VOL. 52 NO. 31
PHS valedictorian wins state award
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One of Powell High School art teacher Lee Jenkins-Freels’ first experiences with an exceptionally talented student presented a special challenge. She was at South-Doyle then, and had a student who specialized in beautiful environmental photographs of Cades Cove. He had already won great acclaim for his work, but JenkinsFreels knew he could do more.
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Looking ahead – with caution Butch Jones has spent so much time looking forward, pouring a foundation and building brick by brick, there just wasn’t much time left for looking back. Jones may not realize what all happened at Vanderbilt on the evening of Nov. 17, 2012 – a rout so bad the benevolent James Franklin told the mighty Commodores to take a knee to avoid running up the score
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Byy Betty B Bet ett tty ty Bean Bea ean n Zachary Henry put an exclamation point on a brilliant high school career with a trip to New York City to collect his award as winner of the Tennessee Art Education Association’s statewide K-12 art competition. Zachary, the valedictorian of Powell High School’s Class of 2013, was accompanied on the all-expenses paid trip by his mother, Elizabeth Henry, and the art teacher who encouraged him to enter the contest, Lee Jenkins-Freels. Sponsored by Sargent Art, the competition’s theme was “Art is the connecting link.” Zachary Henry Zachary’s submission was a Prismacolor drawing featuring iconic images – Davy Crockett, a mockingbird, the American Gothic couple and a clump of purple iris – linked to a high-tech microscope. This weekend, he will load up his car and head off for Starkville, Miss., to enroll at Mississippi State University to study architecture. He chose MSU over many other options (he was offered a total of nearly $900,000 in scholarships), and his runner-up school was Pratt Institute in New York City. He’ll be leaving behind his mom, father Eddie Henry and brother Jacob Henry, a sophomore at Powell High School whom he identifies as “my best friend,” even though they have very different interests. “Jacob is on the football and wrestling
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Elementary ‘sneak peak’ Powell Elementary School plans a “sneak peak” from 6-7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8, and the PTA will host a popsicle party on the playground from 6:30 to 7:30 Regina Overton-Barnes, president, said the PTA hosted an event for teachers at the Cricket pool in Broadacres on Sunday. “This is the first time we have ever done this and we are super-excited.”
Knox County Watershed Coordinator Roy Arthur says that Beaver Creek qualifies as a blueway under unofficial criteria. “There are no official criteria,” Arthur says, “except for ones established by organizations Roy Arthur such as the Sierra
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teams,” Zachary says. “He doesn’t do art and I don’t do sports, but we are really close. I love my brother, and I said in my valedictory speech that he’s that brick wall I always argue with. We argue about everything.” Zachary has a tight group of friends he’ll be saying goodbye to, as well. “I’m very excited, but also really sad. I’ve had the same best friends for seven years and they’re all staying here – or close – and I’m the only one moving away.” He chose MSU because it has a board-accredited school of architecture and because he was offered a full scholarship there. He believes he is well-prepared for the field he has chosen because he took all the art class-
Club.” Arthur says the four unofficial criteria are: 1. The waterway is designated as “waters of state,” i.e. the state owns the water. 2. The waterway has to be navigable by small watercraft. Debris jams must be taken down. 3. The waterway has to have launch points. 4. The waterway has no posted water hazards (bacteria like e coli).
A new look at an old story By Betty Bean Charles Faulkner slowed his Prius to a crawl as he topped the ridge on Broome Road a short distance from Middlebrook Pike. This, he said, is probably where the Cherokee scouts stood early on the morning of Sept. 25, 1793, and spotted smoke from the fireplace of Alexander Cavett’s fortified cabin in the woods below. They were part of a massive war party – said to number 1,000 warriors – who had marched all night, bypassing Campbell Station to stay on schedule to launch a dawn attack on Knoxville, which was sparsely defended and could not have withstood such an assault. Ravenous mosquitos are the only danger facing modern day visitors to the old Mars Hill graveyard a short distance below the spine of the ridge. Contrary to the inscription on
the monument placed there in 1921 by the Tennessee Sons of the Revolution, Faulkner is quite certain that this spot wasn’t the site of the Cavett Station massacre, where 11 Cavett family members and two militia sent by John Sevier to protect them were slaughtered. He believes the cabin stood some distance down the hill, just above one of several springs that form Sinking Creek and are now hidden behind the well-kept homes at the entrance to the Cavett Station subdivision, a few yards west of the intersection of Alexander Cavett Drive and Doublehead Lane. “My wife, kids and all kinds of people went out there to help. We worked for two summers doing shovel testing, digging holes on a grid, down to the subsoil. We didn’t find it. The location is rather vague, but there’s still enough information that we knew the approximate location. That area is covered with subdivisions now,” Faulkner said. He has written a new book (his fourth), called “Massacre at Cavett Station: Frontier Tennessee during
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“Beaver Creek meets all four criteria. A final decision to designate it as such will have to be made by Knox County.” Arthur said the county is exploring a first phase, which would be from Harrell Road Park to Northwest Sports Park in Karns, “to see how that goes.” “Then a second phase might be from Clayton Park in Halls to Dry Gap Pike. “There are about 40 miles of
the Cherokee Wars,” published by the University of Tennessee Press. It’s already available on Amazon and will be in bookstores soon. In it, he debunks old rumors and presents a balanced view, including the grievances of the Cherokee, who had been driven by a
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es he could in high school, as well as math courses. “Math is one of my favorite subjects. I really, really like small meticulous things. When I do my art, l like mathematically-composed art because it’s so detailed. Everything has to be perfect. I’m always the last one to finish.” Recently, Zachary has entered a new field – clothing design. “I’m a graphic artist for my uncle Tim Nagle, who owns a t-shirt business. I’m going to have my own line of clothing at Nothing Too Fancy downtown, and it will be different kinds of t-shirts commemorating Knoxville and surrounding areas.” To page A-3
Beaver Creek’s main stem that are navigable. So, you could potentially have a blueway that entire length. Wouldn’t that be wonderful to put in at Clayton Park and kayak all the way to Melton Hill Lake? Some of it even has rapids.” Arthur says no tax dollars are being spent on the exploratory project and that county employees are clearing debris jams in their spare time. “That also has a positive effect on flooding.”
The Cavett Station Massacre
Gospel singing is Saturday night Powell Playhouse will host Singing in the Neighborhood 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, at Jubilee Banquet Hall on Callahan Drive. Performers include Jamie Wells, Bryan Yow, Gerald Satterfield, Ben Burnette, The Inmans, the New Heights Gospel Quartet, Rebecca Armstrong and poet Frank Denkins. Coffee and cobbler will be served. Admission is $10 at the door.
Zachary Henry’s award-winning Prismacolor drawing Photo submitted
Beaver Creek qualifies as ‘blueway’
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series of land grabs and betrayals at the hands of the whites to unite with the more militant Creeks and the Chickamauga Cherokee from Alabama, North Georgia and the Chattanooga area. To page A-3
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