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Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them.
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Board Games Off Broadway On Saturday, September 26th from 5:00 to 8:00, Through the Looking Glass Antiques and Collectibles on Jackson Square will host “Board Games off Broadway.” It will be an evening for people of all ages to come together, enjoy the fall weather, and play some of their favorite board games. Since Through the Looking Glass is an antique store, many of the games will be vintage favorites such as Master Mind, Majong, PokeMon, Dungeons and Dragons, Chess and more.
covered sidewalk of Jackson Square for people to come play an old favorite game or learn a new one. Razzleberry’s will be open serving refreshments so games can be accompanied with ice cream, hot dogs, beer, and more. Owner Linda Johnston says some of the games will be for sale and she hopes to make this a regular event. She foresees a future of game nights on the square with themes of various time periods. “My store is a history store,” she said and Linda seems to love bringing history to life, while adding new life to the community.
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Moonlight Hike September 26 The UT Arboretum Society presents a “Moonlight Hike” on Saturday, September 26, 2015, from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm at the Arboretum at 901 S. Illinois Avenue in Oak Ridge.
full moon is Sunday, September 27; we scheduled the hike a day early so that older schoolchildren could participate on a non-school night. Moonrise Saturday night is at 6:37 so it will have risen Join us as we walk Arboretum above the trees by the time trails by the light of the silvery we start. moon. The hike will begin at the Visitors Center near the Light refreshments will be parking lot at 7:30 pm. The served. Bring a flashlight if 1.5 mile hike will be led by you wish. Wear sturdy shoes experienced volunteers. The with good support as the trail
surface can be uneven with roots and rocks. Long pants and bug repellent are also recommended. A suggested $5 donation per car will help the Arboretum Society support the Arboretum. The hike will be cancelled in the event of rain or very cloudy skies. Call the Arboretum office at 483-3571 with questions. Note: This event is limited to participants age 10 and older.
Appalachian Arts Craft Center’s Annual Porch Sale Thursday, October 8 & Chili Supper Sunday, October 11
The Appalachian Arts Craft Center in Norris will hold its Annual Fall Porch Sale starting Thursday, October 8, and running for about two weeks. It will be an evening for fun for Call Linda at 335-5614 for The Porch Sale features outeveryone. Tables will line the more information. dated stock, seconds, student crafts and unjuried work by members of the Craft Center. It’s an excellent time to get great deals. There will also be baked goods for sale. On Sunday, 11 the Appalachain Arts Craft Center will be hosting a Chili Supper including traditional music and a silent auction from 5 to 8 p.m. The cost is only $10.00 for homemade chili, cornbread, dessert, and drink. Those
wanting their meal served in a handcrafted pottery bowl, can do so for only $25. Handmade crafts, services, and other items will be up for bid at a silent auction. The Appalachian Arts Craft Center is a nonprofit center that has been fulfilling its mission by promoting traditional
artists and crafts in the East Tennessee area for 40 years. The center is located at 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris, one mile east of I-75 north at Exit 122. Currently the center has about 70 crafters who sell in the shop. For more information, call 865-494-9854, or www. appalachianarts.net.
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Louie Bluie Music & Arts Fest Coming in Sept. 26 Now in its ninth year, the homegrown Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival celebrates the life and enduring creative
spirit of one of Campbell County’s most famous residents. The festival takes place on Saturday, September 26, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Cove Lake State Park in Caryville, Tenn.
Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong was born in 1909 in Dayton, Tennessee, and spent his youth with his family in
LaFollette, which at the time was a racially diverse community made up of minorities and immigrants who worked at the iron furnace. Ambassadors of Howard’s legacy love to relate tales of how the cre-
ative child— undeterred by his family’s poverty—made paintbrushes from hair plucked from his unsuspecting cat’s tail and concocted paint colors from berries and secondhand crepe paper. By the age of 9, Howard was well on his way to becoming a musician, mastering a homemade violin, then mandolin and guitar. And it wasn’t long before Howard was leading a family band with his five brothers, then, as a teenager, teaming up with Carl Martin and Ted Bogan. This trio played in many venues, barbershops and storefronts during the 1920s and made recordings during the famous St. James Sessions in 1929 in downtown Knoxville. Howard’s creative pursuits extended to painting, jewelry making and languages, of which he mastered seven in his lifetime. Art and music were always a part of Howard’s life, even as he married and had a family in Detroit and made a living as a sign painter and held many other jobs. Bogan, Martin and Armstrong revived their act in the mid-‘70s, as American audiences and music historians experienced a renewed
interest in early 20th-century in-life love story of Howard country blues and folk per- and his second wife, Barbara Ward, who, despite a vast age formers. difference, shared a passion for art and music and a seemingly infinite appetite for creativity. Mahan’s film documents Howard and Barbara’s visits to Knoxville and Campbell County, during which the hometown musician is feted and honored. That visit planted the seeds of the inaugural Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival with the founders of the Campbell Culture Coalition, who were determined to share the remarkable story of the award-winning, worldtraveling artist who spent his childhood in LaFollette.
Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff became familiar with Howard through his passion for collecting 78 records and made the documentary, Louie Bluie, in 1985. More than a decade later, another filmmaker, Leah Mahan, captured Howard at The Louie Bluie Festival is the another stage of his life. Sweet (See ‘Louie’ on page 39) Old Song (2002) tells the late-
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Local Food & Music Served up at “Taste of Anderson County” Flavors from some of the area’s favorite restaurants and the sounds of local musicians will fill the newly renovated parking lot at Jackson Square on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at the seventh annual “Taste of Anderson County.” This year will be bigger and better than ever with vendors from all over the county! More importantly, this event brings a substantial amount of support for two local causes United Way of Anderson County, and the Free Medical Clinic! Both of these nonprofits are working hard this year to make a big impact in the community! But they can’t do it without the community there to support
them.
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United Way of Anderson The Free Medical Clinic is County has big plans this a true warrior! Serving low year! Its purpose as an orga- income, uninsured patients in Anderson, Morgan, and Roane Counties, nearly 4000 have been treated at the clinic, ringing in more than 21,000 visits since nization is to bring the com- January 2010! With a vast munity together; to encour- number of patients endurage, enable, and provide ing what may be the worst help to more than 33 of the times in their life, they turn to community’s nonprofit agen- the Free Medical Clinic, not cies working the hardest to only for medical care, but a provide our community with kind word, listening ears, and its greatest needs. United strong shoulders to lean on. Way of Anderson County The Free Medical Clinic takes brings resources together so Complete Patient Care to a that the area’s nonprofits can whole new level! work together and promote a Neither of these entities can function without the support of their community behind them! And what better way to provide that support than an event filled with fun and food? Visitors at “Taste of Anderson County” can enjoy a sampling of food from some of Anderson County’s best restaurants, including Hot Bagel Company, Riverview Grill, Secret City BBQ and Pies, The Other One, The Soup Kitchen, Birdwell Catering, Centennial Golf Course, Honey Baked Ham, Crossroads Coffee, Jimmy John’s, Kroger, and Papa John’s just to name a few! All of these fantastic establishments will
showcase their fare in small, ‘taste’sized portions. This event is a great opportunity for local restaurants to share some of their favorite dishes, while proceeds will benefit the United Way of Anderson County and the Free Medical Clinic. ‘Tastes’ from each vendor will be priced from 1 to 4 tickets per item. Tickets will be available to purchase for $1 at entrances to the event. Attendees may buy as many tickets as they like!
As if that wasn’t enough, there will also be tastings of locally made beers, wine and, yes, moonshine! These tastings will be open for voting, and at the end of the night a winner will be announced in each category!
A fantastic set list has been confirmed as the evening’s entertainment! So, come ready to taste your way to a full belly, and raise your glasses to the causes you’ll be supporting while the music But wait! There’s more! The surrounds you at the heart of first annual “King of the Wing” your home town! a chicken wing competition open to both individuals and Follow the “Taste of Anderbusinesses! Entries may be son County” Facebook event fried, smoked or grilled the page for updates. For more only rules are that the wings information or to sign up as a are prepared, seasoned and vendor, volunteer, or to enter cooked from scratch using no the “King of the Wing” compremade spice rubs or sauc- petition call (865) 4838431 / es. There are a lot of fierce email Zina@uwayac.org. Or competitors out there, ready go to our website to downto bring their AGame! load forms: www.uwayac.org
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15th Annual Clinch River Fall Antiques Festival The Anderson County Chamber of Commerce is pleased to host the 15th annual Clinch River Fall Antiques Festival on October 9th & 10th in Historic Downtown Clinton,Tn. On Friday evening, Oct. 9th from 6-9pm, there will be live acoustic musical entertainment and food vendors in the Hoskins/Lane Park, muscle cars displayed on Market Street, and the antique shops, specialty shops and eateries will be open late. New this
year to the Festival’s Friday evening activities will be musical entertainment and a chili cook-off by local fire departments, located at the Cullom Street cul-de-sac. This years entertainment will be provided by “The Parrott Brother’s Band”. Admission and parking for the evenings festivities are free with only a $5 charge for tasting and judging the chili cook-off. Don’t forget to bring your lawn chairs to sit in while enjoying the music.
On Saturday, October 10th from 9am-5pm, over 90 antique dealers and artisans will line the streets in the historic district for an old-time street festival. Dealers from throughout the southeast will gather to provide shoppers and visitors a great selection of antiques and collectibles. An antique appraiser will be on hand to appraise your treasures, beautiful antique cars and trucks will be on display, there will be delicious food, musical entertainment and a re-enactment of the historic Burr-Hamilton duel. Again this year history will come to life through a reenactment of the 1804 pistol duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Burr, first term Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson, shot Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, in a duel
fueled by years of animos- 12:30pm in the “flat” on Market ity and personal tensions be- Street in front of the Hoskins/ tween the two political rivals. Lane Park. Learn what the significance
of this duel between national leaders had on Clinton’s history and why once named Burrville changed its name to Clinton. The re-enactment is scheduled to take place
New Chamber President Rick Meredith announces, “The Anderson County of Commerce is please to be a part of a fes(See ‘Antiques’ on page 12)
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Days of the Pioneer” Antique Show; September 11&12 The fourth annual “Days of During the show, historic they pick away on some of at the Museum or online at the Pioneer” Antique Show demonstrations take place in the historic cabin porches, www.museumofappalachia. will feature the finest playing traditional org. Admission to the Antique selection of 18th and Appalachian music; or Show includes a tour of the 19th century American stop and visit with either entire Museum complex antiques. An extensive Civil or Revolutionary which encompasses 30 plus collection of some of War re-enactors, log cabins, exhibit halls, the finest dealers hail dressed in full garb and farm animals, and heirloom from across the United regalia, as they stroll the gardens, surrounded by States, waiting a year hand-split, cedar rail fences grounds. to participate in this first and open, rolling meadows. class event. This year’s The Museum’s quaint affair is set for Friday and restaurant serves a hot Relish shopping the ‘Shop at Saturday, September country style Southern the Museum of Appalachia’, 11-12, 2015, and will be lunch, fresh - from - the - which features crafts and held on the picturesque garden vegetables, and handiwork from heritage grounds of the Museum mouth - watering home- artisans, books authored by of Appalachia. made desserts; enjoy regional writers, one-of-alocal food vendors with kind gifts, as well as unusual “Days of the Pioneer,” choices such as country and repurposed “Made in a premier antique ham & biscuits, southern America” items. show, continues to be BBQ, chuck wagon overwhelming success cooking, homemade ice The Museum of Appalachia, for antique enthusiasts Smithsonian Affiliate cream and Dutch oven a from all over the country. Museum, is a non-profit cobbler. Rosalie, a faithful organization whose mission follower of this event, Discounted tickets are is to preserve Appalachian visits each year from available through August history through the artifacts Oregon: “The ‘Days of the select locations throughout 24th and may be purchased our ancestors left behind. Pioneer’ Antique Show is the village, where tradesman the Best I’ve ever been to, operate some of the no other antique show can Museum’s antique facilities; compare! I travel 2000 miles pounding away on the iron every year just for the show… forge in the blacksmith shop, find the most one of a kind, slicing logs on the tractorwonderful antiques that I driven sawmill, and grinding will treasure forever…look cane with a mule-driven mill, forward to the great Museum for guests to experience up of Appalachia each year also, close. best Museum I’ve ever been to!!” Settle in and listen to oldtime, mountain musicians as
Memberships are available, providing a year of visits, admission to special museum events (including the Days of the Pioneer Antique Show) as well as membership in the Smithsonian Institution. For more information call (865) 494-7680 or visit the website at www. museumofappalachia.org.
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Oktoberfest Time Again in Crossville Preparations are underway in The Knights of Columbus The festivities will kick off with Crossville, TN for Oktoberfest Activity Park, located at 2892 the traditional tapping of the - 2 0 1 5 h i g h a t o p t h e Highway 70 East, 3 miles east keg at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, October 9th. Continuous music will then run immediately after through 9:30 p.m. On Saturday, October 10th another day of fun, food, music and excitement begins at 11 a.m. and continues until 9:30 p.m.
Cumberland Plateau. Reserve the dates of October 9th and 10th for your dining, dancing and listening pleasure, at
Returning again this year for their 16th year is the ever popular group, the Rheingold Band from Louisville, Kentucky. This group of five men has performed at fests all over the Midwest in their traditional lederhosen. Look for them, with their upbeat tempo, to get the crowd involved both young and old. The Bavarian Echo, a local husband and of downtown Crossville (Exit wife band from Crossville, 322 off I-40, south to Hwy 70, will provide their specialty of then 1/3 mile east). German & Bavarian Music. Performing for their 5th year at the Oktoberfest will be the Frank Moravcik Band from Cleveland, Ohio. The band plays a wide variety of music featuring their brand of “Cleveland Style� polka music. All day and evening long, you will be able to enjoy, once again, the authentic German food that you have come to expect at the Oktoberfest. Enjoy bratwurst, knackwurst, wiesswurst, pork schnitzel, and kasseler rippchen (smoked pork chop) along with
sauerkraut, red cabbage and cinnamon apples. For dessert, German chocolate cake and cheesecake are available. Imported and domestic beverages are also available.
tivities, Oktoberfest in Crossville is the place to be RAIN OR SHINE! All activities are under cover. Admission tickets are $7.50 at the gate while advance tickets are $6.00. Refer to www.crossvilleoktoberfest.com for how to purchase advance tickets and for additional information.
The Knights of Columbus started the Oktoberfest in Crossville 25 years ago, and it has become a yearly event that is anxiously awaited by many throughout middle and east Tennessee. Pictured is the Mark Oktoberfest in Crossville has Moravcik Band and been rated by many as the the Chicken Dance most authentic Oktoberfest Chicken. they have attended. So if you want to dance to the best German bands in the country, eat the best German food in the land, or just come out and watch the fes-
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Save the Date: St. Marys Fall Fest October 16th & 17th Save the date for the 65th Annual St. Mary’s Fall Festival which will be celebrated this year on October 16 th -17 th. Every year the community looks forward to sharing this day of fun and festivities on St. Mary’s Parish grounds. The kick-off for this year’s festival will be Friday, Oct 16th with the famous and delicious Knights of Columbus spaghetti dinner. The dinner will be served from 5-7pm in the St. Mary’s Parish Life Center/ Columbus Hall with the Live Auction beginning at 7pm.
If you have an item or items soon, so keep a watch for to donate for the live auction more info to follow! please contact Lynda Vinyard If you missed the Silent Aucat 556-1355. tion on Friday, you haven’t Throughout the evening the missed your chance as it sweet tooth can be satisfied will be going on throughout at the “Bake Shoppe” while the day Saturday. The Bake browsing the St. Lucy’s Guild Shoppe, Face Painting, and “Silent Auction”. Once again the Dried and Fresh Flowers, there will be “buy it now” pric- including Mums can also be ing on certain items. The found on the festival grounds hand-painted furniture is al- and live entertainment will be ways a favorite! Children’s on the main stage throughout activities will be going on dur- the day. ing the auction for children up to 4th grade. On Saturday, Oct 17h festival activities will run from 10am6pm on the Parish Grounds. The selection of festival foods will be amazing as always and there will be plenty to choose for lunch and dinner. Returning favorites will be the American Grille, Hot Wngs, Bar-B-Que Chicken, The German Bier Garten and the Spanish Food Booth. The Chili Cook Off is making a return appearance and entries will be accepted
St. Joseph’s Food Pantry will be accepting your “Thanksgiving” food item donation, and you will receive a prize stamp which can be redeemed at the prize booth. St. Joseph’s Food Pantry is a ministry at St. Mary’s that supplies food to those in need in our community. Another of St. Mary’s outreach ministries – The White Elephant – will be open for business on Friday 3-5pm, and Saturday from 9am – 4pm. New fall and
winter clothing will be available as will Halloween and Christmas decorations. The Medic Blood Mobile will also be onsite throughout the day accepting donors. For more info about this year’s festival please contact Jeff Tidwell at (865) 805-6251 OR jdtidwell1234@gmail.com If you have interest in becoming a festival sponsor, please contact: development@stmarysoakridge.org
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2015 Tennessee Fall Homecoming October 9-11 East Tennessee may be Elaine Meyer, Museum Presi- a very small community event; anxious for the first signs dent, has been involved with a gathering of friends, family, of spring, but in the spirit of Homecoming since its incep- and musicians who displayed promoting the musical their talents on the back heritage of the region, the of a hay wagon. From the Museum of Appalachia is beginning, I remember bakexcited to announce this ing bread of all sorts for autumn’s stellar lineup for our guests, and listening its 36th Annual Tennessee with joy to some amazing Fall Homecoming. musicians. Today, 36 years later, Homecoming is now This year’s beloved and considered a nationally historic three-day event acclaimed festival, but the will take place on October very same feeling is there, 9-11th, with more than 70 even with some of the same national, regional and local people participating. The musicians booked to perone hay wagon has been form on five rustic outdoor replaced by five unique stages, throughout the stages, but Homecoming pastoral grounds of the continues to an event that Museum of Appalachia. music greats have long Music enthusiasts come considered a ‘performance from all over the United destination’, from legends States, Canada and Eulike Bill Monroe and John rope to experience this Hartford to the current genannual tradition, now in its eration of amazing talent. 36th year. This year’s lineup promises tion: “Homecoming began as to be one of the best ever.” The experience is unrivaled, according to long-time fan, Tom Bell of Louisville, Kentucky: “I’ve been attending the Tennessee Fall Homecoming at the Museum of Appalachia for 24 years and wouldn’t miss it for anything. I’m there when the first note is played Friday morning until the last note Sunday afternoon. I sit there in the sun and rain-in the heat and cold. The only problem is
there are four (5) stages and it’s difficult to decide which one to go to because they are all so good. When the show is over on Sunday, I look forward to attending the following year.” Prime artists scheduled to appear include multiple Grammy and International Bluegrass Music Award (IBMA) recipients and Bluegrass Hall of Fame Members, the Del McCoury Band; Grammy nominated and two-time IBMA banjo player of the year award winner, JD Crowe and the New South-Reunion; and, the multiple Grammy and Dove nominated band, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, also
a 7-time IBMA Vocal Group of the Year and Bluegrass Hall of Fame Member.
The line-up is rich in talent with reigning IBMA Entertainers of the Year, Balsam Range; previous two-time IBMA Entertainers of the Year and Vocal Group of the Year, the Gibson Brothers; IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year, the Boxcars; IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year, Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers; IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year and IBMA Guitar Player of the Year, Kenny and Amanda Smith, and multiple Grammy winner, David Holt, accompa(See ‘Homecoming’ on page 41)
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Chamber of Commerce @ 865-457-2559 or visit: www. clinchriverfallantiquefestival. (Continued from page 7) On September 12th, Through com the Looking Glass Antiques tival that attracts and Collectibles at Jackson Pictured are Burrlocal, out of town Hamilton Duel: “Aar- Square will host “Free Timeand out of state on Burr and Alexander An Oak Ridge Art Teacher visitors to our area Hamilton prepare to Retrospective.” Coordinator that supports lostep off the historic and art teacher, Jim Dodson cal businesses, duel prompting said, “It celebrates the time boosts our lothe Town of Bur- that art educators have to cal economy rville to change practice what they teach as and encourits name to the they create their own artwork. ages visitors Town of Clin- We feel it’s always important to return to ton. Visit the to continue to learn and prothe area. This 14 th Annual duce art giving a teacher more is an event you Clinch River experience as we help our don’t want to Antique Fes- young learners.” miss.” tival to see a Clinton is locatr e - e n a c t m e n t Teachers who will be dised 5 miles west of this famous playing their work are Giseof Interstate 75 at duel.” Also pic- la Schrock, Anna Wakefield, Exit 122 on Hwy. t u r e d S t r e e t Kristi Bailey, James Dodson, 61, 15 minutes Crowd: “Antique north of Knoxville. shoppers enjoy a on Hwy. 25W, or beautiful day treasure 10 minutes east of hunting for unique anOak Ridge,Tn. tiques from the on Hwy. 61. For Festival’s 90+ more information vendors as on the 15th Annual Clinch w e l l as a wide array of River Fall Antique Festival, antique shops. contact the Anderson County
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Art Teachers of Oak Ridge Exhibition Sean Seyfert, Tristy A. Berryhill, Mary K. Chin, Molly Chance, Sara Cochran, and Jefferson Middle art intern Alexis Keever. The exhibit will be composed of drawings, paintings, multimedia pieces, photography, sculpture and ceramics. Many of the pieces will be available to purchase. This is the first of many art exhibits planned for the space this year, giving students of all ages the opportunity to share their talents and love for visual art with our community. There will be an opening reception on the 12th from 6:00 to
7:00 and refreshments will be served. The artwork will continue to be on display through the month of September. Through the Looking Glass owner, Linda Johnston says she is happy to host the event because the items to be displayed are, “Future antiques.” Through the Looking Glass is located at 209 Jackson Square and you can call them at 865-335-5614 for more information.
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Pat Boone: The Music & The Memories; October 22 Masskus Productions proudly announces Popular Music Icon, Pat Boone, coming to Oak Ridge. He will be backed by Knoxville Area Swing Orchestra, The Streamliners!
all seats reserved. Tickets range from $75 VIP seating (with artist Meet-N-Greet) to orchestra $50, side aisles $35 and $20 upper balcony. Available through www.KnoxvilleTickets.com and by phone The performance of his “The 865-656-4444. Music and The Memories” Show is a Benefit for the Music The Oak Ridge Performing Department at the Oak Ridge Arts Center located at 1450 High School. Oak Ridge Turnpike will be a buzz when Legendary VoTickets are Now on Sale! calist, Pat Boone brings his production “The Music and Thursday, October 22, 7:30pm the Memories” to Oak Ridge
on Thursday, October 22, 9, just behind the Rolling he began hosting a halfat 7:30pm. Unlike his many Stones and Paul McCart- hour ABC variety television previous performances, this ney but ahead of artists such series, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, which aired will be unique, as he will for 115 episodes (1957– be backed by Knoxville’s 1960). Many musical perown swing orchestra, The formers, including Edie AdStreamliners. (http://thesams, Andy Williams, Pearl treamliners.com/index2. Bailey and Johnny html) Mathis made appearances on the show. His cover verCharles Eugene "Pat" sions of popular rhythm and Boone, was born June 1, blues hits had a noticeable 1934. He continues as effect on the development of a successful pop singer the broad popularity of rock throughout the World but and roll. In 1955 Elvis Premade his start becoming sley had the honor of being the first, “American Idol,” the opening act for a show in the United States during in Cleveland, Ohio starring the 1950s and early 1960s. Pat Boone. He has sold over 45 million albums, had 38 Top 40 hits As an author, Boone had and appeared in more than a No. 1 bestseller in the 12 Hollywood movies. 1950s, Twixt Twelve and According to Billboard Maga- as Aretha Franklin and the Twenty, which has been rezine, Boone was the sec- Beach Boys — in its listing cently rereleased from Prenond biggest charting artist of the Top 100 Top 40 Artists tice-Hall. In the 1960s, he of the late 1950s, behind 1955–1995. Boone still holds focused on gospel music and only Elvis Presley, but ahead the Billboard record for spend- is a member of the Gospel of Ricky Nelson and the Plat- ing 220 consecutive weeks on Music Hall of Fame. He conters, and was ranked at No. the charts with one or more of tinues to perform, and speak as a motivational speaker, his songs listed each week. a television personality, and At the age of twenty-three, (See ‘Boone’ on page 45)
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The HeART of the Community As we move nearer to the end of a hot and humid summer in East Tennessee, I’m sure you will all agree that the weather and the scenery in Anderson County both are making a pleasant transformation. Each morning brings a new adventure by the beautiful waterfront of Melton Lake as I greet many walkers, joggers, and bikers. But, I think the most astonishing part of my daily walks are the moments where nature shows her true beauty from amazing landscapes to the sometimes unseen beauty of waterfowl and insects greeting a new day. I’ve enjoyed sharing some of these special moments on social media and have included a few in this article.
attending the next meeting of the Camera Club of Oak Ridge. The CCOR meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30pm at the Oak Ridge campus of the Roane State Community College’s City Room, 701 Briarcliff Ave. The Club’s Annual Salon is East Tennessee’s most prestigious photography competition and show. Hundreds of entries from both amateurs and professionals throughout East Tennessee hang in the beautiful New Hope Center during the month of November. The show formally opens with an evening reception and gallery walk. For more information, visit the club’s website at www.cameraclubofoakridge.org.
We are so fortunate to have opportunities to record this natural beauty in our town and for those looking to share their experiences please consider
The next performance at the Oak Ridge Playhouse is “One Man, Two Guvnors” from August 28 – September 6. The Playhouse is located
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more information or to order sented at 7 pm and a gallery tickets visit www.orplayhouse. talk will precede the opening com or call 865-482-9999. at 6:30pm. The exhibition will run through November 7. Fall
Jim Dodson at 227 Broadway Avenue. Performances: 8/28 & 29 at 8pm; 8/30 at 2pm; 9/3-5 at 8pm; and 9/6 at 2pm. Change is in the air for Francis Henshall, who was recently fired and looking to make his mark. Circumstances find him suddenly working for not one, but two bosses. Faced with the distractions of a buxom bookkeeper, a self-important actor, and select members of the local criminal community, all the while fighting mounting mistaken identities and confusion, Francis goes out of his way to serve both his “guvnors” while keeping his moonlighting a secret. For
The Oak Ridge Art Center’s classes will begin the week of next exhibition “Open Show September 14 through 18. For 2015” will open with a recep- more information on exhibition on September 12 from (See ‘Arts’ on page 19) 7-9pm. Awards will be pre-
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The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
Tales from the Hinterland
hin(t)ərˌland/: an area laying beyond what is visible or known I couldn’t understand what I was seeing. I was there to mow the church lawn so it would look nice for the next day’s worship service, and Pastor Hampton was locking the doors – not the regular way, but running a heavy chain through the door handles, and latching the ends together with a big padlock. “What’s going on, Pastor?” I asked.
our doors. They’re all gone. They’ve all moved away, or converted into something else. There aren’t enough left for us to stay in business. The market rules, and it says we can’t keep the lights on anymore.” “What do you mean, Pastor?” I countered. “Things have been tough for a while, sure, but there are signs the town is on an upswing. Things are picking up, there are a few more jobs to be had, and some families with young children are moving in. Birth notices in the paper are even beginning to catch up with the obits.”
Out of Business for Lack of Sin Spiritually Speaking
Chris Bunn,Rev. are plenty of people – it’s the sins that have all moved out. We’re going out of business for lack of sin. All the church has to offer is God’s solution to sin, and when all the sins have disappeared, we’ve got nothing left to say. There’s no longer a market for what we offer.”
Scarcely glancing up before turning back to his work, Pastor Hampton replied, “I’m closing up the church, Jimmy, Now I was getting worried locking it up for the last time. After thirty-five years in this “You misunderstand me,” about Pastor’s state of mind, community, we’re closing Pastor answered. “There and nervously asked, “Well, what happened to all the sins? The world used to be full of them.” “Well,” he answered, “a great many of them became mistakes, others became addictions or diseases, some weaknesses or needs. Some moved to the city and became lifestyles or rights, and some even moved to one of the coasts and converted altogether into virtues. Even those unable to climb the social ladder to respectability or victimhood have managed
to become mere crimes. Sin is an ugly word that brings to mind another three-letter word, G – O – D, you know, as in ‘Against Thee and Thee only I have sinned.’ It makes them uneasy, and smacks too much of judgment to come, so it’s only natural that sins would seek out more affirming environments, or at least less judgmental ones. So in large numbers they’ve converted into mistakes, diseases, rights, or some such. And I have to admit they get along much better – once they make the transition they find it much easier to make friends with folks and find shelter and sustenance. But in any case, they’re done with the church.” “You see, Jimmy,” Pastor continued, “if the problem is a crime, you need a policeman and a jail, not a pastor and a church. If the problem is a mistake, you need an eraser or a teacher, or maybe even a coach, but not a preacher. If the problem is a disease, you need to get to a hospital, not to a church. If the problem is an addiction, you need a twelve-step program, not a church bulletin.” He was on a roll, preachingwise, and I knew well enough
that there was nothing to do but let him finish, even if I was stuck playing the role of the congregation all by myself. But I was beginning to think he wasn’t off his nut, after all. “And of course,” he continued, “rights are to be respected, not revoked; lifestyles to be lived and let alone to be lived; and virtues to be celebrated and encouraged, not slandered. We can’t offer them redemption without first calling them by their correct names, and they find that that’s not the sort of thing they want to give up sleeping in on Sunday for.” “Well, Pastor,” I said, “I’m surprised you’re giving up so easily. If the people aren’t buying what we’ve been selling, maybe we need to tweak the product a little. There are a good many churches around here that are doing just fine by giving the people what they want, what they feel like they really need – help managing their hectic lives, solutions to their relationship problems, a sense of belonging to counter their loneliness and isolation, a boost to their self-esteem, you know, the kinds of things that really make a difference in people’s lives.” (See ‘Sin’ on page 42)
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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Call for All TN Photographers The Camera Club of Oak Ridge is announcing its 67th Annual Salon - one of East Tennessee’s most prestigious photography shows and competitions. All photographers, amateurs and professionals as well as students, are invited to submit their images. Entries chosen for display will be exhibited at the New Hope Center in Oak Ridge between November 9 and December 3, 2015. The community re-
ception and gallery walk will and a new category for this be held on Friday evening, year: Science and Technology. Selected prints from the November 13. Salon will be shown at the American Museum of SciPhotographers may ence and Energy for enter digital imextended times. ages, color prints or black/white Digital images can prints in ten be brought to the categories. AniCCOR club meetmals, Architecture, ing on Tuesday, OcBotanical, Creative tober 13 at Roane Development, Creative Vision, Inanimate Objects, State Community College, Landscape, People, Scenic City Room, Oak Ridge or be submitted by email between September 21 and October 13 to ccor.di.entries@gmail. com. Mounted prints will be accepted at New Hope Center on October 30 from 10am to 5pm and October 31 from 10am to 2pm. For the 2015 Salon rules with information about categories, schedule, entry fees and submission procedure visit www. cameraclubofoakridge.org.
U.T. Arboretum Society Fall Plant Sale able rainfall, and the fact that plants are devoting all their resources to developing a stronger root system, rather than putting energy into their top growth, will give them a head start in the spring and a Fall is the ideal time to add much better survival rate. plants to the landscape. Milder temperatures, more depend- Beaver Creek Nursery, East Fork Nursery, Riverdale Nursery, Sunlight Gardens, as well as the UT Arboretum Society’s members and friends will offer a variety of high quality plants. Dr. Will Witte, the Society’s “Answer Man,” will be there to answer all of your plant questions. Dano’s Hot Dogs will have his popular dogs and lemonade. The UT Arboretum Society’s Fall Plant Sale will be Saturday, October 17 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at the U.T. Arboretum, 901 S. Illinois Avenue in Oak Ridge.
Sale proceeds and other Society events go to support and secure the future of the UT Arboretum in Oak Ridge.
During the chariot scene in “Ben Hur,” a small red car can be seen in the distance.
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Ignored Heroes by Richard Cook In Anderson County, and especially in Oak Ridge, we are intimately familiar with the Manhattan Project and its history. We are surrounded by it and reminded of our area’s extraordinary beginnings as a city. When compared and contrasted to other iconic war
heroes and tales, the Manhattan Project is often ignored and sometimes even frowned upon by the world at large. It is understandable, since we played a part in unleashing
a force that would decimate thousands of lives in an instant and forever change our notions of security. But as local author Richard Cooke points out in his book, Ignored Heroes, we forget the decimation that force prevented.
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Melissa Bishop that it resurrects what living in that time and place was really like. It addresses the scope of international circumstances, but also takes an intimate look at what daily life was all about for the people who lived it because it comes from the mouths of those who were there.
Ignored Heroes is a compilation of over 230 quotes pulled from oral histories taken from dozens of people who lived and worked in Oak Ridge during World War II. It is unique in
It took Cook 15 months to research and compile the photographs and oral histories for Ignored Heroes. His greatest resource was the the Center for Oak Ridge Oral Histories(COROH). It is home to over 450 oral histories about Oak Ridge from the 1940’s to the present day. “All of those interviews are available online,” Cook said. “Without those oral histories, there would be no Oak Ridge story to tell.”
The stories range from the idyllic life of children growing up in a closed city, who had the freedom to roam the streets all day and even at night. It tells of the impromptu street parties that ended up with drinks and dancing and even gives specific street names to where they occurred. But this was the sunny side of things, or rather the white side. The living conditions and restrictions for the black workers were much different, complete with housing that was barely adequate to the enforced curfew and segregation of men and women, including those who were married. All of the stories are vivid memories that practically conjure ghosts on the very streets we modern locals pass through every day. The majority of the photographs are from the archives of Ed Westcott. During the project, cameras were not
allowed within Oak Ridge city limits and without his documentation, the story would have very little if any visual backdrop. The book is titled for the very phenomenon of how the world reflects on The Manhattan Project and contrasts it with pervasive views on other aspects of the war. The difference is glaring. On the cover of Ignored Heroes is an image of a woman named (See ‘Heroes’ on page 18)
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
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Heroes (Continued from page 17) “Wendy the Welder” because her identity is a mystery. Cook compares her to “Rosie the Riveter,” whose image is for sale on calendars, buttons, key chains, refrigerator magnets, t-shirts, ball caps, coffee mugs, thermos bottles and bobble head dolls. White polka dotted bandanas can be bought too. Rosie is a historic, iconic, heroic image from World War II. Yet her work was building B-24 bombers, responsible for the loss of over 260,000 lives in Europe
and Japan. As Cook says in his book, “Rosie and Wendy share a common storyline, but our treatment of them couldn’t be more different. Rosie is celebrated while Wendy’s story has been thrown on the trash heap of history. We don’t think about the implications of Rosie building B-24 bombers. With Wendy, we tie an atomic bomb around her neck and turn away with contempt.” In Ignored Heroes, Cook does not claim that the loss of civilian life was a good thing, but he puts the Manhattan Project back into the context of the necessity of its success against the continued and massive amount of casualties of the war and the fact that Hitler also had a nuclear program. The whole of Europe was in danger of the Germans completing the project first. In his book, Cook says, “From the end of the war until the mid-1960’s Americans had a more complicated attitude toward the bombing because they had the direct experience of World War II. They openly acknowledged the horrific nature of the bombings, but they knew it avoided something far
more horrific: an American invasion of Japan which was to begin on November 1, 1945. The casualty estimates for both sides would dwarf the sad events of August 6th and 9th of 1945. The perspective during that time was what I call
remorseful gratitude.”
the oral histories. The book is available only on Amazon as Ignored Heroes is available an eBook. The price is $13.99 as an eBook on Amazon. It plus sales tax if applicable. is 267 pages and is an oral history of Oak Ridge during Pictured are Richard Cook the war. There are also over and the cover of his book. 120 photos to compliment
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Karoke means “empty orchestra” in Japanese.
Arts (Continued from page 14) tions, classes, and other Art Center activities, call (865) 482-1441 or visit their FaceBook page or website at www. oakridgeartcenter.org.
Our wonderful Music Arts School continues to offer opportunities for those individuals interested in learning to play an instrument or for any current musician wanting to learn a few new skills. Visit their website at www.musi-
cartsschool.org The Oak Ridge Community Band’s next performance is Monday, September 7 for its annual Labor Day Concert at 7:00 p.m., A.K. Bissell Park and features music dedicated
to all workers. Razzleberry’s Saturday, 2015, September Ice Cream Lab will provide 26 - 7:30pm at the Oak Ridge refreshments. This concert traditionally draws large crowds, so come early for good seating. For more information call 865-482-3568 or visit www.orcb.org. The Oak Ridge Civic Music Association’s next concert is titled “Merry Olde England”!Haydn’s last symphony (No. 104) is known as the London Symphony and was composed in that city in 1795. Haydn taught both Beethoven and Mozart, and invented the modern string quartet and symphony, so many feel that he is the ultimate composer. The featured work will be Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, his last notable work that was composed in the aftermath or World War 1. The underrehearsed first performance was a disaster, and not until Jacqueline Du Pré’s performance did it become popular. The soloist will be Wesley Baldwin, who is well-known to Oak Ridge Symphony audiences. Fanfare magazine said: “If I had to sum up Baldwin’s playing in a single word, it would have to be phenomenal. His technique seemingly knows no bounds, for much of this music is very difficult, and a good deal of it lies very high in the cello’s register. Yet there is no sense of stress or strain as Baldwin’s tone pours forth from his instrument like liquid gold. It’s as challenging to make the cello sound beautiful high up on its A string as it is to make the violin sound beautiful high up on its G string. But Baldwin manages to draw the purest and sweetest sounds with his bow, and hits every note with pitch-perfect intonation.” To complete the program, Seth Maples will lead the Oak Ridge Symphony and Chorus in two two English Choral pieces. Performance is set for
High School Performing Arts Center located at 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge. For more information contact ORCMA at: 865-483-5569 or E-mail: office@orcma.org.
For further information about any of these exciting events, contact the Arts Council Office at 482-4432 or visit the ACOR website at www.artscouncilofoakridge.org. If you have a smartphone or tablet download our free app to keep updated. Search Oak Ridge Arts Council to find the app.
About the author...
Jim Dodson is the contributing writer for the Arts Council of Oak Ridge and can be reached at 865-256-2580 or via his email: jdodsonart@ aol.com.
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Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
The Excellent Flavors at Los Caballeros Los Caballeros has been a favorite Mexican dining destination in Clinton since 2001. It has been so popular, in fact, that owner Felisimo Garcia has felt the need to expand and make it easier for the rest of Anderson County to experience his menu and the excel-
lent flavors to be found within it. Now the second Los Caballeros is open in Oak Ridge at 1140 Oak Ridge Turnpike. The building has been through some renovations, both inside and out, but Los Caballeros is now officially open and welcoming customers with a smile and the complimentary chips and salsa which was the first thing that tipped me
off to the fact that I was in for a delicious treat. The salsa was perfection: not too spicy, but garlicy, and just enough cilantro. I could have eaten it even without the fresh, crispy tortilla chips.
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If you would like more than the ner, take advantage of one of their happy hour specials. Beer is just $.99 with the purchase of a meal during happy hour which runs from 3:00 to 8:00 every day. And if you are dining with the family, a kid’s meal is just $.99 with the purchase of a regular adult entree and a drink from their selections of imported or domestic beer, margarita, or fountain drink or iced tea.
chips and exceptional salsa for starters, try their shrimp nachos or one of their many appetizer dips to choose from. The menu offers all the classic dishes from the Clinton location, such as taquitos and, what Felisimo says is a customer favorite, The Super Pollo, which is grilled chicken with squash, mushrooms, on top of rice with melted cheese. If you are stopping in for din-
The classic Mexican drinks are on the menu such as Dos Equis, Negro Modelo, and Corona as well as our domestic varieties of Budweiser and Coors. And because getting a liquor license in Tennessee is not easy, the new Los Caballeros opened without the ability to offer margaritas, but as of the beginning of September, the classic drink that draws us to all Mexican restaurants is on the menu. If you are in a lunch rush, grab a lunch burrito. It’s a complete meal, stuffed with ground beef, shredded cheese, and
onion sauce, lettuce, sour cream, and tomatoes and comes with rice. Whether you are short on time for lunch or dinner, Los Caballeros offers carry out options for your family or entire office. I mentioned the delicious salsa, but the red sauce that is served over many dishes such as the chili relleno, enchilada, or burrito is a complex blend of rich and slightly sweet sauce. I
do not know what their secret ingredient is, but it carries the taste of homemade. If you are not a carnivore and are looking for a place that caters to the vegetarian diet, Los Cabelleros has a variety of dishes for you such as vegetarian quesadillas or fajitas. They also have bean burritos or tacos and their beans are made with vegetable oils in(See ‘Caballeros’ on page 47)
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Norris Lake Project Team hosting “Island Invasion” Cleanup The Norris Lake Project Team will be hosting an “Island Invasion” on this year’s National Public Lands Day, September 26, 2015 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Team has conducted a biannual Five County Norris Lake Cleanup in September since 2011 but this year there will be a concentrated focus on the islands in the Loyston Sea area in Anderson and Union Counties and the islands near Lonas Young Park in Campbell County, hence the name “Island Invasion.” “Since 2011, volunteers from the counties surrounding Norris Lake have picked up over 15 tons of trash,” said Stephanie Wells, Director of the Anderson County Tourism Council. “We have typically focused on the public launches and State Parks throughout the five counties but this year we want to focus on the islands which are popular camping spots and common places that debris washes up.” The islands in the Loyston Sea area that the group will invade are Pilot Island, Wood
Duck Island, Bear Hole Island and Baker Island. The launch point for the Loyston Sea side of the lake will be at Big Ridge State Park and the
free “Island Invader” t-shirt and a free lunch. “We conduct these cleanups to not only clean up the illegally dumped trash but to also raise public awareness,” said Julie Graham, Executive Director of East Tennessee Quality Growth. “We want to encourage boaters, campers and other users of the lake to dispose of their trash properly and eliminate the need for these cleanups.”
Several agencies and organizations such as the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency and Tennessee Valley Authority will be on hand to educate participants on preservation, conservation, There will be boats available safety, recycling, etc. to shuttle volunteers to and from the islands and barges The Norris Lake Project will be used to transfer the Team is a grassroots effort trash back to the shore. How- of individuals, organizations, ever, volunteers are welcome businesses and agencies to bring their own boats. All to preserve the water qualvolunteers are encouraged to ity of Norris Lake, conserve wear appropriate shoes, pref- the land surrounding the lake erably boots, bring gloves and encourage the stakeholders of the lake to do and bring a life jacket. their part in keeping Norris Volunteers will be able to Lake the cleanest and saftrade their trash bags for a est recreational asset in Anlaunch point for the Campbell County side is at Lonas Road Park. Volunteers can register and get assigned a location at these launch points.
derson, Campbell, Claiborne, If you are interested in volGrainger and Union Coun- unteering, visit www.norristies. lakeproject.com to register and get more information. National Public Lands Day Volunteers can also register is the nation’s largest sin- the morning of September gle-day volunteer effort for 26th. Please note that minors public lands. In 2014, about must be accompanied by an 175,000 volunteers worked adult and have a registration at 2,132 sites in every state and release form signed by a on public lands to remove parent. You can also call toll invasive plants, plant native free to 800-524-3602 or email plants, build and maintain info@yallcome.org for more trails and remove over 500 information. tons of trash.
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Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
A Madcap Farce; ‘The Fox on the Fairway’ Now through Saturday, October 10, Cumberland County Playhouse presents a madcap adventure about love, life, and man’s eternal love affair with golf, The Fox on the Fairway! Written by Ken Ludwig (Crazy for You, Lend Me A Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo), The Fox on the Fairway pulls the rug out from under the stuffy members of a posh country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and overthe-top romantic shenanigans, it’s a fast-paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers’ classics. This hysterical comedy is sure to be a hit with everyone who loved Suite Surrender or The Foreigner! Bingham (Jason Ross), president of the Quail Valley Country Club, is in a difficult position. The golfer he thought would play for his club been recruited by his cocky and arrogant competitor Dickie (Britt Hancock) and switched sides. Now the huge bet he had foolishly wagered is likely to be lost. Fortunately, he discovers
that that his newly hired hand catches him much too close to Justin (Chance Wall) is quite Pamela (Weslie Webster), his a good golfer and finagles his hot-blooded vice-president. nomination. Justin does not Directing the show for the Playhouse is Donald Fann, whose previous CCP directorial assignments include Dearly Departed, Duck Hunter Shoots Angel and The Miracle Worker.
disappoint and has a huge lead, when the tournament is interrupted by bad weather. Meanwhile, Justin learns that his fiancée Louise (Lindsey Mapes) has lost the engagement ring he gave her (she accidentally flushed it down the toilet) and comes unglued. The game resumes the next day, but Justin loses the lead, and, upset, takes an unfortunate swing, breaking his arm. Bingham is desperate, and the appearance of his wife (Lauren Marshall) only complicates matters when she
Can Bingham find a replacement for Justin to win the game, win the wager, and get his life in order? You’ll have your chance to find out August 6 through October 16. The Fox on the Fairway is sponsored by Good Times Wine, Spirits & Brew and is rated PG-13 for mature subject matter. Currently at the Playhouse: A
Chorus Line, rated PG-13, co-sponsored by Fairfield Glade Resort, Cumberland County Bank and Cameron Sexton, and Smoke on the Mountain, rated G, sponsored by Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, through October 10. Upcoming: The Foreigner, rated G, co-sponsored by Stanley Bise, M.D. and Dr, Anthony Wilson, September 4 through November 5.
Cumberland County Playhouse Tickets and information are also available for Southern Stars Symphonic Brass and other events at (931) 4845000 or www.ccplayhouse. com. All CCP productions are made possible through generous sponsor and donor support, with additional support from the Tennessee Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by law to be blind.
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Of all the words in the English language, the word “SET� has the most definitions.
PEZ candy even comes in a Coffee flavor.
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“Acts of Kindness in Anderson County” In Anderson County... What if NO Children were Hungry? What if EVERY child had no fear of mistreatment or abuse? What if every teenager had a mentor to help them navigate a course for their future?
County and with your help we can make a positive change Local Arts in the lives of so many of our friends and neighbors living in our community. This year, Jim along with Gene Patterson, I’ll be co-chairing the United Dodson Way of Anderson County’s annual campaign to raise cies supported by the UWAC. awareness and funds that
What if every student graduated high school and was able to attend college? What if every senior citizen had the help they needed to live a happy and fulfilled life? And... What if all of these help so many. Each month during the campaign, I will things were possible? share with you my impresThese are the goals of the sions during visits to several United Way of Anderson of the 33 community agen-
This past week I visited two incredible agencies responsible for providing services to thousands in our county. My first visit was to the Emory Valley Center who’s motto is “Maximizing Human Abilities”. The center’s mission is to enhance the lives of children, adults, and families in an environment that promotes independence, dignity, and respect. On the day I visited, we toured the facility and I witnessed a community of young and older people working together in a spirit of respect and cooperation.
Many of the adults shared in responsibilities of the facilities and the volunteers and staff were well trained and very knowledgable as they explained programs ranging from Early Intervention to the Early Learning Center. As a school teacher, I see how crucial programs are that meet the needs of families with developmental delays or diagnosed medical conditions. These programs really are essential to helping these special citizens live a healthy and happy life. The center also provides assistance to over 490 families in Anderson County through this service. The second area I visited at the EVC was the Early Learning Center. The purpose of this program is to provide preschool assistance for children from six weeks of age until
kindergarten. The children in the program were happy and engaged in learning activities while being supervised by highly trained and caring staff. For more information on the Emory Valley Center please contact Crystal Hicks, Vice President of Operations at crystal.hicks@emoryvalleycenter.com or visit their website www.emoryvalleycenter.com. The second stop on my visit that day was to Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties or ADFAC. As our group entered the warehouse, we were overwhelmed by the sheer number of shelves housing school supplies. Executive director Annie Cacheiro and volunteer Becky Hook greeted us for the tour. An(See ‘Kindness’ on page 33)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
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Avoid Problems by Updating Beneficiary Designations Like many people, you might not particularly enjoy thinking about your estate plans, but such planning is necessary to make sure your assets go where you want them to go. And it’s just as important to regularly review your plans with your tax, legal and financial professionals in case any changes are needed. For instance, some of your wishes expressed in your will may be overridden by beneficiary designations you filled out years
ago. If these designations become outdated, your assets could be passed to those you didn’t intend.
a change in your life.
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Here’s one more thing to keep in mind: Make sure your current beneficiaries are informed Karl You might be surprised at how that they will eventually be remany of your financial assets ceiving your 401(k), IRA, life Flatau and legal documents have insurance proceeds or other beneficiary designations tied need to follow. But if you are assets that require a bento them. If you have an IRA, like many people, you eficiary designation. This a 401(k) or other employer- might forget to update advance knowledge may sponsored retirement plan, these designations help your loved ones as a life insurance policy, an after a marriage, they plan and maintain annuity, a transfer-on-death divorce or other their own financial and (TOD) arrangement, or any c h a n g e i n y o u r investment strategies. of a variety of other assets or family situation. And Although it’s clearly accounts, you almost certainly because the benefiimportant for you to named a beneficiary. And this ciary designation is update your benbeneficiary designation offers a legally binding eficiary desiga simple, direct and efficient document, the nations and to way to get assets in the hands asset will go communicate of your loved ones who sur- to the person your actions, you once vive you. you will still named as a need to atHowever, as time goes by, beneficiary, tend to other you may experience many regardless of areas of your changes in your life — and your current relaestate planning, such when your life changes, your tionship status. as providing care for minor beneficiary designations may children or dependents, decidIt really doesn’t take much effort to look over your accounts and legal arrangements to ensure that your beneficiary designations are current — and if they aren’t, it’s pretty easy to change them. In fact, for some financial accounts, you may be able to update the beneficiary designations online. In any case, plan on reviewing your beneficiary designations regularly, but especially when you experience
ing who you want to receive specific items that do not carry a beneficiary designation, naming someone to manage your affairs should you become incapacitated, and specifying the control you wish your beneficiaries to have over their inheritance. These are just a few examples of estateplanning considerations. Because everyone’s situation is different, you will need to consult with your legal advisor to determine the level of estate planning you require. As we’ve seen, updating your beneficiary is one piece of the puzzle — but to leave the legacy you desire, you’ve got to complete the picture.
About the author... Karl Flatau is a Financial Advisor with Edward Jones in Oak Ridge. He can be reached for questions and comments at 483-3643.
Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.
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The Key to Vitality, Health and Productivity If I told you one simple habit could change your life, would you do it? Does the promise of more energy, mental focus, productivity and patience entice you? Are you ready to enjoy a greater degree of health and h a p p i n e s s ? The key to unlocking the best in each of us turns around one daily routine—sleep.
that comes our way as our “to-do” list stretches longer than the Nile. On the other hand, we seek after mindless entertainment often into the wee hours of each night. Seeking distraction or fulfillment, we are drawn into the chatter of blue-light emitting electronics that mock us with made-up “reality” and virtual courage. Instead of cultivating real relationships,
Simple, yet increasingly complex, sleep has become more elusive as we chase after one of two things. On one hand, we burn the midnight oil in order to accomplish more and keep up with the demands of our crazy lives, serving on boards and committees, saying “yes” to every request
we s t a y up late to catch up with our 1,032 virtual friends. We are now sleeping less than ever. In fact, the average American now gets only 6.8 hours of sleep and a whopping 40% get 6 hours or less. As a
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Heidi Greenhalgh point of comparison, in 1942, 84% got 8 hours of sleep each night. Sleep deprivation can have some scary side effects. In addition to feeling groggy, short-tempered and nursing a constant headache, one study found that adults who regularly slept fewer than six hours a night had four times the risk of stroke symptoms. Another found that those who slept the least have the highest insulin resistance as well as other hormonal imbalances that affect weight gain. Multiple studies support the link between sleep deprivation and obesity. Adequate sleep suppresses your hunger hormone, ghrelin and ensures adequate amounts of another hormone, leptin, which helps balance food intake. Less than adequate sleep equals hello Midnight Buffet! In addition to hormone fluctuations, experience tells us we make poor food choices when we are tired. And science has recently uncovered a fascinat-
ing fact about sleep and the brain. The brain uses sleep time, when other functions are on the back burner, to clean out toxic waste accumulated during the day. While the rest of the body uses the lymphatic system to clear out waste, the brain is shut off from this system via the blood-brain barrier. Instead it uses cerebrospinal fluid to wash out the brain and researchers found this cleansing process to be ten times more active during sleep than wakefulness.
and learning a few things along the way. The first thing I’ve learned is that eight hours of sleep night after night feels awesome! Consistency is essential. One night of eight hours of sleep followed by five nights of five hours of sleep won’t get you the vitality you desire, it will merely keep you alive.
Next lesson learned: Consistency is hard when you live with others who haven’t come around to the “sleep early” mentality. Also, I have preWith all these reasons to cious little self-control when sleep, I for one, am fighting it comes to shutting down to regain my vitality, one pre- my activities at nighttime. I cious sleep minute at a time (See ‘Key’ on page 29)
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Every few years, I am besieged by nostalgia as I recall the adventurous things I did in my youth. Sometimes I forget how old I really am and foolishly arrange an activity no longer suitable for my aging body. This is how I ended up at the riding stables at Fontana Lake Resort with two younger friends, both experienced riders. I’d done a little horseback riding in New Mexico as a teenager, and I couldn’t wait to climb on a horse again. My friends easily mounted their horses. Then it was my turn. I craned my neck at my horse, a sorrel with gigantic hooves that looked 60 hands high. My head didn’t even reach
“I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Bruno, Bigfoot, Bad Choices his shoulder. He could have carried the giant in “Jack and the Beanstalk.” I nicknamed him Bigfoot. This was not the standard size horse I had expected to ride. Even when I climbed onto a wooden stand, I could barely reach the stirrup to mount Bigfoot. I slung my right leg over his broad back and gazed down from m y perch. The ground
Judy Jabber Judy DiGregorio on the reins, he stubbornly returned to the same spot. Perhaps he had previously worked as a tightrope walker in the circus and enjoyed the sense of danger. Bigfoot stumbled often as he lurched along precariously close to the ravine. I imagined my body flattened like road kill as he rolled over me once or twice.
My friends chattered amicably as we meandered down the trail. I did not chatter; my teeth did. I was acutely aware that my spirit of adventure had overpowered my common sense. What was “Ready, Judy?” my friends I doing astride this behemoth? asked. “Oh, sure,” I squeaked. All was peaceful and quiet except for the squeaking of We sauntered down a narrow the saddle and the squawking dirt trail that wound around the of the blue jays. As the horses resort area. Bigfoot avoided clip-clopped down the road, the middle of the road and a brown and white basset ambled along the edge next hound suddenly appeared. to a steep canyon. No matter He flew straight at me and how many times I pulled back Bigfoot barking ferociously. was a long way off and looked rocky and hard as concrete. I began to have second and third thoughts about the ride.
Bigfoot did not like the barking. Neither did I. Bigfoot snorted loudly. I screamed loudly as Bigfoot reared and bucked, flailing at the hound with his hooves. I clung desperately to the saddle horn and reins and Bigfoot’s mane as he flung me from side to side. This was not a horse ride. This was a bucking bronco event, and I hadn’t signed up for it.
a rag doll across his neck, too exhausted to move. After a brief recuperation period, we resumed our ride, and Bigfoot resumed his position on the edge of the ravine. When we finally made it back to the stables, I felt like kissing the ground beneath me.
Luckily, the hound’s owner emerged shortly from the woods. “Stop, Bruno, stop,” he yelled. “Get yourself over here.” Eventually, Bruno responded and trotted back to his owner. Bigfoot watched him nervously while I lay like
Judy is a local humorist and speaker and the author of Life Among the Lilliputians, Memories of a Loose Woman, and Jest Judy (CD). This column is reprinted from Life Among the Lilliputians with permission of Celtic Cat Publishing.
If you pay attention in life, you learn something every day. On that day I learned I was no “Hang on, Judy,” yelled my longer interested in horseback friends as Bigfoot and I thun- riding. dered past them. About the author...
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Key (Continued from page 27) recognize that and am taking steps to problem-solve through it. I am an object in motion that wants to stay in motion. In the morning, I am
an object at rest that wants to stay at rest. I am learning how wind down earlier, plan better, leave dishes in the sink, and say no to events that keep us out past bedtime. Occasional is OK, nightly is not. Not an easy task, but one I’m getting
Your Home Magazine, September 2015, Page 29 better at. Benjamin Franklin’s adage, “Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” is famous for a reason.
for me are: Use Your Smart Phone Smarter: I have started setting an alarm on my phone that reminds me to go to bed. I don’t always follow it, but on In addition, some of the bed- average I’ve been going to time routine strategies working bed an hour earlier with that silly reminder popping up night after night. After only a week of going to bed at an earlier bedtime, I actually woke up before my morning alarm a couple of times. My own internal alarm clock, back on track! Break Away From Media. Studies show that blue light emitted from electronic devices can actually tell your brain it is morning, so resolve not to look at your phone, tablet, computer or television in the hour or minutes leading up to bedtime. Like you, I check the weather, I check the news, I check email, I watch movie trailers. After a certain time of night, it’s all a waste of time that keeps my brain revved, rather than relaxed. F i n d Yo u r B e d t i m e b y Counting Backwards. I”f you’re striving for eight hours of sleep every night and need to be up by 5:30 am each
morning to make it to work by 7 am, stop kidding yourself into thinking you can go to bed at 11 pm each night. You can’t. Your eyeballs need to shut by 9:30 pm every night which means you need to start winding down and start the bedtime routine by 8:30 pm and planning for the next day should start even earlier. Sound extreme? Feeling wellrested is a huge motivator to shut down earlier.
Establish a Bedtime Routine. Remember the childhood days when the bedtime routine started after dinner and consisted of a warm bath, hot cocoa, a story and a snuggle with someone you love? There is wisdom to be had in that past and it’s worth shooting for. Every night.
About the author... Heidi Greenhalgh, M.S. works as a Health Educator at RN Fit Weight Management. In addition to coaching clients through their weight loss journey as they make permanent lifestyle changes, she also publishes articles on health, wellness and provident living.
Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
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“Buy Low - Sell High” - Not Just a Cliche’! OK - so you already know that “Buy low - sell high” is a workable strategy. How, then, do you identify the property with the lowest potential purchase price? There are two sources of pricing information. Both are available to the general public, and both may be available online. The first is current asking prices for the type property you are seeking. The second is accurate recent sale prices that other sellers have accepted. The difference between the two can be significant. As an example, in my sister’s local market in the North Carolina mountains, the average asking price for raw land over 50 acres in Watauga County, as of November 21, 2008, was $39,408 per acre, while the average selling price in ‘08 has been around $7,500/acre. The average asking price for the adjoining county, Wilkes County,
was $7,382/acre, while the average selling price in ‘08 was $4,505/acre. See what I mean about asking vs. selling prices? Learning both asking and selling prices is relatively simple. For the first, asking prices, open a website for a reputable local real estate company and look for properties listed in the local MLS. Most brokers will have not only their own property listings, but also a link to all properties listed in the local MLS (Multiple Listing Service).
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are looking for the site that is a “GIS” site for property in your county. Many of these sites allow you to “query” for more information, i.e. “all properties over 100 acres that have sold in the current year”. If your county offers this service, you’ll have a list of all properties recently sold as indicated by 1) their sale price and 2) their date of sale. As before, enter all available information on these properties into an Excel spreadsheet, and let it calculate the average sale price per acre.
calculate the total acreage, total asking price, and average asking price per acre. Bingo, you now know all you need to know about asking prices. The second thing you need is actual selling prices for large parcels - over 100 acres in the past 12-24 months. Once you find your way into the T h e r e a r e t w o p o t e n t i a l If no GIS is available for your MLS listings, get specific as to sources for this information. county, or it doesn’t allow you what type properties you would to “query” by size and sale like to see. For example, choose First, look online. Try googling date, you can go directly to a category entitled “Farms’ or “[county name, state, GIS”. You your county tax office. Ask for “Land” over 100 acres. There usually won’t be many. Enter any available information about all of these properties, i.e. location, features, price, etc., into an Excel spreadsheet. Let the spreadsheet
either a printout or a CD with the following fields included: 1) owner name, 2) address, 3) sale date, 4) acreage over 100, 5) sale price, 6) deed book/ page where recorded, and 7) tax value. Using the information provided, create a table with the data provided and handcalculate the needed figures. You now know the average asking and selling prices. From this information, isolate properties currently for sale that fall at or below the average sale price per acre for the current year. At the very least, determine which are priced below the average current asking price.
(See ‘Buy Low’ on page 37)
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A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Oak Ridge Rowing Association (ORRA) Anyone from around the Oak Ridge area is familiar with the Oak Ridge Rowing Association (ORRA) and the floods of rowers they attract to the beautiful waterfront each spring and summer. The long
regional championships. The organization has a long standing history of excellence, and continues to grow and evolve, as evidenced in recent announcements.
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Naomi Asher Rowing” will now encompass the junior and masters programs at the Melton Hill Lake boathouse.
standing organization is one the country’s premier venues for Rowing Training Camps and has been the host to US Rowing National Championships, NCAA Championships and many conference and
To unify the branding of the growing ORRA rowing programs, Jim Rogers, ORRA Board of Directors Vice President announced during the August 21st Open Boathouse event that the moniker “Atomic
Additional improvements and exciting changes are also being made including a new boat purchase: the Bow Cox 4 - a sleek racing shell - Rogers also announced. Progress is being made toward an additional rowing lane which will open the organization up to eligibility for more national and even, international competitions. The docks have recently been upgraded and the process of adding wifi capabilities along the course is currently being pursued - which is very advantageous for races and will further support the overall attractiveness of the Oak Ridge waterfront to additional rowing competitions. Even more change comes in the form of new head coach, Shannon Moore. Other coaches include Evelyn Radford, Ryan Worth and Kelly Krais. ORRA helps participants of all
ages and abilities gain huge tive or recreational. “We have benefits from the sport. folks here competing as Masters between the ages of Youth Novice Rowing is of- 20 to 80”, says Julia White, fered to participants Masters Rower and between 12 and 18 ORRA Board Memyears old where they ber. Adult programs will learn complete improve parrowing fundaticipant’s rowing mentals in a youth skills and fitness setting. The Adult level as well as Novice and Learn providing an ento Row classes will gaging and positive accommodate indisocial environment. viduals of all abilities and are offered each spring and sum- For many, rowing is a hobby, mer. Adult rowers can then passion, or an escape as well go to Masters and choose as a fantastic form of aerobic the type of rowing that best exercise! Donna Lusinger, fits their goals and interests Masters Rower, enthusiasti- this could mean competi(See ‘Rowing’ on page 36)
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Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Recipes; Looking Forward to the Fall Season What a year this has been. So many of our shrubs, trees, etc. were damaged by the snow and ice. I’m sure everyone lost something. We had a few blueberries but not much else survived to produce fruit. Grapes had plenty of fruit, but fell off before ready to eat. Froze my hydrangeas again but most have come back out-just no big flowers this summer. A large white one survived at the back of house and I’m sure warmth from brick kept it from freezing. A camellia lost some leaves and frozen buds but some bloomed.
Something I never lose in summer are my tall marigolds. Let’s This summer I did. So no Cook! orange and gold blooms this fall. The deer herd that comes around our house decided they were tasty - so they ate them! The flowers are always in the same bed in front Fried Zucchini of house and have 1/4 cup dry bread crumbs never been both- 2 TBS Parmesan, grated ered before. 2 TBS. flour 1 tsp. salt O h w e l l , 2 cups thinly sliced zucchini t h e r e ’ s strips always a 1 egg, beaten well next time. 2-4 TBS. oil Combine first four ingredients, I’ll share mixed together in a paper a few fall bag. Dip squash in egg, then recipes and shake in bag. Fry in hot oil until hope you enjoy them. both sides brown and crispy. Easy Apple Pie 1 cup sugar 1/2 stick melted margarine 2 eggs The deer will have no abun- 1 tsp. cinnamon dance of pears this year - al- 1-1/2 cups apples, sliced ways a draw to the back yard. 1 unbaked pie shell I’m hoping apple crops survived for us to enjoy this Beat together first 4 ingredifall. It’s time to head to the ents. Pour into unbaked pie orchards close by or over to shell. Top with sliced apples. Asheville area to see if they Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 are selling them. The orchard minutes. on the Blue Ridge Parkway hopefully survived the unusual Late fall vegetables are comcold. Haven’t heard anything ing in so if you have zucfrom the Crossville area. chini left here is an interesting recipe.
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Apple Cake 1/4 cup shortening 2/3 cup sugar 2 beaten eggs 2 cups plain flour 1 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 2 cups apples, peeled, coarsely grated 1 TBS. grated lemon peel 2/3 cup chopped nuts Cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy; beat in eggs. Sift 3 dry ingredients. Add alternately with apples to egg mixture. Stir in lemon rind and nuts. Bake in floured and greased 9x5x2inch loaf pan in preheated 350 degree oven about 40-50 min-
I’ve shared this next recipe before but it is just too good and easy to share again if you haven’t tried it. Apple Crescents 1/2 cup sugar
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Kindness (Continued from page 25) nie began by talking about some of the services ADFAC provides. From helping with utility bills for qualifying families to assistance finding a down payment for a home, they have been working to
provide a hand up rather than a hand out since 1987. The goal of the organization is to help families become stable and self-sufficient through a variety of direct assistance services provided by Social Services and Affordable Housing programs. Becky Hook explained that she had been working with the school
supplies program for over three years and this year ADFAC had been able to provide backpacks filled with school supplies to over 2,800 children from Clinton to Oak Ridge and throughout our region!
Your Home Magazine, September 2015, Page 33 so many services that help families in our community live a happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives. I look forward to bringing these stories of hope to you each month as the United Way of Anderson County begins it giving campaign.
Both of these local agencies Please join in the support by are responsible for providing attending “The Taste of Anderson County” on September 19 in Historic Jackson Square from 4-9pm. Proceeds benefit UWAC and the Free Medical Clinic.
For further information please contact United Way of Anderson County at http://uwayac. org. Or call (865) 483-8431 Office Hours: Monday to Friday – 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Email: director@uwayac.org
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Jim Dodson is the Co-Chairperson for the 2015 United Way of Anderson County and can be reached at 865-2562580 or via his email: jdodsonart@aol.com.
United Way Benefit Concert October 30th! Emi Sunshine with Handsome and the Humbles! United Way of Anderson County has a benefit concert coming up on October 30th! Emi Sunshine with Handsome and the Humbles! It’s impossible to explain the exceptional talents of EmiSunshine, a 10-year-old East Tennessee prodigy who has captured the nation’s attention as a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Steeped in Appalachian music, she is a true vocal stylist, one who instinctively knows how to interpret the nuances of a song with her impressive range, even though she has yet to gain the life experience and empathy seemingly necessary to fully comprehend the words she sings.
United Way is so excited to highlight such a talented young performer with this concert! She has recently performed with Willie Nelson and for Austin City Limits!! This concert will be ushering in the popular Pumpkin Fest back by popular demand - in Grove Center!
Show starts at 7pm, Doors open at 6pm, $15 for adults, $5 for children 12 and under. Tickets available at The Ferrell Shop, Razzleberries, The Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, United Way of Anderson County Sponsored by United Way of Anderson County, The Other One, and Precision Printing.
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A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.
A Colorful Piece of History in these Southern Mountains All our lives we natives of Southeastern Kentucky, East Tennessee, and West Virginia have heard about the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys. But do we know what started it? While referencing another subject I ran across one ver-
sion of it from the West Virginia Archives and History. Here is an abbreviated account of the now famous saga. The Hatfields lived on the Kentucky side of the Tug river while the McCoys lived on the West Virginia side. Both families were large, 13 kids each. And the boys in each family were wild and rowdy and usually bruising for a fight. In 1873, two brothers-in-law had a lawsuit over a sow and some pigs. Rand’l McCoy claimed the hogs but Floyd Hatfield said they were his’n. But the hogs went to Hatfield. Witnesses were accused of lying in Squire Hatfield’s court which was held in his house. From then on, it was plain to
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Seivers see that the devil was to pay sooner or later. A man with only one eye and half sense could see that. August 7, 1882 fell on a Monday and they were having an election. If you are up on the history of elections in these parts, you are well acquainted with the fact that elections are usually occasions on which anything can happen. Drinking was rife that day and those with old grudges were
carrying chips on their shoulders. It seems everyone was looking for trouble. Beneath a big tree was a table and about it sat the election officials. Suddenly an open quarrel flared up back under other trees at the rear of the polling spot. It seems that Tol- b e r t McCoy, 31, had jumped “Bad Lias” Hatfield to pay him the dollar seventyfive he owed him for a fiddle he had sold him. To l b e r t ’ s t w o b r o t h e r s , Phamer and Randolph McCoy, Jr. joined in the quarrel
and backed up their brother Tolbert. At this juncture, up jumped Ellison Hatfield, drunk, and in a foul mood. Tolbert told him “I’m Hell on earth.” A fight ensued and Ellison Hatfield was stabbed and shot. Guns leaped from pockets and other shots were fired in anger. Those three McCoy b o y s , P h a m e r, Randolph, and Tolbert were arrested and taken to Pikeville jail but Ellison’s b r o t h e r, A n s e Hatfield, and his friends took them away from the law officers. (See ‘Mts. on page 35)
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women. set aside. Cut each apple into and cinnamon mixture over all and add water around each. 8 wedges. Bake for about 30 minutes (Continued from page 32) 1 tsp. cinnamon Separate rolls and cut each and serve warm with vanilla 2 large apples, pared into two triangles. This makes ice cream. 1 can crescent rolls 16 long triangles. Wrap each 1/4 cup melted margarine triangle around an apple Butternut and other winter 1/3 cup water wedge. Arrange in a nine- squash make great pies. I just Preheat oven to 400 degrees. inch square pan. Drizzle the use my pumpkin pie recipe Combine sugar and cinnamon; butter over all. Sprinkle sugar and use the cooked, mashed
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squash instead of pumpkin. 1 tsp. garlic powder We think it makes a better pie. 1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning
The next recipe came from 1 lb. boneless chicken breasts Mix mustard, oil, garlic powGrey Poupon. der and Italian seasoning in large bowl or plastic bag. Add Baked Chicken Poupon 4 TBS. Grey Poupon Dijon chicken to coat. Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes or until Mustard 2 TBS. water or vegetable oil done. McCoy’s. Note: It would be interesting to (Continued from page 34) know if there are any surviving After being taken to the home members of either family who of Anderson Ferrel in Warm have their own tales to tell Hollow at Matewan, W. VA, in about this saga. the back of the depot, Ellison Hatfield expired the afternoon of August 9, 1982.Those 26 Ms. Seivers’ articles appear in stab wounds and gunshots several newspapers in Kenwere too much for him. tucky where she has been a columnist for 14 years. She That night, the three McCoys has written a book, Simple were taken across the Tug Pleasures, which is a collection river at Matewan and shot to of stories that focus on family, death in a paw paw thicket. small town virtues and closeFrom then on, for years, there knit neighborhoods in Appalawas open warfare and feuding chia during the 30’s and 40’s. between the Hatfield’s and
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Rowing (Continued from page 31) cally shares “It is a way to get a non-impact, full-body workout and something you can do
recreationally or competitively, individually or with a group of 4 or 8.” The benefits don’t end with
physical improvements; rowers benefit from the sport’s strong emphasis on teamwork, determination and leadership. Leslie Rutherford, also a Masters Rower, has been part of an 8-person team for about 4 years. After suffering from some back issues, several friends talked her into giving rowing a shot. “I love being out in nature and one the water. The team aspect is unlike any other - as an adult it’s inspiring to see other adults that have such dedication to the sport. Once we hit the water, all the outside pressures of the world disappear and we focus on our goal as a team.” Something must be working well for their team as they recently won gold in Augusta, Georgia at a US Rowing regional event. After placing silver and bronze at several races, everything finally clicked as they pulled together and won this recent race. About competitive rowing she adds, “I really think rowing is one of the greatest team sports there is because it involves intense focus to work together. It also allows you that total escape from any stress that you are experiencing so it is a very relaxing activity for me. Winning helped to fuel us for the next race and made all our hard work worth it.” While the residents (and businesses) in Oak Ridge are thankful that our area attracts such a strong rowing community, it’s easy to wonder why. It’s the mild East Tennessee climate and the 30 mile stretch of flat water sur-
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rounded by East Tennessee’s natural beauty that have made Melton Hill Lake one of the top destinations for rowers in the country. Oak Ridge has long been one of the most favorable destinations for Junior, Collegiate and Masters row-
ers; ORRA is capitalizing on community will come out and that and become host to many support this exciting time in rowing. Find more informaintercollegiate Regattas. tion about all the happenings Saturday, October 24th is the at ORRA on their website Secret City Regatta - which at www.orra.org or head on will be open and free to the down to Melton Lake Park and public. ORRA hopes that the drop in!
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Buy Low (Continued from page 30) Once you have 2-3 properties identified, do a drive-by appraisal to determine whether they are in an area that would support a resale. If so, these properties
will be your target, and your target purchase price should be at or below the average selling (not asking) prices. Don’t hesitate to make your offer based on a price that is 20-25% below the average selling price. You can always allow the seller to negoti-
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ate upwards to an acceptable ket” value, but you can always price (which should still be be- buy below fair market. As my low the average selling prices). first partner taught me: “We’re going to pass up the GOOD In summary, you make your deals when we find them.” profit when you buy, not when “Why?”, I asked. His answer: you sell. You can rarely sell a “because we’re going to wait for property for more than “fair mar- the GREAT ones!” Remember a few things when buying real estate for the first time can be an exciting point in your life. Most people dream of what their first home will look like and are anxious when the time finally comes. However, there are a few things you want to take care of prior to buying your first home. 1. Know your credit The first thing a lender is going to look at is your credit and FICO score. Your FICO score will be within the range of 400 to 850 with 850 being the high end. You want your FICO score to be as high as possible. Take the time to attain a credit report and find out exactly what your score is. 2. Know your finances As soon as you know your credit score, the next step to buying real estate is knowing your finances. You are going to find that the down-payment to purchasing a home can be quite a huge hit. Just keep in mind that there are many different loans/ mortgages out there that offer low down-payment options for you. But you do not want to get into a home you cannot afford. 3. Get pre-approved When you meet with a mortgage broker or banker, you want
to ask them to pre-approve you. Pre-approval is an underwriting of your file and will help you identify how much you can actually spend on a house. You will have to provide your income documentation, credit and many other things in order to underwrite your file.
4. Down-payment assistance programs Most people are not going to be able to pay for the entire home upfront and may not even be able to afford the down-payment. As you meet with your mortgage broker or banker, have them look at down payment assistance programs for you. Having them look for you will help you find what programs are available and if you qualify for them.
5. First-time home buyer classes When buying real estate for the first time, look into first-time home buyer classes. You will find that many lenders and realtors offer home buyer education classes. This will help you learn about applying for a loan, working with a realtor, bargaining, making an offer, and going to closing. The more you know about the overall process the smoother it will go for you.
Buying your first home is a huge step. While it can be a bit overwhelming if you are unprepared, there are classes and programs that can help smooth the process. Keep in mind these five steps as you look into buying real estate for the first time.
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The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
No matter where you stand in Michigan, you are never more than 85 miles from a Great Lake.
Louie (Continued from page 5) major event of the fall season in East Tennessee, held on the grounds of Cove Lake State Park in Caryville. Upwards of 8,000 guests are anticipated to attend and enjoy a day that planners like to imagine Howard would appreciate. Craft Village The early bird gets the worm, and the first guests through the gates at Louie Bluie are keen to lay their eyes on the variety of handmade crafts that reflect the spirit of our Appalachian region. This year’s vendors will offer hand-dyed scarves and wraps, pottery, decoratively painted gourds, seasonal decorations, and more.
formance stages, you’ll be entertained from morning to night by an array of talented regional and national musicians. Since its earliest days, Louie Bluie has endeavored to present performers who reflect the diversity inherent in the East Tennessee region and Howard Armstrong’s own life and musical career. Each category is quintessentially represented in this year’s musical headliners.
Bluegrass quartet Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle echoes the string music that rings from the Cumberland Mountains and the Powell Valley. Gulley is a resident of Cumberland Gap Live Music and a longtime supporter of If you sit yourself down at the Louie Bluie Festival, but one of the festival’s two per- he is best known to bluegrass
fans as playing sideman for Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver early in his career, as well as a founder and lead vocal-
ist of Mountain Heart and Grasstowne. This year, Gulley brings his brand-new band of players to perform songs from their self-titled, debut record on Rural Rhythm Records. Plenty of family gatherings will take place at Louie Bluie, but at least one will happen on stage when the Pinnacle Mountain Boys will reunite for a set on the Sounds Like Home stage. Don Gulley, Steve’s father, was a founding member of the Pinnacle Mountain Boys, who were a prominent touring bluegrass band in the ‘50s and ‘60s. In the ‘80s, Steve and Don began performing together
Visions Magazine, September 2015, Page 39 on the historic Renfro Valley shows in Kentucky. Steve is considered an honorary Pinnacle Mountain Boy, and festival attendees can expect some special guest opportunities during each band’s set. History will also be made earlier in the afternoon when the New River Boys take the stage. Starting in the mid 1960s on LaFollette’s WLAF’s Tennessee Jamboree, the New River Boys trio of Tommy Phillips, Pitney Seiber and Eugene McGhee literally ran onto the stage for each performance, took to the mics, leapt forward with mountain-made bluegrass music and never looked back. Over the years since, the band has seen many lineup changes—adding bassist Elmer Phillips in the ‘70s, and
welcoming banjo journeyman Wade Hill—the band has stayed active due to Tommy Phillips’ drive to perform. As the stories of Cumberland County’s musical traditions and Howard Armstrong’s legacy are told through the day’s soundtrack, it’s particularly exciting when our performing artists have personal connections to Howard. The Armstrong Legacy Trio returns to the festival to unite Howard’s son Ralphe on bass with Ray Kamalay on guitar and John Reynolds on fiddle. Just like his dad, Ralphe started playing music at a young age; by age 5 he was picking along with his father, and at 13 he performed with Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. The Detroit native’s lifelong career has taken him around the world with the Mahavishnu Orchestra with John MacLaughlin, Sting and Roger Daltrey (See ‘Louie’ on page 44)
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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
Homecoming (Continued from page 11) nied by Josh Goforth. Welcome favorites returning to grace the stages again this fall are the multi-talented Jeff Brown and Still Lonesome; Blue Moon Rising, recognized by CMT.com as having a Top 10 Bluegrass Album; the legendary Leroy Troy; and Dale Jett from the Carter family.
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with this coming October are Roy Harper, the Museum of Bluegrass, Ron Collins and The Stewart Family, Mel- Appalachia Band, Ma Crow Circle of Friends, Cicada vin Goins and Windy Moun- and the Lady Slippers, Daniel Rhythm, the Firehouse Band, Hominy Mamas, Knoxville Area Dulcimer Club, Knox County Jug Stompers, Judi Pagter, Just South of Heaven, The Ransom Notes, Jennifer Rose, The Tenos, David West and the Cedar Mountain Folk, and Uncle Doc Wilhite.
Added to these, will be emerging talents Steve Gulley and New Pinnacle, the Hogslop String Band and Uncle Shuffelo and His Haint Hollow Hoo- tain, Russ and Becky Jeffers, tenanny. Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, Tom Brantley and MissionOther musicians attendees ary Ridge, Johnny Bellar, can expect to enjoy a reunion
Mala Patterson will charm guests. The Museum continues to preserve what would otherwise be lost arts, with fascinating, educational and historic demonstrations that take place throughout the village, using old-time mountain and pioneer skills, as well as many of the conventional tools. And, all festival long, guests can peruse and shop The Tennessee Fall Home- the heritage arts and crafts,
Rothwell and Overall Creek, Mack Snoderly and Flave Hart Band, and Lilies of the West. Jamming sessions will populate the grounds, and, in the relaxed setting of the Museum commons, music enthusiasts will have the remarkable opportunity to “meet and greet” many of their choice entertainers, purchase their latest CDs and request an autograph. coming is much more than a music festival, with someRegional and local talent will thing for everyone to enjoy. In abound on several stages: keeping with the Museum’s the Ball Sisters, Blue Ridge mission, guests will find deEntertainers, Clinch Valley light in a wide range of other captivating talent and interesting happenings. Traditional Appalachian dancers, buckdancers and cloggers, including the legendary Thomas Maupin and the award winning
watch the artisans at work, partake in fine Southern fare and Appalachian delicacies, and enjoy the opportunity to connect with regionally and nationally known Southern authors. Visit the Museum of Appalachia’s website, www.museu(See ‘Homecoming’ on page 42)
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Homecoming (Continued from page 41) mofapppalachia.org or the Tennessee Fall Homecoming Facebook Page for breaking details. See the full list of artists as booking progresses, get up-to-date festival informa-
tion, find answers to FAQs, get directions and more. To order either full festival or single day tickets at the early discounted rate, call the Museum at 865-494-7680, or purchase on-line by September 15th.
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“I don’t know, Jimmy,” Pastor sighed. “I guess I’m just kind of old-school. I suppose that’s what the denomination will do once they catch wind of this. I just can’t see the point of findA non-profit organization, the ing some other parade, jumpMuseum’s mission is to preserve Appalachian artifacts and instill in the community — regionally, nationally, and internationally — a greater knowledge of, and appreciation for, the Appalachian heritage. Pictured in order are artist Troy Leroy, crowd picture from 2013 and musical act The Gibson Brothers.
ing in front of it, and calling it Christianity. So I’m closing it up tonight, and there won’t be any services here tomorrow. I’m putting ‘Out of Business for Lack of Sin’ on the marquis, and taking the day off– that is, until the phone starts ringing. Headquarters will have a conniption, I suppose, when they get back from the Felt Needs
Conference in Orlando, and I imagine the place will be back in business in a few weeks, under new management I’m afraid, and after this probably with a new name and everything.” “Jimmy, would you do me a favor?” the Pastor asked. “Leave the lawn unmowed for tomorrow. It strengthens the statement.”
About the author...
Chris Bunn is pastor of Faith Bible Fellowship, an Evangelical Free Church in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He and his wife, Robin, have lived in Oak Ridge since 1987, and have three grown children. Pastor Chris may be reached at pastorchris@faithbibleoakridge.com.
February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
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The Golden Roast: Coffee’s Sweet Spot I’ve been a coffee drinker for a very long time. When I was about five years old, I wondered about this dark elixir my parents seemed to hold so dear, so I asked to try it. I
from my taste buds. Many years later, as a teenager, my mother fueled my winter evening activities with my first cup of coffee mixed
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But this month, I learned of a local roaster of coffee beans, an artisanal discipline that happens right here in Anderson County. Don Payne, owner of The Golden Roast, along with Greg Cox, a “coffee scientist,” seek the perfection that is to be found in every bean as they are remember then stuffing paper with heavy doses of cream committed to their hand-made towels in my mouth trying to and sugar. It was then that I process of roasting. absorb the vile bitter poison learned of the power of cofIn a temperature and humidity-controlled garage, Payne and Cox work with a gaspowered coffee roaster, a gorgeous, antiquated piece of machinery made between 1914 and 1918. The rest of the room is filled with bins displaying labels such as, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Sumatra, and Brazil. These are full of coffee seeds or “beans” untouched by the roaster and still in their natu-
ral, green state. It is when the green meets the machine that the art of coffee roasting begins. “Each bean has a sweet spot,” Greg said. “It’s the point in the process when the bean is roasted to its individual perfection.”
It is a very low-tech operation, which is why The Golden Roast’s Coffee turns out so good. They use a water, instead of a
I found the term “sweet spot” to be a literal interpretation. I told Don and Greg that after all these years, I still have to
add sugar to my coffee to take away from its bitterness. And to my surprise, Don said, “Coffee isn’t supposed to be bitter.” To know the sweet spot takes experience and use of all the senses. Greg knows its time by sight, smell, and sound.
chemical, process to make their line of decaf and their flavored coffees are made with the best oils. Then their varieties, such as French Roast, Espresso, light and dark, are bagged and sealed (See ‘Coffee’ on page 45)
Page 44, Visions Magazine, September 2015 the strings; he bowed with long strokes; he sang in a warm and whispery voice. (Continued from page 39) Needless to say, the crowed (of The Who), among many roared.” others. Ralphe’s 2013 CD, HomeBASS, was nominated In recent years, young performers like the Carolina for a Grammy award. Chocolate Drops and (nowAnother musician whose path crossed Howard’s makes his Louie Bluie debut in 2015. Oakland, Calif. native Alvin “Youngblood” Hart made a big impression with his debut record, 1996’s Big Mama’s Door. His faithful and original country blues sound evoked comparisons to Leadbelly and earned praise from Taj Mahal. In 1998, the 35-year-old Hart shared an Oakland stage with an 89-year-old Howard Armstrong. David Feld documented the event in an issue of Blues Access magazine: former Chocolate Drop) Dom “With Hart on guitar, the older Flemons have revived interman pulled out his fiddle and est in the history of African told Hart, ‘Let me know when American string bands, and, you’re ready, ‘cause I’m ready as a frequent player of the to leave the station. Think you banjo, Hart is recognized as can keep up? ´Cause you a torchbearer of this tradition. sure can’t catch up once I get going.’ Then he proved it by More information about the blazing through Gershwin’s Louie Bluie Festival musi‘Lady Be good.’ He plucked cians including EmiSunshine;
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Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Tennessee Schmaltz; Dixieghost, Maggie Longmire and Free Soil Farm; Sparky and Rhonda Rucker; New River Boys; Kelle Jolly & Will Boyd Project; The BluePrint featuring Keith Brown; and Y’uns Jugband can be found online at
Youth, teen and adult amateur artists are invited to enter their work in the festival’s Judged Art Show. Submissions will be accepted at Cove Lake State Park Pavilion/ Recreation Building, T h u r s d a y, September 24, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday, September 25, 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. All entries will be exhibited at the Pavilion during the festival (10 a.m. - 5 p.m.) and must be claimed between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. that day. More details about the application and judging processes are available on LouieBluie. org or by emailing Art Competition Chair Karen Cumorich at LouieBluie.org and in the fes- kleec43@gmail.com. tival’s souvenir program available on site on September 26. Kids’ Zone In addition to eating and havArt and Quilt Show ing their faces painted, the younger set will find plenty to
do at Louie Bluie. The Kids’ Zone provides opportunities for kids to burn excess energy in the bounce houses and exercise their creativity doing a variety of crafts. Volunteers will be on hand to show young artists how to use the materials. Food Court Shopping, doing crafts, and grooving to music can work up a mighty appetite in kids of all ages. When hunger hits, it’s time for a visit to the festival’s food court. Guests will find a variety of vendors offering frozen treats, Film Tent Step inside the film tent to learn more about Howard Armstrong’s life through films including the 2002 documentary Sweet Old Song, by Leah Mahan, which documents the love story of Howard and his second wife Barbara Ward (See ‘Louie’ on page 47)
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
Coffee (Continued from page 43) then delivered to some of our favorite places to sit and enjoy a good cup of coffee. Here in Anderson County, The Golden Roast supplies beans to Perkedeli’s in Clinton and The Sweet Café in Norris. But they have been supplying beans to many favorite restaurants in Knoxville such as The Tomato Head, Coffee and Chocolate, The Oliver Hotel, Best Bagel Deli, The Open Chord, and of course The Golden Roast
Coffee House on Melrose So, why then, if coffee is Place near the University of not supposed to be bitter, do I have to add sugar to Tennessee Campus. mine? Well because as Greg The Golden Roast is spe- said, coffee ages and decays. cial because the beans are “When it’s still green, it can last roasted locally and that means for years,” he said. “But once a fresher and they not only sup- bean is roasted, it is good for ply restaurants, but their bags a couple of months. And once of coffee are available for it’s been ground, it has about retail. You can buy a one or a week before it starts to go one-half pound bag of coffee south.” So apparently all these by ordering via email at cof- years that I’ve bought coffee fee@tgroast.com or by phone off the store shelves, that had at 865-321-0439 and they will been ground and shipped from have it shipped to you. You California or other such far off can view their line of coffees places, it was well past a week since it was ground that I brew at www.tgroast.com. it and start adding sugar. So Don and Greg sent me off from their roasting garage with an education on coffee and a bag of beans to take home. It was a bag of French Vanilla and it was whole bean. The next morning, I ground it up and brewed a pot and guess what: I drank it black. And I enjoyed every sweet sip. Pictured are Don and Greg owners of the Golden Roast.
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blooper reels from Pat’s own TV shows, (featuring actors such as Dustin Hoffman, (Continued from page 13) Sean Connery, Bing Crosby, a conservative political com- Dick Van Dyke and others), mentator. and other fond memories will be displayed throughout the The Performance show on overhead projector In this funny and often touch- screens. ing autobiographical one-man show, entertainment icon Pat While many school systems Boone sings the hits and tells across the United States conthe stories of his 50+ years sider whether to continue ofin show business. From the fering Music, Theatre and Art early days of competing with classes, the Oak Ridge High Elvis for the number one spot School is committed to keepon the pop music charts, to his ing these programs strong film and television career to and vibrant. Proceeds from an inside glimpse of his family this special performance are life…Pat shows why he’s still specifically earmarked for acone of the all-time greats. tivities of the Oak Ridge High School’s Music Program and Music & Memories: An Eve- Jazz Ensemble. Additionally, ning with Pat Boone was students will have the handsconceived and designed to on opportunity to experience provide the live audience the workings of a live touring with an inside look into Pat production. They will help Boone’s career spanning 5 load and unload equipment, decades. Selections from set lighting, usher and take Pat’s all-time greatest hits will tickets and sell concessions be performed with a piano and Artist merchandise. accompaniment in a very intimate setting. Between songs, The Oak Ridge PerformPat will share the behind-the- ing Arts Center is located at scenes stories that shaped the High School, 1450 Oak the songs, recordings, and Ridge Turnpike in Oak Ridge. career of one of pop culture’s Parking is Free. Tickets are most influential icons. Video available by phone at 865clips from his appearances 656-4444 or online at www. on the Ed Sullivan , David Let- knoxvilletickets.com. terman, and Tonight shows,
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Body Menders is a fitness program that is designed to meet the needs of all ages and all levels of fitnessseniors, overweight, diabetic, heart patient, sedentary, the athlete, those recovering from illness or injuries. Your goals will be achieved with the use of bands, weights, and mat work. The senior class utilizes chairs to help the beginner through advanced devote their focus on their movements.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write 50,000 words.
Body Menders Fitness Program Body Menders) was certified by Charlotte Hensley (Energizing Exercises) in 1985. Frances has continued her certifications and trainings through NDEITA (National Dance-Exercise Instructors Trainings Association), Jazz Dancercise & Aerobic Dancing Training, Fitour Step Aerobics, Fitour Yoga, Fitour Pilates, and Body Recall. She has maintained an exemplary level of teaching with both Body Recall and Fitour Pilates. She attended Frances Gross (owner of the President’s Council on
Physical Fitness & Sports. Frances developed her own style of training ove the year andyou will find threads of all of her trainings in her classes. Every student is given individual attention in the group setting of exercise. Every class is a total body workout. Classes are currently being held at the Children’s Museum, First United Methodist Church and National Fitness. For a class to meet your individual needs see the ad below.
Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury. Award in 2003, and a short biography produced by the 2003 Tennessee Arts Com(Continued from page 44) mission titled The Genius of and their visit to East Tennes- Howard Armstrong. see in 2000. The documentary will rotate with footage of How- Where Credit is Due ard receiving the Governor’s The Louie Bluie Music & Arts
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Festival is organized and produced by a group of volunteers under the umbrella of the Campbell Culture Coalition, a non-profits arts organization whose mission is to enhance the artistic and cultural opportunities of the citizenry,
Visions Magazine, September 2015, Page 47 preserve the culturally significant past, and support the artistic and cultural talents of our youth, who are our future. The festival is free to attend, but donations are appreciated and can be given at each festival gate and the main stages. Donations made on site or online at LouieBluie. org are used to support the festival and youth art projects in Campbell County.
sion; Town of Caryville; American Trust Bank of East Tennessee; LaFollette Eye Clinic; City of LaFollette; Campbell County Chamber of Commerce; Holiday Inn Express & Suites; Town of Jacksboro; LaFollette Utilities Board; Cumberland Trail; Ayers Auction & Real Estate; WDVX FM 89.9; WTNQ-FM 104.9; WBIR Channel 10; 1450 WLAF; Averra Media Corp; Anderson County Visions Magazine; LaFollette Press; WJBE 99.7 FM; Gray Insurance Agency and Pyro Shows.
The festival is also made possible by the generous support of these corporate sponsors and festival partners: Pictured are performers in order of appearance; Steve Powell-Clinch Utility District; Gulley & New Pinnacle, Kelle People’s Bank of the South; Jolly & the Will Boyd Project, Tennessee Arts Commission; Tennessee Schmaltz and AlCampbell County Commis- vin “Youngblood” Hart.
Caballeros (Continued from page 20) stead of the often used lard, so their vegetarian dishes are 100% meat free. Next time I visit, I am going to save room for dessert because they have something I’ve never heard of before and it sounds divine: The Banana Burrito! It is a flour tortilla wrapped around a banana and fried, topped with cinnamon, honey, and butter, then served with ice cream!
Felisimo said that opening the new Los Caballeros is a process, as any good work should be. He is enjoying watching to see what customers want and adjusting the restaurant accordingly. It will be a tasty experience to observe them as they grow. Stop in now to see it all happening. They are located at 1140 Oak Ridge Turnpike and you can call them at 865-272-3009. They are open seven days a week, but have shorter hours on Sundays from 12:00 to 3:00.
Pictured is Felisimo Garcia owner if Los Caballeros.
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To accommodate the quickly growing human population and all its creature comforts, we have had to bump up against and encroach upon the places where the wild
things are. Ideally, we would have adapted to live with the wild, but instead we have often expected it to go away once we arrived, which many have. And then there is the coyote, a wild animal that has proved it is all about the survival of the most adaptive, and has insisted that we live where the wild things are. Once a creature that claimed and remained in the wideopen deserts and prairies, they have infiltrated our sub-
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!.
We are Where the Wild Things Are urbs and cities and now move like ghosts among us, often unseen by human eyes. To stay out of our way, they have traded their usual hunting times of dawn and dusk and
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Melissa Bishop laughter in the night, a range of cackles, huffs, yips, woos, yelps, howls, and barks, they are communicating with their loved ones, like letters home from college, they are letting mom and dad know they are doing okay. But fifty to seventy percent of coyotes die before reaching adulthood. Eighty percent of these deaths are due to trapping, shooting, or poisoning
have opted for the nightshift. They have also traded jackrabbits for loose-lidded garbage cans. Sticking together has also helped ensure their survival. They keep strong family ties and a male and female will mate for life. As we enter their mating season of midwinter or during the late fall when their cubs leave the den to forge territories of their own, you will hear their famous calls. With that unmistakable
by humans. People fear coyotes. Some of this fear has a sound foundation and some of it is our fear of the wild and predatory. Coyote attacks on humans are rare. They prefer to stay away from us, but bites and attacks have occurred and made for attention-grabbing headlines. To put things in perspective, the number of coyote attacks on humans have totaled in the low hundreds in recorded history. Although an estimated 1,000 people a day require emergency treatment for a domestic dog bite. Most often these coyote attacks occur because it became comfortable around the human by being
allowed into man’s territory or finding a food source there. Even feeding them inadvertently by leaving fallen fruit under a tree or by leaving your garbage can lid on too loosely will seem like an invitation to stay awhile. When a coyote appears, the right thing to do is clean up anything that may peak their interest and to simply yell at it to go away and make a lot of noise. The other source of coyote hysteria is their impact on livestock. There is a long history of farmers protecting their sheep, goats, cattle, or chickens from coyotes by hunting them down before they even (See ‘Coyotes’ on page 50)
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The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
“The Foreigner” Returns to Cumberland Co. Playhouse September 4 through November 6, The Foreigner returns to the Cumberland County Playhouse Mainstage! Says director Weslie Webster (Smoke on the Mountain, Wizard of Oz),”Ever since it was first performed at CCP in 1987, The Foreigner has been the most requested title
– and the most popular production – in Playhouse history. And I’m just thrilled that I once again get to work with all the amazing actors who made the show a smash hit last year.” Since its 1983 premiere, Larry Shue’s side-splitting farce has earned two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production. In it, we meet the painfully shy Charlie Baker (Jason Ross) who has been brought to a remote fishing lodge in Georgia by his friend Froggy (Michael Ruff), a British demolitions expert who runs training sessions at a nearby army base. Terrified of actually having to converse
with strangers once Froggy Currently at the Playhouse: Ludwig’s (Lend Me A Tenor) departs, Charlie pretends to Smoke on the Mountain, hilarious farce The Fox on be a foreigner who doesn’t rated G, sponsored by Crack- the Fairway, rated PG-13, understand Engsponsored by Good lish. When the Times Wine, Spirits other residents of & Brew, through Octhe lodge begin tober 16. Upcoming: to speak freely the show that startaround him, he ed it all, Paul Crabnot only becomes tree’s The Perils of privy to secrets Pinocchio, rated G, both frivolous and sponsored by memdangerous, he bers of the Crabtree also discovers an Family, September 25 adventurous extrothrough October 31. vert within himself. Tickets and information are also available Also returning for Southern Stars to the cast are Symphonic Brass Carol Irvin as and other events. the lodge’s owner All CCP productions Betty Meeks, Lauare made possible ren Marshall as through sponsor supformer debutante port, with additional Catherine Simms, support provided by who’s visiting with the Tennessee Arts her brother Ellard (Daniel er Barrel Old Country Store, Commission and the National Black) and fiancé Reverend through October 10 and Ken Endowment for the Arts. David Lee (Britt Hancock). Grammy nominee Bobby Taylor rounds out the cast as the disreputable local Owen Musser. The Foreigner is rated G and is co-sponsored by Stanley Bise, M.D. and Dr. Anthony Wilson. Tickets are available by calling 931-484-5000 or by visiting www.ccplayhouse. com.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Community Calendar The Community Calendar listings are free for musical events, theaters, art galleries, museums, community groups, public events, and non-profit groups. To submit your Community Calendar event please email us at: chris@acvisionsmag.com. In your email subject line include the words” “Community Calendar Listing.” Please be sure to include the organization name, event discription, time, dates, place, cost, contact name and phonenumber with any submitted listing. Please note that we are unable to receive calendar listings by US Mail, Fax or phone calls. Deadline to submit entries for consideration is the 20th day of each month.
Wild (Continued from page 48) arrive on the property. In the name of protecting their livelihood, farmers and ranchers have perpetuated a longstanding coyote witch hunt.
AMSE AMSE opens three new science-themed interactive exhibits 2015—Space exploration, supercomputing and neutron science are featured in three new hands-on exhibits at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge. The exhibits showcase national science topics with local ties to research at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “Bringing more of the modern lab into AMSE enhances our mission,” said AMSE director David Moore. “In addition to learning about our past, we hope visitors enjoy learning about the fascinating scope of research ongoing at ORNL.” In the supercomputing exhibit, visitors can learn about ORNL’s Titan, currently
the second most powerful computer in the world, through its miniature counterpart, “Tiny Titan,” which is built with an Xbox videogame controller, Raspberry Pi processors, and a television screen. The colorful Tiny Titan computer is designed to interactively teach the basics of parallel computing. Unlike serial computers, which only have one processor per core, parallel computers have multiple processors on each core, enabling much faster calculations. “Tiny Titan uses an interactive, visual simulation to show how multiple computers can work together to speed up the same scientific problem,” said Robert French, OLCF staff scientist and one of the creators of Tiny Titan. Each of Tiny Titan’s nine cores displays a different colored light, and images on the connected monitor use the same colors to show what each processor is doing. The more
dents that can damage crops a dog’s. But the best indicaand fields. They will even eat tor of coyotes in your area is that unmistakable, eerie, a plague of locusts. high-pitched laughter on the As coyotes are weaving night wind. through our neighborhoods more often, the biggest threat is to our house pets. If coyotes are known to be in your area, keep dogs and cats indoors, especially during the “coyote hours.” They are most active during dusk and dawn. Sometimes, fencing is a must.
It is true that they kill livestock, but for example, in 1997, of all the losses of calves in Arkansas, only 6.4 percent were due to coyotes. But to rid an area If you think there are coyotes of coyotes may do more harm in your neighborhood, you are than good. probably right, but check for evidence. Coyotes will leave Coyotes have taken up the a track that is similar to that mantle of the predator wolves of a large dog, but more oval that have disappeared. Now shaped and with fewer claw the coyotes are the balancers marks. Their tracks also tend of ecosystems. They take care to pattern themselves into of the overpopulation of ro- more of a straight line than
colors that light up on the computers, the faster the program will run. AMSE’s new Cassini exhibit features the pioneering spacecraft’s mission to Saturn. Deep-space probes such as Cassini get their power through the thermoelectric effect, using heat from the decay of plutonium-238 to generate electricity. ORNL is leading DOE’s production of plutonium-238 for NASA.
niversary competition winning photographs. American Museum of Science & Energy will open Nikon Small World, a traveling exhibit showcasing 20 award winning photomicrographs from the 40th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition is open to anyone with an interest in photography. Participants may submit their images in traditional 35mm
Through September 12 Nikon Small World’s 40th an-
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First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Visions Magazine, September 2015, Page 51 Mud Pies, 9 a.m.-noon, ages 5-8. Children will explore ways to build and make unique works of art, using pinch and coil techniques to make wacky creatures from clay. They will create pieces from nature, hand-build a funky mask and make a one-of-a-kind creation. Camp limit is 12. Members, $125, and non-members, $135.
(Continued from Page 50) format, or upload digital images directly at www.nikonsmallworld. com. For additiona information, contact Nikon Small World, Nikon Instruments Inc., 1300 Walt Whitman Road, Melville, NY 11747, USA or phone (631) 547-8569. Entry forms for Nikon’s 2014. Small World Competition may also be downloaded from www. nikonsmallworld.com. (Full story is found on page 8 of this issue) Please note: The American Museum of Science and Energy, located at 300 South Tulane Avenue in Oak Ridge, is open Monday - Saturday from 9 am - 5 pm and Sunday from 1 - 5 pm. Admission is Adults $5.00, Seniors (65+) $4.00, Students (6 17) $3.00 and Children ( 5 and under) no charge. Group rates are available with advance reservations. AMSE memberships are Family $40, Grandparents $35, Individuals $25 and Family & Friends $75. AMSE members receive unlimited AMSE visits and free admission to 250 museums that participated in the ASTC Passport Program. AMSE members receive discounts on Discovery Shop merchandise, discounts on camps, classes, workshops and birthday parties. For more information on AMSE memberships, exhibits, programs and events, go to www.amse.org To schedule a museum group visit, call AMSE at (865) 576-3200.
Children’s Museum
House, built by University of Tennessee students and donated to the museum by UT, and learn about caring for the earth and conservation practices in the Tuesdays, Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 home. Open for tours the third Toddlers’ Playtime, 10 a.m.- Sunday of each month. noon, for parents and caregivers with children age 4 and younger. Sunday, Sept. 20, 1-4 p.m. All will gather in the Preschool World of Trains Tours, 1-4 p.m. Room where youngsters and Join the Knoxville Area Model adults may socialize. Children Railroaders as they open their will be able to build with blocks, club room and operate model put together tracks and run trains trains in extensive train layouts on them, play in a sensory table, in the museum’s exhibit. The Gardig for dinosaurs in a sandbox, den Railroad train will be running, explore books, play with puppets, weather permitting. and “cook” in the “kitchen.” Free with museum membership or Monday-Friday, Oct. 5-9 paid admission. Moms, dads, grandparents, and caregivers are welcome. Thursdays, Sept. 3, 10, 17, 24 Musical Mornings, 10 a.m.noon. Children through age 4 and parents and caregivers are invited to play in an age-appropriate musical play space in the Music Room. Parents and caregivers can help children identify high tones and low tones, show them different rhythms, and just let them make their own music and sing their own songs. Saturday, Sept. 5 Art Exhibit Opening, 2 p.m. The museum will host an opening for Marta Goebel, artist and painter, and Pat Clapsaddle, clay artist, whose art works will be on exhibit through September in Imagination Gallery. Sunday, Sept. 20 Living Light Solar House Tours, 1-4 p.m. Take a tour of the Solar
Cookin’ in the Kitchen with Kids, 1-4 p.m., kindergarten-3rd grade. Children will make fun, kid-friendly recipes while practicing kitchen safety and learning cooking fundamentals. They will prepare several breakfast dishes and create Mexican, Italian and Asian recipes. Camp limit is 12. Members, $125, and nonmembers $135
the natural world: discover the balance we need to have to be in harmony with nature. Learn to understand the need to live in a healthy environment through Kids Go Green’s eco-action. Class limit is 10. Members, $125, and nonmembers, $135. International Cooking, 9 a.m.noon, 4th – 7th grades. Youth will take a culinary journey around the world as they prepare different recipes from Italy, France, India, Greece and China. Class limit is 12. Members, $125, and non-members, $135.
Jazz Pop, 1-4 p.m., 4th-7tth grades. Kids will join Danya Spratling to learn basic dance steps and a routine. They will make a hip hop hat, and for Halloween, create Kids Go Green “Explore the a dance to “Thriller” and “I’m a Green World Around You,” 9 Monster.” Members, $125, and a.m.-noon, 3rd-4th grades. Explore (Continued on Page 52)
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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seum at 482-1074 or see www. childrensmuseumofoakridge. org.
Spin Me a Tale, 1-4 p.m., ages 9-12. Youth will learn the basics of throwing on the pottery wheel and discover ways to tell stories using etching and stenciling techniques on clay. Class limit is 5. Members, $125, and non-members, $135. Saturday, September 11-12 “Days of the Pioneer” Antique Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Show, The fourth annual event Oct. 5, 7 and 9 will feature the finest selection Build your own Bear, 3-5 p.m., of 18th and 19th century ages 8-12. Youth will create and American antiques. An extensive design their own hand sewn, collection of some of the finest stuffed bear. They will cut a pat- dealers hail from across the tern, choose fabric, cut out a bear United States, waiting a year shape, pin it together, then hand to participate in this first class sew and stuff the bear. Class event. “Days of the Pioneer,” a limit is 8. Members, $50, and premier antique show, continues non-members, $60. to be overwhelming success for antique enthusiasts from all over The Children’s Museum of Oak the country. Rosalie, a faithful Ridge, 461 W. Outer Dr., is of- follower of this event, visits each fering fall pottery classes with year from Oregon: “The ‘Days of professional clay artist Sherrie the Pioneer’ Antique Show is the Carris. She has a BFA from the Best I’ve ever been to, no other University of Texas, an MFA antique show can compare! I from the University of Iowa and travel 2000 miles every year just a teaching certification from for the show…find the most one the University of Tennessee. To of a kind, wonderful antiques register, stop by or call the mu- that I will treasure forever…look
Museum of Appalachia
East Tennessee may be anxious for the first signs of spring, but in the spirit of promoting the musical heritage of the region, the Museum of Appalachia is excited to announce this autumn’s Friday - Sunday, October 9 -11 stellar lineup for its 36th Annual Tennessee Fall Homecoming, Tennessee Fall Homecoming. forward to the great Museum of Appalachia each year also, best Museum I’ve ever been to!!” (See full story on page 8 of this issue)
This year’s beloved and historic three-day event will take place on October 9-11th, with more than 70 national, regional and local musicians booked to perform on five rustic outdoor stages, throughout the pastoral grounds
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There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world! silver, also a 7-time IBMA Vocal Group of the Year and Bluegrass of the Museum of Appalachia. Hall of Fame Member. (See full Music enthusiasts come from all story on page 11 of this issue) over the United States, Canada and Europe to experience this The Museum, a Smithsonian annual tradition, now in its 36th Affiliate and a not-for-profit oryear. Prime artists scheduled to ganization, is located 16 miles appear include multiple Grammy north of Knoxville, one mile and International Bluegrass Mu- east of I-75, exit 122. For more sic Award (IBMA) recipients and information, call 865-494-7680, Bluegrass Hall of Fame Members, or visit the web site at www. the Del McCoury Band; Grammy museumofappalachia.org. nominated and two-time IBMA banjo player of the year award winner, JD Crowe and the New South-Reunion; and, the multiple Grammy and Dove nominated band, Doyle Lawson and Quick-
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UT Arboretum
Saturday, September 26 Moonlight Hike, The UT Arboretum Society presents a “Moonlight Hike” on Saturday, September 26, 2015, from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm at the Arboretum at 901 S. Illinois Avenue in Oak Ridge. Join us as we walk Arboretum trails by the light of the silvery moon. The hike will begin at the Visitors Center near the parking lot at 7:30 pm. The 1.5 mile hike will be led by experienced volunteers. The full moon is Sunday, September 27; we scheduled the hike a day early so that older schoolchildren could participate on a non-school night. Moonrise Saturday night is at 6:37 so it will
Visions Magazine, September 2015, Page 53 have risen above the trees by the time we start. Light refreshments will be served. Bring a flashlight if you wish. Wear sturdy shoes with good support as the trail surface can be uneven with roots and rocks. Long pants and bug repellent are also recommended. A suggested $5 donation per car will help the Arboretum Society support the Arboretum. The hike will be cancelled in the event of rain or very cloudy skies. Call the Arboretum office at 4833571 with questions. Note: This event is limited to participants age 10 and older. Saturday, October 17 Fall Plant Sale, The UT Arboretum Society’s Fall Plant Sale will be Saturday, October 17 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at the U.T. Arboretum, 901 S. Illinois Avenue in Oak Ridge. Fall is the ideal time to add plants to the landscape. Milder temperatures, more dependable rainfall, and the fact that plants are devoting all their resources to developing a stronger root system, rather than putting energy into their top growth, will give them a head start in the spring and a much better survival rate. Beaver Creek Nursery, East Fork Nursery, Riverdale Nursery, Sunlight Gardens, as well as the UT Arboretum Society’s members and friends will offer a variety of high quality plants. Dr. Will Witte, the Society’s “Answer Man,” will be there to answer all of your plant questions. Dano’s Hot Dogs will have his popular dogs and lemonade. Sale proceeds and other Society events go to support and secure the future of the UT Arboretum in Oak Ridge. The University of Tennessee Arboretum Society is a 48 year old, non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the objectives and programs of the University of Tennessee’s 250acre Arboretum in Oak Ridge. Proceeds from fund-raising events go toward the operating expenses and endowment fund for the UT Arboretum. To learn more about the Arboretum Society, and the UT Arboretum Endowment Fund, go to www.utarboretumsociety.org. For more information on the plant sale, call 865-482-6656.
Classes/ Workshops Appalachian Arts. Mondays, Sept. 14, 21, 28 Handbuilding with Clay, with Janet McCracken, Choice of: Mondays, September 14, 21, 28 OR October 12, 19, 26 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. This class will be suitable for those who have never taken a class in clay and also for those with some experience who would like to continue to explore the many facets of working with clay. Registration deadline: One Week Prior to Class Start. Earlybird Cost: Register and pay by 2 weeks before class start and the cost is $40 for Craft Center members, $50 for nonmembers. Within 2 weeks of class start, Cost: $50 for Craft Center members; $60 for nonmembers. All students must also pay a $30 studio fee to the Pottery Department on the first day for clay, glaze and firing. Saturday, September 19 Salvage Jewelry, with Sarah Brobst, , 1:00 – 4:00 pm. Do you have that drawer---one that is filled with single earrings (the other one lost), broken necklaces, old watches, stuff you just don’t wear anymore?? I am sure you do... and this class is for you. In this class, you will learn how to dismantle, demolish, reconstruct, reattach, and rearrange old and worn pieces of jewelry to make some truly one-of-a-kind masterpieces. All ages. All tools, enamels, old jewelry pieces, and epoxies are supplied... feel free to bring your old worn pieces that you would like to transform into new accessories. This workshop is funded in part by the East Tennessee Foundation and the Tennessee Arts Commission. Brobst showcased work in art shows during college, but took a break to travel and do work in her field of study. After moving back to Knoxville she started back into creating art---paintings, salvage jewelry, mixed media sculptures, etc. focusing on bringing new life to old, discarded objects. She works full time at a nature center in Knoxville, where she talks about the importance of recycling and repurposing to
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Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. Center is a nonprofit center promoting traditional artists and crafts. The shop and class facility are located at 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris, Tenn., one mile east of I-75 north at Exit 122. You must preregister and pay for all classes in advance. Call the center at 865-494-9854 to register. www. appalachianarts.net. Erin’s Meadow Herb Farm
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Saturday, September 5 “Herbal Solutions for Sleep and Relaxation” Demo/Class $30. 10:30-12:00. Before turning to the drugstore for a sleep medication, consider trying a natural remedy instead. You will avoid potential side effects cause by over the Craft Center members, $80 for counter medications, and can nonmembers. After September rest assured of the safety of these 12, Cost: $80/$90. Registration natural solutions. Discover herbs deadline: September 19. Jessica well known for their sleep induchas been creating mixed me- ing and relaxation qualities, plus dia mosaics and jewelry for 15 amazing, de-stressing and calmyears. She started working with ing aromatherapy techniques with mosaics as a way to refinish fur- the use of essential oils. niture while she was a student at UT studying Interior Design. She Saturday, September 12 creates her mosaics from a vari- “Plant an Organic Container ety of materials including broken china, pottery shards, handmade ceramic, fused glass and cast resin tiles, stained glass, beads and other found objects. She is the former owner of Mighty Mud ceramic studio and is a current member of the Foothills Craft Guild, TACA, and A1 Lab Arts. She also teaches her mosaic and jewelry techniques at various workshop throughout the region.
tember 26, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (bring a lunch). In this one day workshop Peter Rose will teach simple one and two pieces molds. They will be simple forms to use for everyday use. This class is funded in part by the East Tennessee Foundation and The Tennessee Arts Commission. Earlybird Cost: $45 for members, $55 nonmembers before September 12. After September 12: $55/$65. Registration deadline: September 19. Australian by birth, Rose came to East Tennessee in 1985 by way of Japan and England. Rose is affiliated with the Southern Highland Craft Guild Asheville, Tennessee Association of Craft Artists, PiedTuesday, September 22 Wire Wrapped Rings, with mont Craftsman Guild, John C. Kathy King, 6-7:30 p.m. In this Campbell Folk School. class, students will learn how to make basic wire wrapped rings Saturday, September 26 using non-tarnish plated wire Mosaic Birdbath Workshop, (available in several colors) and with Jessica Kortz, 10:00 a.m. – The Appalachian Arts Craft single stone or crystal as the fo- 5:00 p.m. and Sunday Septemcal. Each student will make two ber 27, 2015, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. rings in a choice of wire color In this two day workshop, each and be able to choose from a student will create a fully funcvariety of natural stones, pearls tional mosaic birdbath suitable and Swarovski crystals. The in- for an outdoor space. Students structor will bring plenty of tools will learn hands-on techniques for class use, so all you have to appropriate for outdoor mosabring is yourself! All levels wel- ics while exploring different macome; for ages 15 and up. Ear- terials including ceramic tiles, lybird Cost: Register and pay by stained glass and mirror, broSeptember 8 and the cost is $35 ken dishes, figurines and other for members, $45 for nonmem- found objects. Materials are bers. After September 8: Cost: included, but feel free to bring $40 members, $50 nonmem- your own mosaic supplies and bers. Prices include all materials. personal objects to add to your All levels. Registration deadline mosaic. This class is suitable for all levels. This workshop is September 15. funded in part by the East Tennessee Foundation. Earlybird Saturday, September 26 Mold Making for Potters, with Cost: Register and pay by SepPeter Rose, Saturday, Sep- tember12 and the cost is $70 for the public, and she strives to bring that lesson through in her art. Her works have been showcased as part of the Tennessee Crafts Art Fairs, LEAF Festival, Bele Chere, and just recently made her first two shows as a RAW artist in Nashville, TN and Brooklyn, New York. Earlybird cost: Register and pay by September 5 and the cost is $25 for Craft Center members, $35 for nonmembers. After September 5, cost: $35/ $45. Registration deadline: September 12. Class offered again on Thursday, October 15.
Salad/Stir-fry Garden”, 10:3012:00. Herbal Workshop $25. Salad and stir-fry greens love cool weather, so take advantage of the fall season to grow a container full on your porch or patio. These cut and come again organic greens will supply plenty for the kitchen all season, and you will be pleasantly surprised how easy and rewarding it is! Students will plant and take home an organic container salad/stir-fry garden, and growing/harvesting information. Saturday, September 19 Pellissippi State Culinary Institute, 10:30-12:00. Student Culinary Presentation with Chef Tyler White $10. Join Chef Tyler as his culinary students show off their skills in the herb farm kitchen. This is a great opportunity to learn about the culinary degree program offered at Pellissippi State College, and career opportunities in the culinary arts. Come sample their tasty dishes! On the Menu: TBA. Chef Tyler earned his Master’s degree from The University of Tennessee in Retail Hospitality and Tourism. He
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Visions Magazine, September 2015, Page 55 (Continued from Page 54) has over 15 years in the restaurant industry as a sous chef. He worked with celebrity chefs Tracy Griffith and Darren McGrady, and cooked for Anthony Bourdain, Paula Deen, and ZZ Top. Chef Tyler joined the UT Culinary Institute in 2010 and now teaches for Pellissippi State’s Culinary Arts Program at the University of Tennessee.
Events
Monday, September 7 Oak Ridge Community Band Labor Day Concert - 7:00 p.m., A.K. Bissell Park, 1403 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge. This is a free concert; bring lawn chairs or blankets for outdoor seating and enjoy refreshments from Razzleberry’s Ice Cream Lab. End your Labor Day holiday weekend on a good “note” with the Dixieland Saturday, September 26 Band, Gershwin favorites, Leroy “Make it and Take it – Herbal Anderson, show tunes, marches, Soap on a Rope, 10:30 – 12:00. and more. This is a great way for $10 each. Stop in anytime be- family and friends to celebrate the tween 10:30 – 12:00 to make this “unofficial” end of summer with fragrant, hands-on herbal project. one last summertime event! For Enjoy crafting this soap with pure more information visit www.orcb. essential oils, and organic dried org or call 865-482-3568. herbs. Choose lavender or peppermint! Herbal soap on a rope Tuesday, September 8 is a lovely, aromatic gift to make “Apple Picking Days”, The for yourself or others. Come learn Children’s Defense Fund Haley how! Maximum allowed per stu- Farm invites the community to dent - 3. Additional supplies will its annual “Apple Picking Days” be available to purchase. to be held Tuesday, September 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please Erin’s Meadow is located at share this information with oth132 England Dr, Clinton (Mar- ers you think may enjoy the time low Community) Phone is 435- outdoors. Fruit production was 1452, www.erinsmeadowherbfarm.com. Clinch River Yarn Co. The Clinch River Yarn Company holds classes many days each month. Please go online to www. clinchriveryarns.com for a complete listing of times and dates for the classes above. Clinich River Yarn company is located at 725 N. Charles G. Seivers Boulevard in Clinton. Phone: 269-4528.
lower this year. Participants are asked to bring their own containers and their own apple-picking apparatus. No ladders or stools are permitted, and no one may climb the trees. CDF Haley Farm also requests that no one shake the trees or hit the tree limbs. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Parents and adults in charge of children are responsible for the behavior of the children in their care. CDF Haley Farm is a smoke-free, drug- and alcoholfree, violence-free, hate-free and loving environment, both indoors and outdoors. There is no charge
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Page 56, Visions Magazine, September 2015 (Continued from Page 55) for this event, but donations will be accepted. Please call CDF Haley Farm at 457-6466 if you have any questions. Saturday, September 12 Free Time- An Oak Ridge Art Teacher Retrospective, On September 12 th, Through the Looking Glass Antiques and Collectibles at Jackson Square will host “Free Time- An Oak Ridge Art Teacher Retrospective.” Coordinator and art teacher, Jim Dodson said, “It celebrates the time that art educators have to practice what they teach as they create their own artwork. We feel it’s always important to continue to learn and produce art giving a teacher more experience as we help our young learners.” Teachers who will be displaying their work are Gisela Schrock, Anna Wakefield, Kristi Bailey, James Dodson, Sean Seyfert, Tristy A. Berryhill, Mary K. Chin, Molly Chance, Sara Cochran, and Jefferson Middle art intern Alexis Keever. The exhibit will be composed of drawings, paintings, multi-media pieces, photography, sculpture and ceramics. Many of the pieces will be available to purchase. This is the first of many art exhibits planned for the space this year, giving students of all ages the opportunity to share their talents and love for visual art with
our community. There will be an opening reception on the 12th from 6:00 to 7:00 and refreshments will be served. The artwork will continue to be on display through the month of September. Through the Looking Glass owner, Linda Johnston says she is happy to host the event because the items to be displayed are, “Future antiques.” Through the Looking Glass is located at 209 Jackson Square and you can call 865-335-5614 for more info. Saturday, September 19 Taste of Anderson County, Flavors from some of the area’s favorite restaurants and the sounds of local musicians will fill the newly renovated parking lot at Jackson Square on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at the seventh annual “Taste of Anderson County.” This year will be bigger and better than ever with vendors from all over the county! More importantly, this event brings a substantial amount of support for two local causes United Way of Anderson County, and the Free Medical Clinic! Both of these nonprofits are working hard this year to make a big impact in the community! But they can’t do it without the community there to support them. Follow the “Taste of Anderson County” Facebook event page for updates. For more information or to sign up as a vendor, volunteer, or to enter the “King of the Wing” competition call (865) 4838431 / email Zina@uwayac.org. Or go to our website to download forms: www.uwayac.org. (See full story on page 6 of this issue) Saturday, September 26 Games on Broadway, On Saturday, September 26th from 5:00 to 8:00, Through the Looking Glass Antiques and Collectibles on Jackson Square will host “Board Games off Broadway.” It will be an evening for people of all ages to come together, enjoy the fall weather, and play some of their favorite board games. Since Through the Looking Glass is an antique store, many of the games will be vintage favorites such as Master Mind, Majong, Poke-Mon, Dungeons and Dragons, Chess and more. It will be an evening for fun for everyone. Tables will line the covered sidewalk of Jackson Square for people to come play an old favorite game or learn a
Van Gogh only sold one painting when he was alive. new one. Razzleberry’s will be open serving refreshments so games can be accompanied with ice cream, hot dogs, beer, and more. Owner Linda Johnston says some of the games will be for sale and she hopes to make this a regular event. She foresees a future of game nights on the square with themes of various time periods. “My store is a history store,” she said and Linda seems to love bringing history to life, while adding new life to the community. Call Linda at 335-5614 for more information.
to imagine Howard would appreciate. Live Music - If you sit yourself down at one of the festival’s two performance stages, you’ll be entertained from morning to night by an array of talented regional and national musicians. Since its earliest days, Louie Bluie has endeavored to present performers who reflect the diversity inherent in the East Tennessee region and Howard Armstrong’s own life and musical career. Each category is quintessentially represented in this year’s musical headliners. (See complete Story on Page 5)
Saturday, September 26 Sunday, September 27 Louie Bluie Music & Arts Fes- SQUAWK! Squawk the Show tival, Now in its ninth year, the - unlike any bird show you may homegrown Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival celebrates the life and enduring creative spirit of one of Campbell County’s most famous residents. The festival takes place on Saturday, September 26, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Cove Lake State Park in Caryville. The Louie Bluie Festival is the major event of the fall season in East Tennessee, held on the grounds of Cove Lake State Park in Caryville. Upwards of 8,000 guests are anticipated to attend and enjoy a day that planners like
have seen before. These feathered professionals have more going for them than just their good looks. No boring lectures here, these birds will amaze you with their unusual talents such as painting, mind reading, performing card tricks, solving math problems and so much more. The show is quick-paced, written for adults and loved by all ages. SQUAWK The SHOW will be presented twice on Sunday September 27, at 3 and 6pm at the Historic Grove Theater. The Historic Grove Theater is located at 123 Randolph Road at High Places Community Church near
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by local fire departments, located at the Cullom Street cul-de-sac. This years entertainment will be provided by “The Parrott Brother’s Band”. Admission and parking for the evenings festivities are free with only a $5 charge for tasting and judging the chili cook-off. Don’t forget to bring your lawn chairs to sit in while enjoying the music. On Saturday, October 10th from 9amFri. & Sat., October 9 &10 th Crossville’s 25 Annual Okto- 5pm, over 90 antique dealers berfest will be held on Friday, and artisans will line the streets October 9 from 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 in the historic district for an oldp.m. and on Saturday, October 10 time street festival. Dealers from from 11:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the throughout the southeast will Knights of Columbus Grounds, gather to provide shoppers and 2892 Hwy 70 east, 3 mile east of visitors a great selection of andowntown Crossville. Visit www. tiques and collectibles. An ancrossvilleoktoberfest.com or call tique appraiser will be on hand to 931-707-7291 for more informa- appraise your treasures, beautition. (See full story on Page 9 of ful antique cars and trucks will be on display, there will be delicious this issue) food, musical entertainment and a re-enactment of the historic Fri. & Sat., October 9&10 Clinch River Fall Antiques Burr-Hamilton duel. (See full stoFestival, The Anderson Coun- ry on page 7 of this issue) ty Chamber of Commerce is pleased to host the 15th annual Fri. & Sat., October 16 & 17 Clinch River Fall Antiques Fes- 65th Annual St. Mary’s Fall tival on October 9th & 10th in Festival which will be celebrated Historic Downtown Clinton,Tn. this year on October 16th -17th. On Friday evening, Oct. 9th from The kick-off for this year’s festival 6-9pm, there will be live acoustic will be Friday, Oct 16th with the musical entertainment and food famous and delicious Knights of vendors in the Hoskins/Lane Columbus spaghetti dinner. The Park, muscle cars displayed on dinner will be served from 5-7pm Market Street, and the antique in the St. Mary’s Parish Life Censhops, specialty shops and eat- ter/Columbus Hall with the Live eries will be open late. New this Auction beginning at 7pm. Sayear to the Festival’s Friday eve- truday, October 17 festival activining activities will be musical en- ties will run from 10am- 6pm on (Continued on Page 58) tertainment and a chili cook-off
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the new Kroger Marketplace in West Oak Ridge. Doors open 1 hour before performance. All seats are general admission. Adults are $15.00 and Children 12 and under are $7.00. More information at www.squawktheshow. com. (See full story page 4 of this issue)
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September 19, 2015 at the seventh annual “Taste of Anderson County.” This year will be bigger and better than ever with vendors from all over the county! More importantly, this event brings a substantial amount of support for two local causes United Way of Anderson County, and the Free Medical Clinic! Both of these nonprofits are working hard this year to make a big impact in the community! But they can’t do it without the community there to support them. Follow the “Taste of Anderson County” Facebook event page for updates. For more information or to sign up as a vendor, volunteer, or to enter the “King of the Wing” competition call (865) 4838431 / email Zina@uwayac.org. Or go to our website to download forms: www.uwayac.org. (See full story on page 6 of this issue)
Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad. downtown Crossville. Visit www. crossvilleoktoberfest.com or call 931-707-7291 for more information. (See full story on Page 9 of this issue)
Sports
Tai Chi Society Classes. Saturday Tennis The Taoist Tai Chi Society® will Every Saturday of the year, there be offering two new Beginner is an informal drop-in doubles classes in Tai Chi in July. The Clinton class will meet on Thursdays from 10:00 – 11:30 at St. Therese Catholic Church, 701 Charles Seivers Blvd in Clinton. The first class will be July 2. In Oak Ridge, a new beginner class will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30 – 10:45 am, starting with an Open House and First Class on Wednesday, July 1 at 9:30 am. The class meets at the Oak Ridge Synagogue, 101 W. Madison Ln, Oak Ridge. For more information on either class, please call 482-7761 or email Saturday, September 26 Louie Bluie Music & Arts Fesoakridge.tn@taoist.org. tival, Now in its ninth year, the homegrown Louie Bluie Music Saturday, September 26 Free New Comer’s Yoga Class, and Arts Festival celebrates the 9:30 am - 11:00 am. Personalized life and enduring creative spirit of Instruction. Located in a private one of Campbell County’s most home in Oak Ridge. Pre-Registra- famous residents. The festival tion is required, space is limited. takes place on Saturday, Sepfor more informnation go online tember 26, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at to www.SereneYogaAndHealing. Cove Lake State Park in Caryville. The Louie Bluie Festival is the com or call 865-789-9731 major event of the fall season in East Tennessee, held on the grounds of Cove Lake State Park in Caryville. Upwards of 8,000 guests are anticipated to attend Monday, September 7, 2015 and enjoy a day that planners like Oak Ridge Community Band to imagine Howard would appreciLabor Day Concert - 7:00 p.m., ate. Live Music - If you sit yourA.K. Bissell Park, 1403 Oak Ridge self down at one of the festival’s Turnpike, Oak Ridge. This is a two performance stages, you’ll be free concert; bring lawn chairs or entertained from morning to night blankets for outdoor seating and by an array of talented regional enjoy refreshments from Razzleand national musicians. Since its berry’s Ice Cream Lab. End your earliest days, Louie Bluie has enLabor Day holiday weekend on deavored to present performers a good “note” with the Dixieland who reflect the diversity inherent Band, Gershwin favorites, Leroy in the East Tennessee region and Anderson, show tunes, marches, Howard Armstrong’s own life and and more. This is a great way for musical career. Each category is family and friends to celebrate the quintessentially represented in “unofficial” end of summer with this year’s musical headliners. one last summertime event! For (See complete Story on Page 5) more information visit www.orcb. org or call 865-482-3568. Fri. & Sat., October 9 &10 Crossville’s 25th Annual OktoSaturday, September 19 berfest will be held on Friday, Taste of Anderson County, October 9 from 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 Flavors from some of the area’s p.m. and on Saturday, October 10 favorite restaurants and the from 11:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the sounds of local musicians will fill Knights of Columbus Grounds, the newly renovated parking lot 2892 Hwy 70 east, 3 mile east of at Jackson Square on Saturday,
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tennis match at the Jackson Square tennis courts on Broadway Avenue in Oak Ridge. They meet at 1:30pm in the winter and 9am in the summer. Ask for the Coordinator when you arrive and you will be matched up with players of similar playing ability. If cancelled due to bad weather, a make-up match occurs on Sunday at 1:30pm. Questions? Call Rangan at 474-0519.
Theater /Arts Thru September 6 One Man, Two Guvnors. The Oak Ridge Playhouse presents One Man, Two Guvnors. Change
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Visions Magazine, September 2015, Page 59 sical. The Oak Ridge Playhouse presents The Adventures of The Christmas Story - The Musical. Based on the movie classic, the musical follows 9-year-old Ralphie and his quest for the Holy Grail of Christmas gifts—an Official Red Ryder carbine-action air rifle. Set in the 1940s Midwest, Ralphie plots numerous schemes to fulfill his desire for the cov-eted BB gun only to be constantly rebuffed with echoes of “You’ll shoot your eye out!” With tongues stuck to frozen flagpoles; Christmas at the Chinese restaurant; and the “major award,” all the iconic scenes from the film are here, along with exciting new treats for both long-time fans of the film as well as those encountering this delightful coming of age tale for the first time. For ticket information call 482-9999 or go online to www.orplayhouse.com.
see Heartland recruits, trains, and empowers volunteers to advocate on behalf of abused and neglected children in juvenile court. Our Court Appointed Special Advocates gather information, recommend services, and advocate for each child to be placed in a safe and permanent home as quickly as possible. A CASA volunteer may be the only consistent, adult presence in a child’s life. Because a CASA focuses on one family at a time, a child with a CASA volunteer is: more likely to find a safe, permanent home, more likely to be adopted, and less likely to be bounced from home to home. Last year we served 142 children in November 20 - December 6 Anderson County! Although The Christmas Story - The Muthat is a huge number, we still have 168 children waiting for someone to step up and speak “STEP UP” for CASA of the up for them. Some of these children have been waiting Tennessee Heartland Kids Count Data 2015 has for a CASA volunteer for more just been released. This data than a year! Think about the revealed that there were 160 confirmed cases of child abuse and neglect in Anderson County alone. As a result 277 Anderson County children were in DCS custody last year. Because of the growing problem of abuse and neglect in our community, CASA of the Tennessee Heartland is seeking volunteer advocates for its Anderson County program. CASA of the TennesOctober 3 &4 The Adventures of Nate the Great. The Oak Ridge Playhouse presents The Adventures of Nate the Great. Who is Nate the Great? Why, he is none other than the sharpest kid detective ever to solve his neighborhood’s mysteries! With his faithful dog, Sludge, and his loyal friends at his side, he solves important cases while always remembering to leave a note for his mother and wear his galoshes! Inspired by classic spy movies, this marvelous show for young audiences offers a unique look at the mysteries of everyday life through the magnifying glass of a child’s eye. For ticket information call 482-9999 or go online to www.orplayhouse.com. The Oak Ridge Playhouse is located at 227 Broadway Avenue in Oak Ridge.
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difference you could make if you became a CASA volunteer for one of the 168 children still on our waiting list. Now think about the difference you and two or three friends could make! By donating 1015 hours a month, you could give an abused and neglected child a voice. You could make a lasting impact in the life of a child and help them find their forever family. Training is provided and there is no prior experience is necessary. So stand up and STEP UP for CASA. Become a child’s volunteer advocate today!
The Community Calender is a Free Service of our publication and is open to a variety of FREE events in Anderson County. Events that have a charge will be published at the determination of the publisher. Deadline ti submit a calendar listing is the 20th of each month for the following month’s publication. Please email your formated calendar event to Chris@acvisionsmag.com.
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