May 30, 2025
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Fascinating Facts About Smyrna’s Sewart Air Force Base

                        Fascinating Facts About Sewart Air Force Base Editor’s Note: Last week I had the opportunity to visit the […]

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1st Amendment/Free Expression History

’Rare Finds’ by Dr. Larry Burriss

Rare Finds By Dr. Larry Burriss 05/19/2025 I don’t know about you, but I’m going to take some time for a closer look at all of those museum reproductions I […]

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Smyrna Could Be New Home for TN National Guard’s 118th Wing

Editor’s Note: I had an awesome opportunity to hang out with the crews of the KC-135 and the C-17 Globemaster III at the Smyrna Airport yesterday. The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker […]

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From Old Jefferson Community Resident to Real Estate Mogul: The Remarkable Journey of Charles Robert Jones

Charles Robert Jones was born in a tenant house on his grandfather’s farm in Gainesboro, TN on June 21, 1930. When Roosevelt was elected President in 1932, and in March […]

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History Leaving a Legacy Life Style

Missing Wisconsin mother found ‘alive and well’ after six decades ‘living her life’ happily with new husband and name: ‘Did what she had to do’

*This story originally published in The Guardian by Maya Yang May4, 2025. Audrey Backeberg who disappeared at age 20 in 1962 was found living out of the state, county sheriff’s […]

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Remembering George Smith, a ‘Rockstar’ who led by example

By Mike Sparks *Previously published in The Daily News Journal, March 28, 2018 It’s been said that “those that do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.” Dr. […]

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Education History Schools/Education

Three Presidents – Forty Years of Change In Tennessee

Three Presidents – Forty Years of Change As the leaves begin to turn and temperatures drop, visitors can plan an autumn outing that takes them back to the early and mid-19th […]

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1st Amendment/Free Expression Faith History Leaving a Legacy

When Critics Roar, Builders Rise: What Nehemiah, Goethals, and Lincoln Teach Us About Endurance

My son was a construction engineer whose first job was rebuilding the Goethals Bridge, a reconstruction project over the waterway between New Jersey and Staten Island. It had originally been […]

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History behind the Hymn “It is well with my soul”

THE STORY OF THE “IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL” Horatio Gates Spafford was born in New York, on 20th October 1828, but it was in Chicago that he became […]

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Education Faith History Leaving a Legacy Schools/Education

Historic Black School Near Stones River Battlefield Slated for Preservation

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee State University’s Center for Historic Preservation is working closely with alumnus and retired administrator Vincent Windrow and the Friends of Cemetery School to help preserve […]

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