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com His formal name was Cloyd Booker Chesney, but he was known as C. B. to most. He grew up in Corryton, graduated from Gibbs High School and Carson-Newman, and began a long and exemplary career in education. Karns was the place where...
by Ralphine Major | Aug 31, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major The sense of community for a rural school in northeast Knox County was strong. It was evident by the support they showed to the Gibbs High School basketball team Bob Dagley coached to a 31-2 record in 1965. Many families of the players had strong...
by Ralphine Major | Aug 24, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com Mr. C. B. Chesney was the Principal at Karns High School where Bob Dagley graduated. I recognized the name. Chesney was a member of the Gibbs High School basketball team that won the Knox County Rural League Championship in...
by Ralphine Major | Aug 17, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It is a scene right out of rural America—little Abbey and her grandfather riding on a John Deere tractor on a gorgeous summer evening with those “spacious skies” and mountains in the background and the American flag blowing...
