The Walnut Street Bridge, pictured above, is Tennessee’s oldest non-military highway bridge still in use today. It was also the first non-military highway bridge across the Tennessee River. Today, instead of cars and trucks rumbling over it, pedestrians ranging from...
Nestled in a Tennessee Valley, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was one of the Nation’s best-kept secrets during WW II—one I had the opportunity to discover at their annual June Secret City Festival. And it turned out to be a secret I think needs sharing! I started out my day in...
Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a great city to visit! There are attractions for every interest from the Chattanooga riverfront, which is what I mainly explored, to its world famous Chattanooga Choo-Choo. One of the great things that I found as a visitor, though, is that...
In 1825 Henry and Polly Hagy sailed their flatboat down the Tennessee River with a boatload of dreams and little else. They hoped to start a farm and raise a family somewhere along its banks, if they could find the perfect spot. It might have been the view that drew...
Some say ghosts still drop exhausted to the ground, dip their heads and appease their thirst with water from the Bloody Pool, while gunshot echoes from the past ring out around them. Still others see a lady in white, picking her way among the dead and dying, seeking...
