by design | Aug 7, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
A Day Away By Mike Steely My wife and I often take side trips on our way here and there and many of those driving adventures involve visiting ghost towns. You can visit these places and each is a good place to research, educate children on our history, or just roam...
by design | Jul 31, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
A Day Away By Mike Steely My fascination with ghost towns goes back to my childhood and growing up along the Tennessee and Kentucky border where there were many abandoned coal mining towns. I remember visiting places like Morley, Pruden and Habersham shortly after...
by design | Jul 23, 2023 | Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Jellico celebrates 140 years A Day Away By Mike Steely Downtown Jellico is a throwback to the 1880s when the small Campbell County town boomed thanks to its local coal mining, shipping and rail service industries, and a thriving population. From then until roughly the...
by design | Jul 10, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’ play set for this weekend in Dayton A Day Away By Mike Steely If you haven’t planned anything for Friday and Saturday this week you may want to drive over to Dayton, Tennessee, and attend the Scopes Trial reenactment, “Destiny in Dayton.”...
by design | Jul 3, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
Exploring the Meriwether Lewis Mystery A Day Away By Mike Steely The Natchez Trace is one of the oldest routes in our state and runs as a two-lane parkway from southwest Nashville all the way to Natchez, Mississippi. The route is dotted with historic spots here and...
by design | Jun 25, 2023 | Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
A Day Away By Mike Steely The little town of Tazewell is one of my favorite places and if you only drive along Highway 25E through Claiborne County, you’ll miss the historic town center. Tazewell is just south of Cumberland Gap and has existed since 1804. Tazewell,...
