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Apple pickin’
Up on the mountain where the horizons are below you and the sunsets will wear you out, trees are so loaded with apples you can literally hear them groan. The trees are compensating for the past two years of fruitlessness, with late frosts giving the old trees a respite. I was lucky enough to be up there for a cider pressing.
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Best of times Next week is an open date. Open dates are great. Tennessee almost never loses. Time off from regularly scheduled programming offers the opportunity to catch up with burning issues, whether to pay college football players by the hour, game or touchdown, whether they will unionize and go on strike if no cash is forthcoming and whether Arian Foster committed heresy in admitting he received under-the-table tacos as a Volunteer.
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Chantay Collins, tireless direcctor of the Maynardville Public L Lii-brary, has been creating a complex ex web site with more information on n than you could peruse in a year. At www.MaynardvillePublicLiLi-brary.org, all of the 27,000 books k in the library are catalogued. Some of those books can be downloaded to read on a tablet or listened to on your smart phone. If you find you need a book a bit longer, you can renew it. If you want a book that’s currently checked out, you can put a hold on it. Find essential information about services in Tennessee. Click on links in a comprehensive list of genealogical resources. Learn one, or several, languages for free. “I’ve been working on this for months, and we just rolled out the
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Chantay Collins’ latest project, www.MaynardvillePublicLibrary.org, is up and running.
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Living history
Battle re-enactment to be held at B Ft. Sanders replica site
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Fun at Hogskin I figured out that the performance location has a lot to do with the name of the band. I’ve seen announcements such as “Tim Buckner and Friends,” but Saturday the group was Clinch Mountain Drifters with Tim on Bass, Burl Wynn on guitar, and vocalist Alvis Pugh, whose stage name is “Hank.”
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Re-enactors “fight” The Battle of Fort Sanders at an exact replica of a recon- The view the Confederate re-enactors will have just before charging up the structed northwest bastion of the Civil War fort on Smiley Clapp’s farm near replica of the northwest bastion of Fort Sanders. Photo by Jake Mabe Corryton. Photo submitted, used by permission
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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
Catholic faith series in October Each Tuesday in October, leaders of the Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Mission will give informative talks about the Catholic Church at the mission. The hour-long talks will begin at 7 p.m. and will cover topics such as the history of the church, the Bible and sacraments. On Tuesday, Oct. 22, Seminarian William Obiero from Kenya will speak about the religion’s diversity across the world and how Kenyans express their Catholicism. The series is titled “Curious About Catholics.” Refreshments will be available.
Nestled on Smiley Clapp’s 150acre Corryton farm is a perfect piece of Civil War paraphernalia. And, no, I’m not talking about a cannon. Built in 2007, the northwest bastion of Fort Sanders (originally located near 17th Street on the UT campus and lost in the
early 1900s) has been replicated to scale. It’s a sight you have to see. Clapp says that famed “Heartland Series” producer Steve Dean was looking for land free of power lines and houses that resembled the Fort Sanders of the 1860s to shoot a video for McClung Museum. Blalock Construction had
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and depth based on descriptions by the fort’s engineer, U.S. Capt. Orlando M. Poe. “You look up that hill and see just what the Confederates saw in 1863,” Clapp says. Noted Civil War battlefield expert Ed Bearss said as far as he To page 2
Heritage Festival is today Pickin’, whittlin’ and seed spittin’ Here it comes … Union County’s biggest event of the year, the Heritage Festival, today, Oct. 5. The festival will encompass activities at Wilson Park, Union County Museum, and Union County Arts. The event is open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. A shuttle bus will run every 30 minutes to the three festival venues, and a tram from the high school parking lot will save steps. Admission is free. In the tradition of all Union County gatherings, talented pickers and singers will be jamming throughout the festival.
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agreed to help with the project if the site was located near one of its projects. As it happens, Blalock was building a bridge near Clapp’s farm. Lincoln Memorial University professor Dr. Earl Hess served as a consultant to make sure the northwest bastion of the fort was built to the original’s exact height
Sarah Morgan, Union County’s national champion mountain dulcimer player, will perform at the Heritage Festival. Photo by Libby Morgan
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At Wilson Park, live music will be performed onstage by Union County’s own Gospel Strings; Brenda Beeler (if she don’t make your spine tingle, you ain’t got one); singer/guitarist Tommy White; country-rock band Snake Holler with Grainger County songwriter Caleb Slade Johnson at the helm; Praise Invasion and Kelsey Cate, winner of the Luttrell Bluegrass Festival musical competition. Sarah Morgan, our national champion mountain dulcimer To page 2
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