’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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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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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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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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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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Hart’s Spring history originates with Namesake of Pioneer
July 27, 2021, Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal Big Hart’s Spring is one mile west of Smyrna at the head of Hart’s Branch and carries a beautiful history within […]