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Jury Fest ahead for craft guild The Foothills Craft Guild is accepting new member applications from fine craft artisans for its second Jury Fest to be held Wednesday, Aug. 12, with take-in days Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 10-11. Info/application: Bob Klassen, bobklassen@charter.net, or www.foothillscraftguild. org under the “How to Join” section.
Red Gate Rodeo The annual Red Gate Festival and Rodeo will be held Friday and Saturday, July 17-18, at Red Gate Farm in Maynardville. Carnival starts at 5 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday. Rodeo starts at 8 p.m. each day. Admission is $15 for adults, $8 for kids 4-10 years old, and free for kids age 3 and under. Info: www.redgaterodeo. com or 992-3303.
By Sara Barrett Dr. Ellen Hamby, clinical associate professor for the University of Tennessee Speech and Hearing Center, worked mainly with stroke patients prior to visiting the day program of Open Arms Care in 2010. Hamby and her graduate students find ways for people with impeded communication skills to connect with those around them. “When I first came to Open Arms, I didn’t have a lot of experience with the population,” said Hamby of the nonprofit’s 64 residents and the challenges they face. They each have limited communication skills in the “usual” sense due to degenerative disease such as Parkinson’s or disorders including Shaken Baby Syndrome. Hamby quickly discovered there were other ways the residents could say what they want or need. It could be as simple as taking someone’s hand or a certain expression on their face. Hamby and her students assess the abilities and personalities of
UT Speech and Hearing Center graduate student clinician LaKala Steele watches Open Arms Care resident Darlene Elmore read words from UT clinical associate professor Ellen Hamby’s iPad. Photos by Sara Barrett Open Arms residents regularly resident reacts positively by facial to find ways of improving their expression to male figures, which quality of life. For instance, one suggests she might respond better
IN THIS ISSUE Betty Bean says Dr. Jim McIntyre had a most unhappy week, and she lists the reasons why in a column titled, “McIntyre’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.” And this week could be even worse.
By Nancy Anderson
Read Betty Bean on page A-4 Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett christens the Karns Convenience Center by tossing a can into the aluminumrecycling bin. Pictured are commissioner Bob Thomas, Burchett and commissioners Jeff Ownby, Brad Anders and John Schoonmaker. Photo by Nancy Anderson
Ruckers treat at Cedar Bluff When Sparky Rucker was a child, segregation barred him from all but one library in his hometown. Now, some 60 years later, he and his wife, Rhonda, tour libraries across the country telling tales and bringing history alive through folk music.
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Name controversy won’t go away The decision of the UT Board of Trustees not to hear comments on the name change for most women’s athletics at last week’s Knoxville meetings handed state Rep. Roger Kane a perfect and understandable reason to take it to the Legislature. He can now say the entire UT leadership has declined to give 45 lawmakers and thousands of citizens a day in a public setting to express their views.
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By Betty Bean One Saturday evening in 1958, I settled down in front of the TV at my grandparents’ house to watch “The Gray Ghost,” which celebrated Col. John Mosby, a dashing Confederate whose raiders rode rings around dimwitted Yankees to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” I loved that show. But Mosby didn’t have time to draw his sword when my granddad came barreling out of the kitchen and told me to find something else to watch. “Why?” I asked. “Because it’s treason,” he said. “And I despise it.” I didn’t know what treason was, but I’ve remembered this small incident for more than 50 years, although it took decades for me to understand what it was really about:
It was the voice of my greatgrandfather, challenging me to come find him. He stayed in my ear no matter how many times I saw “Gone With the Wind.” Here’s what I knew: John Alexander Bean was a Union Army veteran, but he was no Yankee. He was a straight-line descendant of the long hunters who’d migrated down from Virginia and settled near Jonesborough. Russell Bean was the first white child born in Tennessee. Russell’s father, Captain Billy Bean, and at least one of his uncles rode 150 miles with John Sevier to whip the British at King’s Mountain and later moved on down the valley to Bean Station and Knox County. A rowdy, restless bunch, some of the Beans continued westward (Judge Roy Bean was a distant relation), but others, like John A’s grandfa-
William Rule, Union Army veteran, newspaper reporter and Parson Brownlow protégé who later founded the Knoxville Journal, wrote the most succinct account of what it was like to make the long walk to Cumberland Gap and described it in great detail here: ht t p:// babel.hat h it r u st.org/cg i/pt?id=loc.a rk:/139 60/ t5r78r69k;view=1up;seq=21 Information about the Sixth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, including rosters, is here: tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa6inf.html
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The new Karns Convenience Center opened June 24 to the relief of many residents frequently caught in blocked traffic near the old convenience center on Oak Ridge Highway. The new facility is larger, more efficiently designed and traffic friendly. According to Michael Grider, director of communications for Knox County, the center is designed to offer more services such as Goodwill drop-off and increased recycling opportunities
including cardboard, tires and oil. Recycling revenue is earmarked to offset $2 million annual operating costs. County Commissioner John Schoonmaker, who represents District 5, seemed impressed with the new facility, saying, “I think the best part is people will be able to basically zoom in, drop and zoom out. I doubt there will be a delay. “There’s also safer access off the main highway. That’s a major To page A3
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ther (also named John and a veteran of the War of 1812) stayed put. That distant John Bean’s grave is in the Living Waters Baptist Church graveyard. I’d heard that John A had declined an invitation to join the Confederate Army and walked all the way to Cumberland Gap to join the Union Army and that he’d been taken prisoner, escaped and gotten so hungry that he’d boiled an old boot in hopes of getting it tender enough for dinner, and that when his children expressed disgust at the notion of trying to eat a boot, he’d snap: “It used to be a cow, didn’t it?” I’d heard that his biggest regret was missing the chance to shake hands with Abraham Lincoln. I knew he was a stonecutter by trade and that he’d lost his arm much later in life after he knelt to pray at the funeral of another old soldier, reached down to steady himself on a grave marker and got bitten by a black widow spider. My father remembered that his grandfather always wore a suit and could tie his shoelaces one-handed. I didn’t give those stories much thought or credence until the Internet age afforded me the means to chase them down. And what I found is that most of them were pretty close to the truth.
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John Alexander Bean, Private, Sixth Tennessee Infantry, USA John A was 18 when he enlisted in the Sixth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Brigade on April 18, 1862, in Knoxville, an occupied city seething under the burden of sharply divided loyalties. He stood 5-9, had dark hair and gray eyes and was officially mustered in and assigned to Company D, which was composed entirely of Knox Countians and led by Captain Marcus Bearden, on April 23, in Boston, Ky., near Louisville. This means he enlisted, covered some 70 miles of rough, enemyoccupied terrain on foot from the family farm in Ebenezer to reach Cumberland Gap and was conveyed to Boston in five days’ time. Military records say he’d been To page A-3
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