GUIDEBOOK / SPRING EDITION 2015
DISCOVER VOL. 5 — ISSUE 1
Hawkins County’s heritage boasts
Roots of American Music
Rogersville in Bloom Local Artists Gallery
See Old Time Music Performed Live
featuring art, crafts, classes and gifts
still going strong half a century later
Ebbing and Flowing Spring United Methodist Church Cherokee Lake
Charlie Chase
Derrick Snavely
in Hawkins County venues
Greer Brothers celebrating 50 years in country music
Ralph Stanley’s career impacted Hawkins County - and vice versa
an entertainment source for many each year “If it has fins and swims, I want to catch it.”
Finalists from NBC’s ‘The Voice,’ others coming to Rogersville
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CONTENTS | spring 2015
DISCOVER
Hawkins County Discover Hawkins County is published semi-annually by Hawkins County Publishers, Inc. P.O. Box 100 | Rogersville, TN 37857 www.discoverhawkinscounty.com 423-272-7422
MANAGEMENT Tommy Campbell Editor & Publisher
Joel Spears Managing Editor
Pat Smith Circulation Manager
Sharon Roberts Business Manager
EDITORIAL Jim Beller Contributing Writer
Wade Littleton Contributing Writer
ADVERTISING Abby Swearingen Marketing Consultant
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Advertising rates and information available upon request. Story suggestions, inquiries should be made to news@discoverhawkinscounty.com ON THE COVER: A peaceful Appalachian scene, few would realize this little cabin is set among the trees in one of Downtown Rogersville’s historic neighborhoods. The house is part of a property owned by the Richardson Family, credited by locals for the restoration of several historic structures in the Downtown Rogersville area. — Photo by Sheldon Livesay
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Rogersville in Bloom Local Artists Gallery featuring art, crafts, classes and gifts Hawkins County’s heritage boasts
Roots of American Music See Old Time Music Performed Live in Hawkins County venues
Greer Brothers still going strong half a century later
Charlie Chase celebrating 50 years in country music
Ralph Stanley’s career impacted Hawkins County - and vice versa
Ebbing and Flowing Spring UM Church Cherokee Lake an entertainment source for many each year
Derrick Snavely “If it has fins and swims, I want to catch it.”
Finalists from NBC’s ‘The Voice,’ others coming to Rogersville
Welcome Letter from Tommy Campbell Newcomer’s Guide Letter from Rogersville City School, Rebecca Isaacs Letter from Hawkins County Schools, Steve Starnes Hawkins County map Springtime in Hometown America — Rogersville, Tennessee Schools & Education Manufacturer & Industries Civic Clubs / Organizations Fast Food & Fine Dining Rogersville/Hawkins County Chamber of Commerce 2015 Membership Listing 85 East Hawkins Chamber of Commerce 2015 Membership Listing 86 Advertisers
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Welcome to
Hawkins County! The magazine you hold in your hands is a twice-ayear labor of love for the staff of Hawkins County’s oldest newspaper, The Rogersville Review. In case you aren’t familiar with our county, we are located just a stone’s throw off I-81 between Bristol and Knoxville, nestled among the hills and valleys of beautiful northeastern Tennessee. If history is your “thing”, you’ll find plenty of it hereabouts. The historic Courthouse in Rogersville (one of the oldest in the state, and which many first-time visitors mistakenly think is a church because of its bell steeple), to the Rogers Cemetery where the founders of Rogersville (Joseph and Mary Amis Rogers), and the grandparents of Davy Crockett are buried, to the Archie Campbell Museum at Bulls Gap (containing many artifacts of the iconic landscape artist and Grand Ole Opry and Hee Haw star), to historic Laurel Run Park at Church Hill (where the 1984 movie “The River”, starring Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek and Hawkins County’s own Shane Bailey was filmed), there’s more than enough to fill up several days’ worth of your time. Throw in all of the county’s Revolutionary and Civil War landmarks, the Railroad Depot and Printing Museum (which houses exhibits on Tennessee’s very first newspaper, published right here in Rogersville), and you could spend a week or more just focusing on the wealth of fascinating historic sites in our county. This spring, historic downtown Rogersville will come alive with the sights, sounds, and smells of activities during the month-long “Rogersville In Bloom” celebration. Recreational opportunities abound, too, from hiking trails that wind along mountain streams and waterfalls in Laurel Run Park, to boating, fishing and other water-related activities on the Holston River and Cherokee Lake. The natural beauty of Hawkins County shines brightly throughout all four seasons. Springtime flowers bring a constant burst of color around every corner, while the mild summers are a true blessing. Fall is an explosion of changing colors as oaks, hickories, maples, gums and other deciduous trees paint the mountainsides with a patchwork quilt of reds, oranges, yellows and purples. Winter brings snowfalls which turn the hills and valleys into quiet, peaceful worlds of white against the backdrop of fields, pastures, and century-old barns.
Hawkins County is home to many outstanding artists, bluegrass musicians and craftsmen whose talents are known far outside the boundaries of northeastern Tennessee. Rogersville, for instance, is the home of country music personality Charlie Chase (of “Crook and Chase”), and many country and bluegrass music legends of yesterday and today have “roots” in our region. Walk Historic Rogersville’s downtown streets and visit in the antique, art, and crafts shops where you will find everything from modern-day creations to 200-year old treasures. But the most important attraction Hawkins County has to offer is its people. Folks hereabout truly care about each other, and welcome newcomers as friends and neighbors. It is obviously outside the scope of this magazine to focus in one issue on every single attraction and event that our county has to offer, but we hope to have piqued your interest and shown you just a small sampling of what Hawkins County has to offer residents and visitors alike. If you are traveling one of our Interstates and pick up this guide, please accept this as our personal invitation to come and visit ... to “sit a spell” on our “front porches”, walk our streets, shop with our local merchants, sample the fine local foods, and enjoy everything about Hawkins County, from Clinch Mountain on the west to Bulls Gap on the east, and from Allandale/Kingsport in the north to Mooresburg in the south. We welcome you to our home and we truly hope that after one visit you will want to come back ... again and again ... to vacation, live, or retire. Sincerely,
Tommy Campbell Publisher & Editor The Rogersville Review
A Newcomer’s Guide to Hawkins County POST OFFICES Rogersville — 37857 203 West Main Street (423) 272-8096 Bulls Gap — 37711 410 Highway 11E (423) 235-2100 Mooresburg — 37811 110 Loretta Lane (423) 272-2253 Eidson — 37731 3867 Highway 70N (423) 272-6769 Surgoinsville — 37873 111 Bellamy Avenue (423) 345-3211 Church Hill — 37642 131 East Main Boulevard (423) 357-5239 Mount Carmel — 37645 100 East Main Street (423) 357-3311
DRIVER LICENSE AND LICENSE PLATE INFORMATION • New residents holding a valid outof-state driver license must obtain a Tennessee driver license no later than 30 days after establishing residency. All out-of-state licenses must be surrendered. • New residents must provide two proofs of their current Tennessee residence as well as proof of citizenship and a Social Security Number. • Hawkins County residents can renew driver licenses at the county clerk’s office in Rogersville. • For more information contact the Hawkins County Clerk at (423) 272-7002.
VOTING INFORMATION • The Hawkins County Election Commission office is responsible for registering county residents so they will be eligible to vote in the primary, general and, if applicable, municipal elections held for the county,
incorporated cities, state and federal government. • The office is also responsible for providing county residents with locations and equipment to cast their vote in the elections. • Hawkins County is located in: - 1st Congressional District - 9th State House of Rep. District - 8th State Senatorial District - 3rd Judicial District • For additional information contact the Hawkins County Election Commission at 110 E. Main Street, Suite 301 (2nd floor) Rogersville, TN 37857. Hours are 8 a.m. - 4 p.m., Monday Friday and phone is (423) 272-8061.
BUILDING PERMITS AND OBTAINING AN ADDRESS • A building permit is required for the new construction of a one or two family residence within the county even though Hawkins County does not have county zoning. • You may apply on line and/ or obtain additional information
by logging onto tn.gov/commerce/ sfm/homebuilding/index.shtml or by calling (615) 741-7071. • To obtain an address for a parcel of property that did not previously have an assigned address, contact the mapping coordinator at Hawkins County Central Dispatch (423) 272-8999.
SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING • All municipalities in Hawkins County provide solid waste collection services for area residents. Businesses and industries are required, under the terms of a landfill contract, to obtain solid waste disposal services. County residents are required to enter into a private contractual agreement for solid waste disposal or use one of Hawkins County’s Convenience Centers. • Only solid waste generated in Hawkins County is accepted and waste from businesses, even if they are located in the county, is not accepted. continued on page 9
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Convenience Centers do not accept hazardous waste, medical waste, animal carcasses or grass and brush. Items not accepted by the convenience
centers can be taken to the Republic Services Landfill located on Carter’s Valley Road (423) 357-6777. Q: Where do I take my Recyclables?
A: Take your recyclables to the center in your community or to the Recycle Center. Q: Do you accept tires? A: You may bring eight tires per year
with no cost to you. Anything over eight tires a year costs you 70 cents each for car and pickup truck tires and $3.50 for tractor trailer tires.
Office Holders County Mayor MELVILLE BAILEY
Road Superintendent LOWELL BEAN
150 Washington Street, Suite 2 Rogersville, TN 37857 Office: 423-272-7359 / Home: 423-272-4414
144 Flora Ferry Road Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-7370
Email: melville.bailey@hawkinscountymayor.com
Register of Deeds JUDY C. KIRKPATRICK
Clerk of Courts RANDALL L. COLLIER 115 Justice Center Drive, Suite 1237 Rogersville, TN 37857 Home: 423-345-4151 / Cell: 423-754-6484 Email: randall.collier@hawkinscircuitcourt.com
General Sessions Court JUDGE J. TODD ROSS 115 Justice Center Drive, Suite 1222 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-3300 / Fax: 423-272-6682
Chancery Court JUDGE DOUGLAS T. JENKINS 100 E. Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-8150 / Fax: 423-272-7347
Juvenile Court JUDGE DANIEL BOYD 115 Justice Center Drive Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-2904
Sheriff RONNIE LAWSON 117 Justice Center Drive Rogersville, TN 37857 Office: 423-272-4848 / Home: 423-921-0404 Email: sheriff.lawson@hawkinscountytn.gov
Trustee JIM SHANKS 110 E. Main Street, Room 203
110 E. Main Street, Room 202 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-8304/3091 / Fax: 423-921-3170
Veterans Service Officer DANNY BREEDING 100 East Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-5077 / Fax: 423-272-8948
County Attorney JAMES O. PHILLIPS, III 210 East Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-7633
Election Commission DONNA SHARP Administrator of Elections KYLE LUKE LEE, JR., TERESA GREER, RALPH TRENT, JUDY WOODS TRENT, NANCY HECK, Commissioners 110 E. Main Street, Suite 301 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-8061
Emergency Management Agency GARY MURRELL, Director 407 E. Main Street, Suite B Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-8059 / 423-921-4650 Fax: 423-272-8584
Hawkins Co. Rescue Squad
Email: jimshanks@hawkinscotrustee.com
955 East McKinney Avenue Rogersville, TN 37857 Emergency: 911 / 423-272-2695 Email: info@hawinscorescuesquad.org
County Clerk NANCY DAVIS
Hawkins Co. 911 GAY MURRELL, Director
Rogersville, TN 37857 Office: 423-272-7022 Home: 423-345-3545 / Cell: 423-754-7603
110 E. Main Street, Room 204 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-7002 / Fax: 423-272-5801 Email: nancy.davis@tn.gov
Property Assessor JEFF THACKER 110 E. Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 Office: 423-272-8505 / Cell 423-384-2138 Email: jeff.thacker@cot.tn.gov www.assessment.state.tn.us
East Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 Non-emergency: 423-272-7532 423-272-8999 www.hawkinscounty911.com
HAWKINS CO. COMMISSIONERS DISTRICT 1 DWIGHT CARTER 423-357-3618 SYBLE VAUGHAN TRENT Home: 423-245-2253 / Cell: 423-956-7327 Email: sv719@yahoo.com
Clerk and Master HOLLY H. JAYNES 100 E. Main Street, Suite 316 Rogersville, TN 37857 Office: 423-272-8150 E-mail: Holly.Jaynes@tncourts.gov
EUGENE CHRISTIAN 423-246-6794 DISTRICT 2 B.D. CRADIC 423-256-2250 FRED CASTLE Home 423-357-3559 / Cell 423-292-7448 JEFF BARRETT 423-357-8651
DISTRICT 3 DANNY ALVIS 423-345-3519 GREG FLETCHER 423-293-2791 STACY VAUGHAN 423-345-0313 DISTRICT 4 LINDA KIMBRO 423-345-2028 DAWSON FIELDS 423-272-5271 JOE MCLAIN 423-345-3734 DISTRICT 5 GLENDA DAVIS 423-272-4514 MARK T. LINKOUS 423-754-3974 Email: marktlinkous@gmail.com
JOHN C METZ 423-272-6744 DISTRICT 6 SHANE BAILEY Home: 423-272-9797 / Cell: 423-754-0009 Email: shanebailey@charter.net
DARRELL GILLIAM Cell 423-754-7714 Email: dwg496@yahoo.com
GARY W. HICKS, JR. Home 423-921-8059 / Cell: 423-327-4400 Email: garyhicksjr@att.net
DISTRICT 7 CHARLIE NEWTON 423-272-6995 ROBERT A. PALMER 423-235-6337 MICHAEL J. HERRELL Cell: 423-754-5405 / Home: 423-272-0108 Facebook: www.facebook.com/Michael-J-Herrell Email: michaelherrelld7@gmail.com
MUNICIPAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS
Church Hill Police Department CHIEF MARK JOHNSON P.O. Box 366 Church Hill, TN 37642 423-357-7181 Fax: 423-357-8403
Mount Carmel Police Department CHIEF JEFF JACKSON 100 E. Main Street Mount Carmel, TN 37645 423-357-4141 / Fax: 423-357-1184 www.mountcarmelcity.com/police
Rogersville Police Department CHIEF DOUG NELSON 106 Kyle Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-7555 / Fax: 423-272-3974
Surgoinsville Police Department CHIEF JAMES HAMMONDS 120 Old Stage Road Surgoinsville, TN 37873 423-345-4775 / Fax: 423-345-4775
Kingsport Police Department CHIEF DAVID A. QUILLIN 225 West Center Street Kingsport, TN 37660 423-229-9423
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Bean Station Police Department CHIEF BRYCE D. JUSTICE 785 Main Street Bean Station, TN 37708 865-993-5155
FEDERAL LAWMAKERS SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER Washington Office 455 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: 202-224-4944 / Fax: 202-228-3398 www.alexander.senate.gov
Knoxville Office U.S. Courthouse 800 Market Street, #112 Knoxville, TN 37902 Phone: 865-545-4253 / Fax: 865-545-4252
SENATOR BOB CORKER Washington Office 425 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: 202-224-3344 / Fax: 202-228-0566 www.corker.senate.gov
Knoxville Office 800 Market Street, Suite 121 Knoxville, TN 37902 Phone: 865-637-4180 / Fax: 865-637-9886 Tri-Cities Office: 1105 East Jackson Blvd., Suite 4 Jonesborough, TN 37659 Phone: 423-753-2263 / Fax: 423-753-3679
CONGRESSMAN PHIL ROE Washington, DC Office 407 Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-6356 / Fax: 202-225-5714 www.roe.house.gov Kingsport Office PO Box 1728 Kingsport, TN 37662 Phone: 423-247-8161 / Fax: 423-247-0119 Morristown Office 1609 College Park Drive, Suite 4 Morristown, TN 37813 Phone: (423) 254-1400 / Fax: 423-254-1403
STATE REPRESENTATIVES SENATOR FRANK S. NICELEY 301 6th Avenue North Suite 9, Legislative Plaza Nashville, TN 37243 615-741-2061 / Fax: 615-253-0255 sen.frank.niceley@capitol.tn.gov
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE HARRISON 301 6th Avenue North Nashville, TN, 37243 615-741-7480 rep.mike.harrison@legislative.state.tn.us
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A message from
Rebecca C. Isaacs Director, Rogersville City School
Thank you for your interest in Rogersville City School, the crown jewel of the beautiful and historic Town of Rogersville, Tennessee. Our campus, located off West Broadway in the heart of historic Rogersville, was once the site of higher learning, providing a picturesque setting for the Odd Fellows Female and later Synodical Colleges. The Town of Rogersville purchased the historic property in 1919 and erected a public elementary/high school that was destroyed by fire in 1928. A new structure was built the following year and still stands as “the beautiful old girl of Rogersville.” Additions in the 1950s, the 1970s, and 2000 enhanced the facility and provided much needed classroom space. Rogersville City School is one of Tennessee’s premier school districts, serving PreK-8th grade students only in a one-school setting. City School’s nearly 650 students are served in one PreK class, four classes in each grade from kindergarten through sixth, and three classes each in seventh and eighth grades. Eighth grade students transition to Cherokee High School in neighboring Hawkins County and are frequently some of its most successful students. Rogersville City School is recognized statewide for its academic excellence. Our 2014 state report card showed straight A’s for the eighth consecutive year in all content areas – reading, math, science, and social studies. Value added, which measures a student’s growth from one year to the next, was in the A category for each subject area, as well. RCS outperformed the state as a whole on the most recent TCAP administration. With the state scoring 49.5% in reading, RCS scored 65.7%. This score was the fourth highest in the state behind the highly regarded Williamson County, Maryville City, and Franklin City school districts. In math, RCS scored 61.6% with the state scoring 51.3%, a 23rd ranking of the state’s 136 school districts. Science scores for the state were 63.6% and 80.4% for RCS, an eighth place ranking in that content area. RCS social studies scores were 96.1% - 11.1 percentage points higher than the state as a whole and a third place ranking overall. Tennessee Value-Added Assessment rankings showed last year’s eighth grade class was 82% proficient or advanced in social studies, the highest in the state and 25 percentage points higher than that class’s scores in third grade. In reading, 75% of eighth graders scored proficient or advanced, the second highest in the state and 21 percentage points higher than scored in third grade. Science scores at 67% proficient or advanced were 14th in the state with a five percentage point improvement since third grade. Math scores for graduating eighth graders were 65% proficient or advanced, 22nd best in the state (out of 136 school districts). That score was six percentage points higher than that class scored in third grade.
Eighth grade students at RCS take the ACT Explore exam annually. The latest scores from that assessment indicate that our students outperformed the national average in all four content areas. Three students made a perfect score in English, and one student each scored perfect marks in reading and science. RCS students not only excel in the classroom but also in fine arts and athletics. Talented musicians, singers, artists, orators, and athletes bring constant accolades to our school and are great sources of pride in our homes, our community, and our school. We are appreciative that The Rogersville Review chronicles their performances and successes. Great leadership is reflected in successful schools. Rogersville City School is indeed blessed by the support it receives from the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of our Town. The Board of Education in Rogersville, Reed Matney - Chairman, Todd Biggs - Vice Chairman, Barbara Combs, Gerald Trent, and Dr. Scott Trent, provide a vision whereby Rogersville City School produces a studentcentered, academically-enriched program and collaborates with families and the local community to challenge learners and promote excellence for all. The Rogersville Police Department supports school safety and is a constant presence in our building and at our extra-curricular events. We are thankful for the leadership and support of all these important community-minded entities. Excellence is certainly reflected at Rogersville City School in its outstanding staff. Teachers, support staff, supervisors, administrators, and this superintendent strive for excellence for every child every day and live our motto ... Every Child Matters. Rogersville City School is a community school, a reflection of this great Town. Thank you for your interest in our Town, our school, and our children – our greatest source of pride. For more information about our school, including enrollment information and requirements, please visit our website at www.rcschool.net or call our office at 272-7651.
Rebecca Isaacs
116 Broadway Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-7651
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A message from
Steve Starnes Director, Hawkins County Schools Welcome to the Hawkins County School System. Thank you for taking the time to learn more about our system. The Hawkins County School System is comprised of 18 schools and one alternative school, Pathways Alternative School. Our schools are located in the towns and cities of Bulls Gap, Rogersville, Surgoinsville, Church Hill, Mt. Carmel, and surrounding communities and we serve seven thousand students. Our eighteen schools are composed of 11 elementary schools, four middle schools, two comprehensive high schools and a kindergarten through twelfth grade school located in the beautiful Clinch Valley. Our hard working and dedicated staff works extremely hard each and every day to accomplish the mission of “Educating and Graduating” each student and realizing the vision of producing graduates that are college and career ready. Our system strives to provide a quality education using the latest technologies and teaching strategies. We offer our students Advanced Placement classes, Dual Enrollment and Dual Credit classes in conjunction with area colleges with a goal toward enabling our students to compete globally. Our Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) is one of the finest around, and consistently receives superior marks in annual inspections by the Navy. We also offer a comprehensive and varied Career and Technical Education program with courses in Agriculture, Automotive Maintenance and Repair, Business and Computer Applications, Construction, Cosmetology, Criminal Justice, Culinary Arts, Digital and Printing Arts, Family and Consumer Sciences, Health Sciences, Robotics and Automation, Technology Applications, and Welding. With the recent awarding of a TN Labor Education Alignment Program (LEAP) grant, we will be adding courses in Industrial Electricity based on the needs of area industry. Also as part of this grant, we will be developing a Work Ready Diploma which will require students to meet certain criteria developed in conjunction with local employers certifying them as “work ready”. In addition, we are actively developing internships with area employers to enable our students to participate in on the job training in advanced manufacturing and health sciences. As Director of Schools, I am very proud of the many accomplishments of our schools, students, and staff. McPheeters Bend Elementary School and Mt.
Carmel Elementary School were recently recognized by the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) as two of the top three elementary schools in the State of Tennessee in student achievement and growth. The Cherokee High School Culinary Arts program was recognized by Sullivan University as a member of the Elite 50 hospitality programs in the country. Utrust of TN has recognized Hawkins County Schools as having the best Employee Appreciation Program for five consecutive years (2009-10 through 2013-14). Through the use of a continuous improvement model and data driven decisions, we are a fast improving system. Hawkins County Schools improved its graduation rate from 74.8% in 2004-05 to 91.5% in 2013-14. Our ACT composite score improved .8 points compared to a .3 improvement for the state of Tennessee. The number of students meeting all four college readiness indicators (math English, reading, and science) on the ACT increased 7% from 2012-13 to 2013-14 and the percentage of students meeting ACT Hope Scholarship eligibility (21 ACT Composite or 3.0 G.P.A.) rose 3.2% from 2012-13 to 2013-14. As a school system, we are dedicated to providing the best leadership possible for our students and our schools. We have developed a Teacher Leader program that encourages future school leaders to participate in classes, activities and studies that will serve to better prepare them for a future leadership role in our schools. In conjunction with a caring and supportive Board of Education composed of Chairman Chris Christian, Vice-Chairman Mike Williams, members Kathy Cradic, Holly Helton, Tecky Hicks, Bob Larkins, and Debbie Shedden who provide policy, planning, and fiscal oversight, we feel that Hawkins County Schools is a system on the move. We invite you to visit our website at www.hck12.net to learn more about our school system and “like” us on Facebook at Hawkins County School District to keep up with the achievements of our students. Thank you for your interest in our system.
Steve Starnes
Hawkins County Board of Education 200 N. Depot St. Rogersville, TN 37857
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Rogersville
IN BLOOM
much more. Make it a couples night out, a romantic gesture to that special someone or mix and mingle with the single. The Main Street mission is to revitalize the central business district by concentrating efforts on the development of Rogersville as a tourism, retail and cultural center. For tickets and additional information, please contact the Chamber of Commerce at 423-272-2186.
April 17, 2015
John Conlee Concert April 17 - May 31, 2015
PHOTO BY DAVID FARMER
Self-guided Driving / Walking Tour Rogersville in Bloom is a showcase of our community’s beauty and historical significance. Take a self-guided stroll or drive through beautiful Historic Rogersville and discover its hidden charms and abundance of history. The Rogersville Main Street Program comes together to welcome guests in celebrating 226 years of breath taking landscaping, rainbow-hued flowers and blossoming trees. The scenery is available for touring and photography, compliments of the Town of Rogersville and the homeowners. As you take the tour, be sure to linger awhile and enjoy the unique boutiques, art galleries, locally owned cafés and the many other attractions designed for your pleasure. Join us as we continue to embrace our history, celebrate our beauty and nurture our hometown feeling. The 2015 Walking and Driving Tour maps can be picked up at the Chamber of Commerce, Rogersville Depot, The Rogersville Review, Hale Springs Inn, Givens-Nelson Realty, LuElla’s Gift Market, Mountain Star Mall, Sunny Side Yarns, Local Artists Gallery and Miss Bea’s Perks and Pies.
April 17, 2015
‘Friends of Rogersville’ Main Street Gala Rogersville Main Street Program will be hosting a benefit Gala on April 17, 2015 at 6 p.m. at Hale Springs Inn, in Historic Downtown Rogersville. Please join us and become a ‘Friend of Rogersville’. It’s sure to be a spectacular night packed with great food and great company – not to mention fabulous music! Go ahead and put this event on your calendar! You don’t want to miss it! Tickets $50 includes: Champagne toast and light hors d’oeuvres to kick start the event, followed by fabulous dining, live entertainment, and
WRGS Radio 13.70 AM -95.4 FM presents John Conlee in concert April 17, 2015, 7 p.m. at Cherokee High School, 2917 Highway 66 South, Rogersville, TN. Country music singer John Conlee charted a total of 32 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart including his seven #1 hits: “Lady Lay Down,” “Backside of Thirty,” “Common Man,” “I’m Only in It for the Love,” “In My Eyes,” “As Long As I’m Rockin’ with You,” “Got My Heart Set on You,” and his classic hit “Rose Colored Glasses.” Ticket information 800-965-9324. Contact 423-272-3900.
April 17 - May 17, 2015
Chapter 2 Book Drive Begin a new chapter in a child’s life with the gift of literacy. Chapter 2, a division of the Rogersville Main Street Program, is an organization that celebrates children and the books they love to read. April 17 – May 17, Chapter 2 will be collecting new or gently used books for ages one to mid-teen. Books collected will be donated to area Law Enforcement to be distributed to children of domestic violence. For your convenience, books can be dropped off at these community oriented businesses; Chamber of Commerce, Civis Bank, First Community Bank, Givens-Nelson Realty, Inc., Rogersville Vision Clinic, and The Rogersville Review.
Give A Book. Change a Life. April 18, 2015
Chalk 1 Up
Sidewalk Chalk Art ‘Chalk 1 Up’ is a new way to express your creativity and love for art while supporting the Rogersville Arts Council. For a small entry fee ($5) each artist
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will be given a section of sidewalk in Downtown Rogersville and seven hours to create their own unique sidewalk chalk art. The art will be on display throughout the festival, or until Mother Nature erases it! There will be blue ribbons for best in show for ages under 10; 11 to 17; and adult. This event will take place on Saturday, April 18, 2015, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. So come out and enjoy your art on “Chalk 1 Up” For Rogersville! For additional information contact Jim Begley at JKBegley@aol.com or 423-293-0882.
Rogersville in Bloom Ladies Tea Social
April 18, 2015
Asbury Days
Amis Historic Site Asbury Days, April 18, 2015, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Dedication of the Amis House as official United Methodist historic site, by Holston District Bishop. Bishop Asbury was one of the Bishops sent from England to establish the Methodist religion in the new world. Bishop Asbury visited and stayed at the site four times while evangelizing the district and establishing the Methodist Church in Tennessee. Living history trail camp from 1790 era will be set up on site. Contact 423-272-7040 for additional information, or visit our website at www.amismill.com.
April 20 - May 20, 2015
‘Through the Eyes of a Child’
Spring is in the air so enjoy the weather and join us for afternoon tea. Enjoy gourmet teas, a light lunch, desserts, flavors, activities and fellowship. Ladies of all ages are welcome! Afterwards, take a selfguided stroll through beautiful Historic Rogersville and discover hidden charms and history. The Tea Social will take place on April 25, 2015, 2 p.m., Hale Springs Inn, Small Dining Room. $15 per person. Due to limited space, reservations are required. Call 423-272-5171 for more information.
April 25, 2015
Feast Around Town
An Ole Fashioned Hoe-down Please join us for an Ole Fashioned Hoe-down Saturday, April 25, 2015, 5:30 p.m., Shepherd’s Center parking Lot (or National Guard Armory in the event of inclement weather. $25 includes a complete barbecue meal, foot stomping blue grass, cloggers, and hoe-downing. Contact the Shepherd’s Center for tickets or to become a sponsor, call 423-921-8044.
April 27, 2015
Art Exhibit Children’s Art Show Exhibit, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Explore the vivid imagination of children, as they express their creativity through paintings, drawings and collages. Promoting creativity through art helps develop a child’s intelligence and personality and gives the children the opportunity to express a personal statement about their uniqueness. Art builds a feeling of independence, confidence and an eagerness to learn. Please join us as we celebrate the arts! Host banks where students’ art will be displayed include: Capitol Bank, Civis Bank, First Community Bank and US Bank.
April 25, 2015
Earth Day
2015 - Earth Day’s 45th Anniversary Earth Day is our annual reminder to slow down and appreciate the bounty of the earth. Please join us from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. in the Courtyard of the Historic Hale Springs Inn for special crafts and activities as we encourage children to create objects from natural and recycled materials and spend more time outdoors. Admission and activities are free and most appropriate for children 4 to 14 years old, and must be accompanied by an adult. Limited to 30 children. Sponsored by Givens-Nelson Realty, Inc. Please contact Melissa Nelson at 423-272-4660 to register children.
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RHA Salad Luncheon
Salads, salads and more salads ... oh, and desserts, too! The Rogersville Heritage Association will sponsor their annual Salad Luncheon fundraiser on Monday, April 27, 2015. This unique community event will be held at the Historic Hale Springs Inn, in Downtown Rogersville from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. The Salad Luncheon will feature a variety of delicious homemade salads and desserts, which will be prepared by generous volunteers and supporters. An $8 donation is requested for the ‘all-you-can-eat’ salads, dessert and beverage. Carry out orders will also be available for your convenience. The Salad Luncheon offers an opportunity to use your lunch hour to support the Rogersville Heritage Association. Everyone is invited to attend. Experience outstanding homemade foods while enjoying fellowship of friends. If you would like to donate a salad or dessert for the Salad Luncheon call 423-272-1961
May 2, 2015
Relay for Life The Relay For Life of Hawkins County will be May 2, 2015 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at the Rogersville City Park. The day will be filled with fun activities, entertainment, and food in a family-friendly environment for the entire community. The Survivors Lap will begin at 7 p.m. and all cancer survivors will continued on page 14
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celebrate their victory over cancer while cheered on by the other participants who line the track. Caregivers will also be celebrated for giving their time, love, and support to their friends, neighbors, and co-workers facing cancer. The Luminaria Ceremony begins at 9:30 p.m. Here we remember those we have lost to cancer, honor those who have fought cancer in the past, and support those whose fight continues. Candles are lit inside of personalized bags and are placed around the Relay track as glowing tributes to those who have been affected by cancer. The Garden of Hope, consisting of hanging flower baskets, will once again be available as another means of remembering and honoring loved ones. Everyone is welcome to come to the Rogersville City Park and join us for a memorable celebration. For more information contact Debbie Barker at 423-923-2107 or Joyce Potts at 423-923-1103.
May 6, 2015
First Wednesday Art Show Hale Springs Inn small dining room will transform into a work of art, featuring unique pieces from local artist, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m., Hale Springs Inn, Downtown Rogersville. Music and light hors d’oeuvres will be provided. Hale Springs Inn will offer ‘Rogersville In Bloom’ dinner and drink specials. Reservations are not required but suggested. For more information call 423-272-5171.
May 9, 2015
Chamber Four-Man Golf Scramble Sponsored by the Hawkins County Chamber of Commerce, 9 a.m. tee off time, McDonald Hills Golf Course in Rogersville. Prizes include: 1st Place, $400; 2nd Place, $300; 3rd Place, $200. A ‘Hole in One’ on #6 wins a new car. Prizes for Long Drive, Closest to the Pin on Par 3, putting contest and raffle prizes. Lunch will be provided. There is a $200 entry fee per team. For more information contact the Chamber of Commerce at 423-272-2186.
May 9, 2015
Local Artists Gallery Art Walk 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. We invite you to enjoy Historic Downtown Rogersville’s rich artistic culture — visit our art gallery! The art walk is a downtown event that showcases art of all forms as a way to acquaint the community to the gallery. Local Artists Gallery will host a Starving Artist Sale at the Gallery. Experience art in Local Artists Gallery and along Church Street to find great bargains and gift ideas. Local Artists Gallery in Historic Rogersville, TN showcases an outstanding selection of fine arts, including original paintings and prints, blown glass, handmade jewelry, stained glass, photography, pottery, and
sculptures of wood, stone and metal. In addition to the finer arts, there are traditional, hand-crafted items with practical uses as well — quilts, frames, Flax pax — natural grain heating pads, wooden bowls and utensils, brooms, fine furniture, baskets, gourds, naturally scented candles, decorated shirts, and hand woven wool hats, scarves and stuffed animals. For additional information, call 423-272-7656.
May 9, 2015
Margaritaville Take a trip to Paradise and bring your island spirit pirit itt ffor o an ev or evening ve of laid nn will will transform traans back fun. On May 9th at 6 p.m. , Hale Springs Inn into a ppaara rad ad tacos, tropical tropical oasis where all can enjoy cheeseburgers iinn paradise, iki bar, all while ik desserts, and a ‘lost shaker of salt’ margarita at the ttiki enjoying the sounds of Key West. th event, followed by Tickets $40 includes: Margarita toast to kick startt the or Cash bar will be delicious dining, sounds of the season, and much more. n-filled evening packed available throughout the evening. It’s sure to be a fun-fi with great company. Save the date! g rs ge rsvi villllle, vi e, pproceeds roce ro ceed ed from Sponsored by Rotary International of Rogersville, ygrroouunnd equipment yg eeqquuiippm ment ent and the en this event will go toward the funding of playground beautification of Swift Park in Rogersville, TN. Help make a difference in the community where we work, play and live. Due to limited seating, reservations will be required. For tickets and additional information, please contact Melissa Nelson 423-293-4272 or Dr. Amanda Dellinger at 423-358-3086. Remember to dress in your best Key West attire.
May 10, 2015
Rogersville in Bloom Mother’s Day Brunch All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother- Abraham Lincoln May 10, 2015, Hale Springs Inn, 11 a.m. -3 p.m. Celebrate Mom by treating her to a decadent brunch in an unforgettable setting — a memory you will never forget. Our Mother’s Day menu is nothing short of spectacular! Reservations are requested, but not required. For more information, call 423-272-5171.
May 15, 2015
Rogersville Arbor Day Celebrating with Rogersville City School 4th grade class May 15, 2015 at 1 p.m. The event will include the celebrating of planting of a tree on Town Square. Music by RCS Chorus, a poster contest and a short program. The Tree Board will award certificates for the largest trees in Hawkins County. Sponsored by the Rogersville Tree Board. For additional information, contact 423-921-8232.
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May 15, 2015
Fifth Annual Taste of Rogersville May 15, 2015, Historic Downtown Rogersville, 5 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., offering culinary delights from local restaurants! This event is for the entire family and will feature a Kids Zone with inflatables to entertain children and live music for the adults. Taste of Rogersville is a fundraising event to help the downtown community. All proceeds go to support the program and money raised is returned to the community through grants and beautification projects. Beginning May 1, tickets can be pre-purchased at a discounted rate, or can be purchased day of the event. Participating Main Street business locations are Chamber of Commerce, Givens-Nelson Realty, Inc., LuElla’s Gift Market, Mountain Star Mall and Rogersville Vision Clinic. Contact Dr. Amanda Dellinger for additional information at 423-358-3086.
May 16-18, 2015
Appalachian Spring Festival Sponsored by the Rogersville Arts Council, ‘Appalachian Spring Festival’ celebrates traditions and creativity in music, dance, storytelling, crafts and art. The American Legion grounds and indoors will be transformed into a display of artwork, and craft booths. Quilting demonstration, a mountain dulcimer workshop and corn shuck doll making will be offered throughout the weekend. Musical concerts will be held Saturday while gospel fills the air Sunday afternoon. Featured daily: ‘Tales of Electric Mountain,” written by Dr. John Lee Welton, is an original play about the coming of electricity to Appalachia. Between acts, traditional musical arts performances and lessons on English Country dance will provided. For additional information and a complete list of demonstrators, acts, and times, please contact Guerry McConnell at 423-272-8549 or 423-7546363. Festival will be held RAIN or SHINE! May 16-17 will be open to the public. May 18 is a student day only. Prepaid tickets suggested for play, dance and music events (which are inside). Call 293-0882 and leave a message.
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imaginative, and maddest friends of every age, size, and stripe. Don’t worry if your hair wants cutting. You are cordially invited to attend a mad tea party, an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Children’s themed tea. This event will take place at Miss Bea’s Perks and Pies, May 16, 2015 at 10:30 a.m., $12 per child. Due to limited seating, reservations are required by calling 423-272-6555. While children are visiting with The Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, you are encouraged to participate in the ‘Rogersville in Bloom’ self-guided walking Tour. For additional information, contact Chamber of Commerce at 423-272-2186.
May 22, 2015 — Friday Night Cruise-In
Main Street Cruise-In on the Square Downtown Historic Rogersville, 6 p.m.–10 p.m. Line-up begins at 4 p.m. Streets shut down, cars line up, music fills the air, fun begins! Pre1980 vehicles only. For additional information, call 423-272-2186.
May 23, 2015
Random Rods Car Show: Cruising Down Memory Lane The 11th Cruise Down Memory Lane Random Rod Car Show — Pre 1980 only. Dash plaques, event t-shirts, Swap Meet and concessions. Early registration is May 14th ($15), after May 14th ($20). This show will be held at the same location as previous shows at Memory Lane in Rogersville, TN. Memory Lane is located at the home of Otis and Kathy Eldridge in Rogersville, TN. The last show had over 900 cars, 70 vendors, and lots of spectators. Memory Lane is not only a car show, but is a 1950s style setting consisting of an old Studebaker Diner, an old Texaco Service Station, an old style Ford and Chrysler Dealership, old style mobile homes, a house sold by Sears and Roebuck, blacksmith shop, old school house, an old general store, the Caney Creek Church, and lots of other sights to enjoy! Entertainment is provided throughout the day and an outdoor movie (reminiscent of the old drive-in style) is shown at dark. Make your plans now to attend this show! For additional information, please call 423-921-4447, 423-272-9904 or 423-272-9904.
May 16, 2015
“Alice in Wonderland”
Children’s themed Tea Party A beautiful garden, amongst bright colored flower beds, and cool fountains, perhaps near a house with a chimney shaped like ears and a roof thatched with fur. On a table under a tree, set out as many whimsical teapots and cups and saucers as one could find, along with a motley assortment of chairs, and gather your wittiest, most
May 29, 2015
May Day A tradition of the Swift College and sponsored by the Swift Reunion Committee. May Day will take place 11 a.m. at the Rogersville City Park. Admission is free! This event will feature a DJ, Maypole event, karaoke (with prizes), and much more! Picnic lunch will be available at noon — $7 per adult and $3.50 per child. For additional information, contact any member of the Swift Reunion Committee or call 423-921-3888.
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Brooms and woodcraft by Keith Bowman
featuring art, crafts, f Wood creations by Don McClellan
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Hand carving by Gerald Ward
Oil painting, “Daily Grind” by Christine Fore
Local Artists
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ocated at 124 E. Main Street in Rogersville, Local Artists Gallery showcases a broad spectrum of local artists and their wide-ranging work. “There’s a tremendous variety,” says Lee Hoellman, gallery director and one of about 40 artists juried into the gallery to display their work. “When the first idea about jurying and getting it all going, artists who are painters tend to have a corner on the market for saying that it’s art. “Personally, I feel that art comes from expression in all sorts of medium. That’s where the jurying in comes in,” she said. So while the gallery does have acrylic, oil and watercolor paintings, it also features a variety of other creations on display for sale. “It’s great for gifts. You don’t have to come in here thinking you’re going to buy a $300 painting. Come on in thinking,‘Ooh, I could get a really unique gift for somebody.’ It’s true. We are affordable,” Hoellman said. For those who can’t fit a painting into their budget right now, there are
also prints available, as well as a large collection of greeting cards that are reproductions of paintings and even cheaper than cards at retail outlets. “We have a very large collection of jewelry of different types,” Hoellman said. “Everything from sterling silver, to different gems and stones, and even paper beads. “There is a lot of woodcarving. Gerald Ward carves walking sticks. We have photography. I do gourds, but not birdhouses, although we have some of those, too. I make lights. I carve them out and put lights in them. We have baskets, stained glass, knives,” said Hoellman, emphasizing the gallery’s wide range of affordable gifts. “Sometimes it’s hard to cater to a man, as far as gifts. But we have knives and we have a man who makes pens and pipes. They’re beautiful. They’re great continued on page 18
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Above: It’s A Wrap – paper beads by Jan Ennis. Left: A watercolor print titled, “Christmas Inn Rogersville” by Paula Bowman continued from page 17
men’s gifts. He’s made some pens using bullet shell casings. “Randy Ball makes the most beautiful knives. The handles are made out of deer antler or he uses wood, like black walnut. And he even forges some of the blades. They’re hand-made, from small knives to big Bowie knives. He’s also a photographer. He does books on his photography and a little of the history of Rogersville,” Hoellman said. Some of the items available at the gallery have practical uses as well as being aesthetically-pleasing. “Keith Bowman does broom-making and makes wooden spoons,” she said. “He makes every broom you could imagine and they work wonderfully and stay together! They are very well made and there’s a variety of many uses. He is very renowned. We are the exclusive seller of his art.” Hoellman pointed out a few other members of the gallery representing the eclectic nature of the displayed work. “Cookie McCloud does jewelry and silk flower arrangements. We have wood carvings and turnings. Terry Speaks’ turnings are absolutely gorgeous. They’re exquisite. He’s been a member from the beginning,” she said. “Elaine Highsmith owns Full Cycle Woodworks outside of Rogersville. She does beautiful benches, stools, and tables. Don McClellan also does woodworking. He has some band-saw jewelry boxes. He also makes toy chests and things like that. His things are a little more organic. He uses old barn wood and that sort of thing. Chris Prew does one-of-a-kind
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Clockwise from upper left: Karen Berg’s hypertufa sculpture; Bruce and Barry Campbell’s wood toys; Woodturning by Terry Speaks; and one of Lee Hoellman’s decorative gourds.
furniture. His art always sells out,” Hoellman said. “We’ve got the Campbell Brothers who make toys, wonderful erful old-fashioned toys that are just adorable. “Karen Berg does planters and stepping stones for your garden made from hypertufa, which is sturdy but not as heavy as concrete. Susan Voorhees, Sharon Maddix and Martha Stapleton all do pottery,” she said. “Of course we have acrylic, oil and watercolor paintings. Lorrie Adams does oil on canvas. I love her style. We have quite a few acrylic painters,” Hoellman said. Other artists whose work is on display includes Tata Andres, Stephanie Brunelle, Monica Chua Ah Humar, Julie Davidson, Vareena Dolsen, Janet Ennis, Christene Fore, Jamie and Jeremy Fore, Ron Hayes, Melissa Hull, Susan Hurley, Darlene Jones, Christine Martin, Patsy Mauk, Tulasi McClellan, Guerry McConnell, Lorna Paquin, Doris Orr, Gary Person, Sandy Robillard, Alicia Salzman, Tom Smith, Ron Smith, Carol Thomason, James Wilcon, Robyn Willman and Nathalie Wyss. “We also started a budding artist idea where we have young artists come in. I love having their work included and seeing the young people being proud of their art,” she said.
The artists who are members are in it together, Hoellman said. “We started it 10 years ago as a cooperative. It is actually still being run as that. We cooperative are not a non-profit, but it is not for profit. All the proceeds we just try to put into just keeping the place running and the artists themselves,” Hoellman explained. “The whole idea in the beginning was a place for the talent that was here in East Tennessee – most of it very close - to have a place to show and hopefully sell. This is a wonderful example of all the talent in the area. It’s all hands-on,” she said. “How it works is that an artist comes in and says, ‘I’m really interested in being one of your members.’ I hand you a piece of paper with the guidelines of who we are and what we expect from you or from what’s going on here. You bring in three pieces that you want us all to look at. I set it up upstairs and have sheets of paper that all the members are welcome to put their comments. “When there are enough comments that I feel that it’s going to work, I continued on page 21
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give you a call. At that time I give you a mini-contract thing of what you’re responsible for and what I’m responsible for,” Hoellman said. Each artist must work at the gallery one day a month and pay $40 fee per month. Ten percent of sales go back into the gallery. “We set up how much it was going to cost for rent, electric, gas, water, insurance, you know, in this day and age, the cost of living,” she said. “We really don’t make anything on the artists’ sales. Sometimes we have really hard months that if it weren’t for the membership fee, we would not be in business.”
Local Artists Gallery also offers classes. “We depend on our classes,” Hoellman said.“Upstairs we have a beautiful, huge room that we give classes in. We give children’s classes, adult classes, painting, stained glass, basket-making classes, and whatever else people are interested in.” Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday from April through December, and 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. during the winter months. It is closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. The phone number is (423) 9217656. “Just come and walk through and talk to the people here. We have some beautiful art here. Be inspired, take a class. Think about a scarf from here rather than something that’s from China, because it’s the same price. A lot of these things are the same price, but you’re helping somebody who is your neighbor. We need people supporting us,” she said.
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400 Volunteers served 116,199 people with goods and services valued at $4,354,687 in 2014 — Website:www.ofoneaccord.org
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Christmas for Children Another goal for Of One Accord is to help insure every child in our county gets Christmas and every family has a good Christmas Dinner. Patsy Hurd, Director and a host of volunteers work September through December to do four things:
The Lunchbox Emergency Food Assistance Of One Accord Ministry is a home missions organization through which church volunteers can serve our community in programs like the Emergency Food Program. Families who find themselves without food can come to one of the two Hawkins County food pantries or one in Sneedville for Emergency Assistance. Food is distributed three days a week from 10am1pm, Rogersville is also open on Tuesday night from 6pm-8pm. The ministry distributed 1,559,763 pounds of food last year to 34,484 people. This translated to 52 tractor trailer loads of groceries.
Partnership Effort The food program has become a total community project. Special thanks goes to our Boy Scouts and the Postal Letter Carriers who direct food drives here and to Food City, Super-Dollar, Food Lion, Save-A-Lot and Walmart grocery stores who donate locally. Schools, clubs, and churches do special food drives throughout the year and a host of some 200 volunteers give of their time to interview and give out food boxes. Some youth groups love to do fund-raisers that benefit the food program. By doing things like car washes or bake sales, money is raised that goes back into the food program. Every dollar goes directly towards food. October is Hawkins County Hunger Month. Call to see how you can help.
In a new innovative approach to feeding 350 kids daily in the summer, Of One Accord has developed a Mobile Cafeteria to deliver meals to low income housing districts, mobile home parks, the Boys and Girls Club and City Swimming pool for children. Volunteers are needed throughout the summer. 1. Applications will be out by the latter part of Neighborly Meals Program Five meals each week are delivered to 30 September. All applicants have to be interviewed. Seniors in the Rogersville area. More volunteers Call 272-0772 for an appointment. 2. Patsy works with every agency and church are always needed to deliver meals. 7,605 meals that already does a Christmas program to were delivered in 2014. prevent duplication. If you do a program, please Winter Coat Give-a-Way talk with Patsy to insure your names are not Another valuable service to our community duplicated on several lists. is giving away winter coats. The Shepherd’s 3. Businesses or churches are encouraged to Center gives up to 2 coats per person per year to take names, provide a party and purchase gifts struggling families. for the children you take. Call Patsy for names, The Lions and Leo Clubs partner with OOA 272-0772. to collect coats each year. 1,610 coats were given 4. Christmas for the Children for each remaining family and child. away in 2014 in Sneedville and Rogersville. 1,037 children were screened last year and Free Medical Clinic 1,769 families were provided holiday meals. A free medical clinic operates in the Church Hill Shopping Center. Help Sponsor Children Several doctors and nurses are giving their You can participate by helping us sponsor time to make a dream come true for Hawkins children at $50 per child. Each child will receive County. 1,147 office visits were recorded, 7,457 clothes as well as a toy item. free prescriptions given, You can help plan or provide a place for a and 1,639 labs done. party. Donations are taken to insure all children The free clinic are provided for and each family will have a operates the 2nd, 3rd Christmas food basket to prepare a wonderful and 4th Tuesday of each holiday meal. month and Thursdays for diabetes screenings. Market Place Needs You! The Free Clinic Of One Accord purchased the Market Place focus is to provide building to rehab the back section to house help to those without mission teams. This will be where the old Gold insurance and without Star Gym was located. jobs. Of One Accord will have to raise the funds You can call ahead (256-2408) from 5-8 pm to building sleeping quarters, bathrooms with on clinic nights for more information. showers, and a dining room, do the electric, More health care professionals are needed to plumbing and heating. Donations are being expand hours and times the clinic is open. taken to help with this $125,000 expense.
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Hawkins County’s heritage boa
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MUSI With the birthplace of country music in Bristol, the home of country music in Nashville, and the birthplace of blues and rock-n-roll in Memphis, Tennessee makes a strong case as “the State of American Music.” While the esteemed reputation of the three geographic areas is unquestionably earned, the development and continued creation of country, old-time, bluegrass, and gospel between Bristol and Nashville proved the Hawkins County area was just as fertile, if not as renowned. Appalachia was originally settled by the Scots-Irish, English, Welsh, German, and African immigrants and slaves, who brought with them some of the tunes and songs still being heard and performed today. Despite mass media’s homogenizing effect, the isolation of the hills and hollows within Appalachia has helped preserve much of the music as it was when these immigrants first came to this region, playing acoustic stringed instruments like the fiddle and banjo.
Charlie and Lester Cope
From wailing folk ballads passed down over several generations blended with the “double stop” style of fiddle — playing two strings at once with the bow to mimic the sound of the Scottish bagpipe drone — and the “clawhammer” banjo style attributed to African slaves, also called “frailing” to simultaneously provide a rhythmic accompaniment to the fiddle, and the later addition of the six-string guitar, the melded music was a mixture unique to Appalachia. Record producer Ralph Peer recognized the possibilities of the region’s music and decided to leave the recording studios in New York and travel to where the talent was: the mountains of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Peer set up a studio on the second floor of the Taylor-Christian Hat Company warehouse at 410 State Street in Bristol, then placed advertisements in local newspapers announcing the Victor Recording
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Company was in town open for business. The recording sessions began on July 25, 1927 with Ernest Stoneman of Galax, Va. leading a group called the Dixie Mountaineers recording gospel and traditional songs. Subsequent sessions recorded acts from West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee. As word of the “Bristol Sessions” spread, artists from other remote locations made the trek, including A.P. Carter and his wife Sara and his sister-in-law Maybelle from Maces Spring, Va. and Jimmie Rodgers from Asheville, N.C. Rodgers and the Carters soon became some of the earliest country music superstars, entertaining millions and influencing thousands of regional musicians and establishing Bristol as country music’s historic birthplace. “These recordings in Bristol in 1927 are the single most important event
Tex Climer, Bob Climer, Cas Walker and Carl Story
Jimmie Rogers, Maybelle, A.P. and Sara Carter in the history of country music,” said legend Johnny Cash. Bristol native Tennessee Ernie Ford started his career at WOPI radio and became a nationally-famous entertainer. Radio shows like “Farm and Fun Time” and “Barrel of Fun” launched more careers of regional musicians, including the Stanley Brothers, one of the most recorded of the genre’s early acts. (See page 41)
Hawkins County and surrounding counties produced its fair share of talent. Born in Eidson, Clay (1904), Lester (1911) and Charlie (1916) Cope would grow to become a popular brother act in East Tennessee’s rich bluegrass and country music scene. In 1931, the Cope family moved down the mountain to Bean Station, where the brothers began to play and sing at continued on page 27
Sam, Sarah and Hayden Mallory
Johnny (2nd from left) and Ray Odom (right) and the Moonlight Ramblers were “Barrel of Fun” regular.
Dolly Parton
Whitesburg’s Reece Shipley (2nd from right) and the Rainbow Valley Boys
WCYB Farm and Fun Time: Luther Henley (behind the camera), Red Malone, Curly King, Gene Cardwell and Dave Barnes continued from page 25
local social functions, becoming known as the “Bean Station Bean Beetles.” “We was the first Beetles that ever come out,” Clay Cope told Bluegrass Unlimited magazine in 1981. “When them (British) Beatles came out, they didn’t have a thing on us.” With Bean Station nearly the halfway point between Bristol and Knoxville, many musicians passed through the tiny burg, often gassing up at Clay’s service station/restaurant/barber shop. Among them were A.P., Sara and Maybelle Carter, the first family of country music. Another early star who happened through town was Roy Acuff, whom Clay would help book local shows. Through this alliance, the Cope Brothers appeared on some of the same showbills. The teamings with Acuff also led the Copes to guest appearances on Knoxville’s WROL and WNOX. Born to a large, music-loving family in Klondike — later changed to Pressmen’s Home, Charlie Bailey made his professional singing debut in 1936 when he teamed up with Charlie Cope as a duet on radio programs in East Tennessee, including “Barrel of Fun.” Danny, three years Charlie’s junior, teamed up with his brother after Charlie’s stint with Cope. Together, Charlie and Danny became the Happy Valley Boys on WOPI’s “Saturday Night Hayride” in 1937. The next year, they moved to WJHL to appear on “Barrel of Fun,” and in 1939, were performing on WKPT. In 1940, the Baileys earned a spot on the Tennessee Barn Dance at
Knoxville’s KNOX then were offered a featured spot on the station’s Smiling Eddy Hill program. After a few weeks, they recruited Choptack’s Junior Gladson and Henry Buckner and earned a spot on WROL by picking up three sponsors within a month. After walking away from a talent show with first-place prizes for best duet, best fiddler, and best group, the Bailey Brothers were approached by Cas Walker. “The Ole Coonhunter,” as he liked to be called, Orton Caswell “Cas” Walker was a controversial politician and important country music promoter in East Tennessee. Born in 1903 in Sevier County, Cas Walker left home at 14 to work in a factory to help support his family. He worked Kentucky coal mines until 1924, by which time he had saved up $850. He invested that in a Knoxville grocery store, and with an aggressive marketing campaign of low prices, rural appeal and marketing promotions incorporating live music, Walker’s one grocery store grew into a successful regional chain. Cas hosted the “Farm and Home” show on radio (WIVK-AM) and television (WBIR). The popular program served to advertise his grocery store’s weekly specials, and featured live radio broadcasts of performances at his numerous stores throughout East Tennessee, helping many musicians become famous. Among those who became internationally known on Cas Walker shows were 12-year-old Dolly Parton, Bob and Sonny, the Osborne Brothers, continued on page 28
“No one was playing around the area until the Bailey Brothers — Charlie and Dan — came along,” Hawkins County native Sam Mallory said in 2007. “They were raised near Pine Mountain in Poor Valley. Charlie came over to Pressmen’s Home to get some work installing power lines.” Lawrence Freeman lived at Pressmen’s Home and performed with the Bailey Brothers. “At this time, Charlie and Dan Bailey were living in Knoxville and working for Cas Walker, doing three radio shows a day at WROL radio,” Sam said. “So Lawrence would drive down for all the shows he could make. Hayden and I would go with him. We played regularly with the Bailey Brothers. Tennessee Ernie Ford was an announcer then at WROL Radio.”
Mallory described venues of the early days.
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and Carl and Pearl Butler. Others became well-known regionally from his television and radio programs. Also gaining notoriety on Walker-sponsored programs were Clarence “Tater” Tate, Larry Mathis, the Brewster Brothers, Claude Boone, Red (Rector) and Fred (E. Smith), Sneedville’s Jimmy Martin, who became known as “the King of Bluegrass,” Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters. “Mr. Walker sponsored Dad’s program at WCRK for some 24 years, five days a week, Monday-through-Friday,” said Bob Climer, son of Tex Climer, a native of Mohawk, in Greene County. Tex helped peddle so many Blue Band products from Walker’s grocery store chain, Climer’s band became known as the Blue Band Coffee Boys, Blue Band being the name of Walker’s signature line of groceries. “All the musicians used to call him Mr. Walker. They had so much respect for him,” Bob Climer said. “Mr. Walker told me one time when we were playing for his birthday, ‘You know your dad was very inspirational to me in a lot of things’ and I had heard Dad say, as we were growing up, what a smart man Cas Walker was, and how much psychology that he had,” the younger Climer said.
Loretta Lynn and Hale Vance
George Jones and Hale Vance
“Lawrence and the Bailey Brothers also played almost every night in a schoolhouse, courthouse, wherever they could. They were booked from North Carolina to Kentucky. My brother and I got to play with them. Charlie and Dan had their wages from the Cas Walker Show, and Lawrence was still teaching. They’d charge something like 25 cents a person. Charlie and Dan had glossy black-and-white photographs and sold them for 35 cents. That was about all the extra money in those days you could expect to obtain. “My brother and I would perform with the Bailey Brothers all the time. They called us The Mallory Brothers. We weren’t just two kids who looked cute on the stage — we could actually sing and play. Over time, things changed. In those early years, we could perform in courthouses and schoolhouses, and charge for it. When gasoline went from 18 cents a gallon to 35 cents, we had to charge something since 25 cents wasn’t much money to get us there and back. Times were hard,” Mallory said. “We sang in little schools like Rock Hill and Maple Hill. People couldn’t afford the gas to travel, and many of them didn’t even have cars. These small schools were community centers,” he said. “That’s why the school circuit, as far as entertainers were concerned, was important. It was affordable for poor families. They could spend a dollar and take the family. For a little more money, 35 cents or so, they could buy an autographed photograph. You have to remember, this was before TV and recording studios. Musicians could have a little picture songbook made up that could be sold on the radio for 75 cents or a dollar. You could pick up extra money that way. You’d be surprised at how many people bought those things. “I was always a homeboy. I never did think I’d like the road so I never wanted to go to Nashville or tour. In fact, I used to get sick just riding in
Hank Williams, Jr. and Hale Vance
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Archie Campbell at WRGS Charlie Bailey’s car. That convinced me early on that I didn’t want to be riding around trying to make a living playing,” Sam said. “I chose to work for the U.S. Postal Service at Pressmen’s Home and eventually retired from the Church Hill Post Office.” Many of the popular radio programs had simply been converted over to television shows. WCYB Bristol moved its “Farm and Fun Time” program over to WCYBTV. Guest stars like Lester Flatt and Earl Scrugs, Mac Wiseman, The Stanley Brothers, Jim and Jess McReynolds and numerous others appeared on “Farm and Fun Time.” WJHL-TV broadcast “The Bonnie Lou and Buster Show,” “The J. Norton Arney Show,” “The Nick Carter Show,” “The Country Tune Twister Show” and the “Clayton Homes Show,” which also aired on WROL and WATE television stations from Knoxville. From both Knoxville and Johnson City came Bulls Gap native Archie Campbell’s show. Eddie Skelton worked as a DJ at WMCH in Church Hill and had his own television show on WJHL-TV, from which Cas Walker’s syndicated program showed select cuts. Skelton’s show ran off and on for 11 years, later on Bristol’s WCYB, and featured guests who were among the top names in popular music history: Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, Ray Charles, Carl Perkins, Chubby Checker and Fats Domino. Eddie’s Rhythmtones often provided backup to the stars. T.J. Rogers was just a teenager when he played with the Shenandoah Valley Boys on a live radio show for WMCH in Church Hill in 1953. “It was the first bluegrass band to play on that station,” T.J. said in 2006. “I played every schoolhouse in this country. That’s the way you’d make your money.” T.J. says he remembers WKPT in Kingsport being among the first to pay its entertainers. “Everybody wanted to play WKPT,” he says. “In my freshman year in high school, Sammy Mallory brought a fiddle to school and after hearing him play, I knew I had to learn to fiddle,” Rogersville’s Wayne Allen said. “I bugged my father until he bought me a second-hand Sears-Roebuck fiddle — which I still have — and for the next few years I was a fiddler. “My brother Herbert, Jr., a guitar player, and I began thinking about playing in a band when the Vance brothers, Hale and Gene, moved to Rogersville (in 1952 from Shell Creek, N.C.). For the remainder of high
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school, we were in local radio shows at WRGS, WNOX Knoxville ‘Midday Merry-Go-Round’ and the ‘Saturday Night Barn Dance’ a couple of times.” Wayne also performed with TJ Rogers at Marble Hall, was part of the staff band for Old Joe Clark when he performed at the old skating rink in Rogersville, and performed some Saturdays at the American Legion. Through another art student, Billy Robinson, Wayne met Chet Atkins, whom he considers the greatest guitar player of all time. “After being around Chet, I was hooked on the guitar forever.” The Vance Brothers became prominent on the local music scene and beyond, including performing at the Grand Old Opry. Hale performed on Hee Haw, toured internationally with the U.S.O. Show, and played on cards with Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton. “The USO tours have afforded me with some of my fondest memories and include some of my best friends,” Hale said. Church Hill’s Tom Patterson played with Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, on the Archie Campbell Show and was a 30-year performer with the Carter Family at Carter Fold. Surgoinsville’s Johnny and Billy Greer (see page 34) formed the band “Odds and Ends” and have been playing music for 50 years, Billy for the last 30 years with the rock group Kansas. In the past 19 years, Rogersville songwriter Kim Williams has had the number one singles “If The Devil Danced In Empty Pockets”, by Joe Diffie; “Papa Loved Mama, “It’s Midnight Cinderella”, “Ain’t Going Down ‘Til The Sun Comes Up”, and “She’s Gonna Make It”, by Garth Brooks; “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter”, by Reba McEntire; “Who Needs You Baby,” by Clay Walker; and “Three Wooden Crosses”, by Randy Travis which was #1 in both Country and Christian genres and winner of the CMA, Tom Patterson and Bill Monroe CCMA, GMA, NSAI, and ACM song of the year and the album “Rise And Shine” won the Grammy, and Christian #1s with “One Perfect Son” and “A Little Bit Of Faith”, by Jeff Silvey. Kim’s daughter Amanda Williams is one of many of more recent generations to carry on East Tennessee’s rich musical heritage tradition. The Grammy-nominated songwriter’s songs have been recorded by Garth Brooks, George Jones, Lonesome River Eddie Skelton Band, and many others. Another Rogersville product, the Ball Sisters Band, consisting of Jessica Patton, Cris Griffin, Randy Ball and John Skelton, released “Dixie”, a CD of Civil War-related songs in 2008, which was nominated for three 2008 Southern Heritage Music Awards, and made the finals in all three categories. In 2009, it was nominated for two awards, and reached the finals in one category. continued on page 30
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The Blue Ridge Hillbillies – Benny Sims, Willie Carver, Al “Slim” Wall, Carl Sauceman and J.P. Sauceman – at WWNC Farm Hour, 1946. continued from page 29
“There are a lot of good young musicians playing around now,” said Johnny Greer, pointing out one in particular, “Boots on the Ground,” a bluegrass band featuring Hawkins County natives and members of East Tennessee State University’s celebrated bluegrass program. “They’re in the learning mode and getting better all the time,” Greer said.
— By Jim Beller Some of the information and photographs from the following articles appeared in “Grass Roots: A Musical Heritage of East Tennessee” by Jim Beller and Hale Vance, with contributions from Lisa Allen; Chip Bailey; Blue Grass Unlimited; Birthplace of Country Music Alliance; Country Places; East Tennessee State University Archives of Appalachia; Jerry Hilliard; Mountain Music Museum; Ellen Myatt; Kim Williams; and David Winship.
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See Old Time Music
Performed Live in Hawkins County Venues Music Junction
Above: Past performers at Music Junction include (standing) Red Kirk, Reece Shipley, Linda Bright, Gene Vance; (seated) Peppy Pealer and Ray Hutchins. At left is Ernie Graves
In the summer of 1994, several musicians got together for a broadcast jam session from Hawkins Music Store on Highway 66 in Rogersville. Wayne Hawkins, Gene and Hale Vance, Jim Bowman and Eddie Frost comprised the house band, which welcomed singers and musicians to join onstage. The two-hour program, featuring old country, bluegrass and gospel, was broadcast by WRGS and proved to be a hit. The show became a regular Thursday night fixture at the store, attracting musicians throughout East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Among the many who joined the fun were Reece Shipley, Karen Salyers, Kindall Lawson, Reed Matney, Melody Matney, Milton Wilder, and Ernest Trent. The show soon outgrew the store’s confines, was moved to the Rogersville Parks and Recreation building and was ultimately known as Music Junction, just one of numerous venues to see live music in Hawkins County. Although Gene Vance and Linda Bright are no longer with us, their lasting legacy, Music Junction, is still going strong as it has every Thursday evening at the Rogersville Parks and Recreation building for the past 20 years. Among the luminaries who have played in Music Junction sessions are Charlie Bailey of the famous Bailey Brothers, Jill Franklin, Robert Crigger, Raymond McClain, who spent many years with Jim and Jess McReynolds, Cas Walker, David West, Claude Boone, Peppy Pealer, Paul Williams and continued on page 32
In the photo at the top of the page: Music Junction, Aug. 30, 2007, left to right: Pete Smith, Gene Vance, Sam Mallory (mandolin), Linda Bright, Milton Wilder (sitting on stool), Paul Elkins (behind Wilder), Elmo Allen and Carl Jones. While they’re not all still with us, their legacy, live music on Thursday nights, continues.
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Two photos to right: Christmas at Horton’s Store. Below: Short Mountain Grass performs at Horton’s Store in 1999: From left: Larry Bass, Avery Ramsey, Lloyd Mills, Ralph Jones, Frank Hurd and Jim Price.
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Victory Trio, Tim Stafford of Blue Highway, Mark Fain of the Ricky Skaggs Band, Bill Necessary and Ernie Graves, who played with Bill Monroe. But Music Junction isn’t about just wellknown musicians. Local talented pickers and players keep the free program going strong, running from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursdays at Rogersville Parks and Recreation.
Horton’s Store Located eight miles east of Highway 70 on War Creek Road, Horton’s Store in Eidson has held music gatherings on the second Saturday of the month for more than a decade. Once a general store owned by George and Corna Horton, the store was purchased in 2002 by the late, beloved couple, Rufus and Dorothy Presley, to be used for birthdays and family gatherings. “We invited some musicians one time and just didn’t stop,” Dorothy said in 2007. Ever since then, Horton’s has hosted live music on the second Saturday of the month between April and December. The Presley family still runs the program, open to
everyone. “We have bluegrass, gospel, country, just about anything,” says Ethan Presley. Down home meals are still served as Nay Presley now oversees this hidden gem’s operations. “The kitchen serves home made food - chicken-and-dumplings, soup beans and hot dogs,” beginning at around 6 p.m., said Ethan. The free music program follows at around 7 p.m. and runs until 10 or 11 p.m. — sometimes longer. The stage is open now as it was in 2007 when Dorothy said: “Anybody who comes by that can play, we let ‘em play.”
Bellamy’s Hardware Another Hawkins County venue hosting live music is Bellamy’s Hardware in downtown Surgoinsville. “Bluegrass at Bellamy’s” converted the original Bellamy Hardware Company’s 100-year-old store into a pickin’ parlor and adjoining antique store and has been hosting live music for 14 years. “We have a show the third Saturday night of each month,” owner Johnny Greer says. “We have an antique store, but it’s really my wife’s. continued on page 33
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Free Duty’s Tim Laughlin, Hal Boyd, Bobby Love and Rick Powers at Bellamy’s
Randall McMurray, TJ Rogers, Don McMurray, David Roller at Bellamy’s
We don’t keep many hours. The day we have a show we’re open all day.” His arena, the store’s old feed room, holds 150 to 200 people. “We’ve had to turn people away a few times,” Johnny says. “We absolutely couldn’t get any more in. It usually happens during the winter months. People get cabin fever, I guess, or a super group comes through.” A bluegrass picker himself, Greer often gets on stage. Besides the band that’s been booked, locals can get up at “half-time” or intermission for a jam session while the band takes a break. “There’s young people here all the time,” Johnny says. “The young people coming on are the best I’ve ever seen. They’re super pickers.” During the half-time jam session, a different group of pickers gets together for almost every show. “You’ll find old people and young people picking together. That’s the greatest thing about it,” Johnny says. “We have a lot of local groups that do these shows and we’ve had some heavy hitters there from time to time,” said Greer. That includes his brother Billy from rock band Kansas and Rhonda Vincent, who fronts the popular bluegrass group, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage. “If you want to dance, go to Carter Fold,” Greer says. “If you want to hear music, come to Bellamy’s.”
Senior Centers
Johnny Greer at Bellamy’s
For the county’s older citizens who don’t get out late anymore, the area senior centers also host music regularly and feature talented musicians. Church Hill Senior Center hosts live music every Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. “The musicians are members at the Senior Citizen Center started playing on every Tuesday,” said Director Tammy Bentley. The popularity of the event became a weekly event and continues today. “They come in and pick and play,” Bentley said. “They play everything from country to bluegrass to gospel. We’ve got some very talented musicians.” Mount Carmel Senior Center also hosts a weekly music program. Music usually starts after breakfast at around 9 a.m. and lasts until about 11 a.m.
— By Jim Beller
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Like many kids in 1964, Johnny and Billy Greer wanted to start a band after seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show.
With their buddies at school, they pined and plotted ways to get hold of some instruments.
The following year, their dreams came to fruition. “On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, to perform at the March of Dimes Telethon my mother took us to Hale and Gene on WJHL-TV,” Johnny says. “We were in Vance’s music store on Main Street in much demand for about a year, and the Rogersville,” Johnny recalls of the popular name of the band, The Odds and Ends, had store and musicians hangout. The purchase stuck.” by their parents “changed the direction of “We played anywhere we could: birthday our lives.” Johnny’s new drums and Billy’s parties, grand openings, talent shows, sock new bass complemented guitars already hops,” says Billy. “A funny thing happened. owned by Alvin Case and Sammy Manis. After a while, people actually started So Thanksgiving Day, 1965, the boys offering us money to play!” strapped them on and held their first Band personnel fluctuated. “Sammy practice. “By the end of the day, we Manis married his sweetheart and dropped probably could play two or three songs,” out of the band,” Johnny recalls. Other he remembers. One week later, they were members at various times were Eddie playing for a birthday party in the basement Cradic, Bill Trent, Ben Chambers, and of the Town Restaurant in Rogersville. Harold Walker. “We knew 10 songs,” Johnny says. “We “We were regulars at the Barn. There were just played them over and over.” Billy teen nights. Bands played every Saturday showed a flair for performance and became night,” Johnny says. The band joined the The Odds and Ends: Sammy Manis, Alvin lead singer. “He was awesome singing the musicians union in Knoxville and began Case, Johnny and Billy Greer Everly Brothers’ ‘Dream, Dream, Dream,’” getting bookings further out: Knoxville Johnny says. The boys continued to fraternities and clubs, Chattanooga and practice. “We never had any formal lessons, but we listened to 45s over and a nightmarish week in Mobile, Ala. “The manager of the club gave us a over to work out our parts.” little room but no money until our two weeks were up,” Johnny says. “We “Music was everything back then. We were raised in a store up in thought we would starve, eating crackers and mayonnaise until we finally Surgoinsville, the Rockhouse Service Station and Grill. Music played all the got paid. time,” says Johnny. “Where we really made our money was proms and sockhops. They had The following spring, they entered a talent show and performed, but to have a live band and required a big repertoire of songs,” Johnny says. were ruled ineligible for prizes. “They said we were professionals because Most of the money the band earned went back into their instruments. “I the band had made some money at a sock hop,” Johnny says. “I suppose had a beautiful Hofner bass, just like the one Paul McCartney played,” Billy Surgoinsville was not ready for rock-n-roll.” says. The Tri-Cities was, however, and the band began performing at sock “We used Vox amps and equipment for a while because that’s what the hops and dances. “We thought we hit the big-time when we were asked Beatles used. We had super equipment,” Johnny says.
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David Ragsdale and Billy Greer Bill Bailey’s Booking Agency Johnny says. booked them all over Knoxville and Billy started playing with Benny Chattanooga, as well as some gigs in Wilson, K.D. Forshe, and Don Gorman Southwest Virginia. “We were all out of in a group called Passenger. “I really school. We were playing heavier stuff, liked playing with these guys,” Billy says. Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, and Led “They are all very talented and it was Zeppelin. We were still doing Beatles really a good band. We remain friends to tunes. We made good money,” he says this day.” Vietnam began to get in the way. In 1975, Johnny started The Circle “Alvin Case ended up going to the Air B Band. “We played various clubs and Force,” Johnny says. “That shook us events. I continued to play drums and up.” was also the lead singer. Ben Chambers Harold Walker joined the played the organ, along with Harold group. “We’d play anything from Walker and Alvin Case on guitar, Larry a service station opening to large House playing bass. That was really the Billy and Johnny Greer concerts,” Johnny says. “In 1966 we Odds and Ends, minus Billy. cut a record, ‘Do You Believe In Magic?’ and ‘Record Shop Song’ by Terry In the late 1970s, Johnny’s direction turned away from rock-n-roll and Johnson.” toward bluegrass. “I always liked bluegrass. We’d even do ‘Cabin on the Johnny was drafted in 1970, pretty much ending the run for the Odds Hill’ about everywhere we went,” he says. Bluegrass and bluegrass gospel and Ends. “It was quite an era for us with some wonderful memories,” continued on page 37
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Johnny on the mandolin and Billy on guitar
In the photo above, Billy plays bass while Johnny (below) plays drums.
Pictured above is Odds and Ends: Bill Trent, Sam Manis, Billy Greer, Benny Wilson and Johnny Greer on the drums
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has been his focus since. Johnny’s band “plays anything from wienie roasts, church picnics to the Fourth of July Celebration,” he says. Billy moved to Atlanta and in 1986, became bass player for the rock group Kansas, with whom he still plays today. In 2000, Billy started recording a solo project, “Seventh Key.” “Billy continues to play with Kansas, traveling and playing,” Johnny says. “They’ve been doing a documentary on Kansas the last couple years that will be out pretty soon. “He just got back from Cancun, playing down there,” Johnny said. “He’s played for some cruise ships lately. That’s a new thing they’ve done. And
there’s a possibility of them putting a new album together.” Johnny just wrapped up eight years serving as Mayor of Surgoinsville, but he hasn’t wrapped up his playing days and remains a fixture at Bluegrass at Bellamy’s in Surgoinsville. (see page 32) “I’m still playing bluegrass music. When Billy and I can, we put our rockn-roll group, Odds and Ends, together for local events,” he said. Fifty years later, the Greer Brothers are still going strong.
— By Jim Beller
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— celebrating 50 years in country music This year will mark Charlie Chase’s 50th anniversary on the airwaves. Born Wayne Bernard, he began his career officially in 1965 as a 13-year-old disc jockey at WRGS in Rogersville, although his interest in radio dates back even further. In 1954, at age two and too young to remember, he first showed an interest in broadcasting when the WRGS tower was erected next door. “The family always said I seemed to be fascinated by it and would love to point out the tower,” says Charlie. When he was three his mother took him to the station to watch a blind piano player, Harold Carmack, do his show on a Sunday afternoon. An invitation to sing led to a rendition of the only song he knew, the Tennessee Ernie Ford tune “Sixteen Tons.” His interest in music continued and at age 12 he received an inexpensive set of drums. That led to a garage band called The Routines, opening the door to his future career. “Mark Beal, the station owner, agreed to let us come to the station to make a recording, and when I walked into the station and saw all the equipment I thought it was the most fascinating thing I had ever seen. I wanted to be a part of that and I asked him if he needed any help,” Charlie says. A few weeks later, Beal offered Charlie a position and, at age 13, he became an on-air intern. “At 14, I had a full-time job for the grand salary of $1.10 per hour.” In 1967, Charlie passed a test for a third-class FCC license and was legally able to operate the station’s equipment. “When the afternoon slot came open at the station, I got the job because I was the only licensed person available,” he explains. Charlie worked both a morning and an afternoon shift. He arose at 4 a.m., rode a bicycle to the station to turn on the transmitter, signed on at 6 a.m. and worked for a couple of hours until time to go to school. Mavis Livingston, the office manager, drove Charlie to school and picked him up at 2:30 p.m. so he could go back on the air at 3 p.m. and work until sign-off at sundown. “I consider myself to be very lucky to have had the upbringing that I had because really the entire community was involved,” says Charlie, whose teacher, Mae Brooks, listened to his show in the
morning and then helped him with any words he mispronounced. “What she would do and the way she would do it helped me become a better announcer and I appreciated that.” Not many middle school students have already begun their careers. “I was one of those guys that was fortunate when I was 13 years old, to figure out, ‘Hey I like this. This is a lot of fun.’ Not only is it fun, but you take it seriously,” Chase said. During bad weather, the police would actually take Charlie to work in order to get the station on the air. continued on page 40
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His popular Coming Home concerts have raised money for the fight against cancer and brought major country superstars like Tim McGraw, “WRGS was a vital and important part of the community and the source of local information. I was proud to be a part of that,” he says. “I Vince Gill, Blake Shelton and Alan Jackson to Rogersville. learned so much while I was there. That was the kind of experience that “The artists who come up there are always good friends of mine,” doesn’t really present itself today.” Chase said. “When you’re asking people to do that, they’re doing you a He graduated from Rogersville High School in 1970 and the favor. They donate their time and staff to make that happen.” following year married his high school sweetheart, Karen Moles, after The town returned the favor last her graduation from RHS. year, officially naming Rogersville Charlie later worked on-air jobs “Home of Charlie Chase.” while serving as program and music “I am honored that my director at Kingsport, Knoxville and hometown is proud of me, but please Nashville stations, ultimately landing know that I’m even more proud of my at world-famous WSM Radio, where he replaced television-bound Pat hometown,” Chase said. “That was a Sajak. While working at WSM Radio, nice surprise. I really appreciate that. Charlie did music reports for Channel “Rogersville was a wonderful 4 in Nashville, leading in 1982 to a place to grow up, and it is still a host position for the station’s longwonderful place. The town has grown running midday magazine program. over the years, but in a sense it has not In 1983, TV producer Jim Owens changed. When I come back I always arranged a meeting at the Opryland feel like I’m coming home.” Hotel with Charlie and Lorianne When he comes home now, it will Crook. Owens wanted to create a mark a return to the place his career syndicated TV show called “This Week in Country Music,” a program began a half century ago. reporting on country music and its “I’ve been very fortunate in my stars, and wanted them to host. career and it all started right there at Lorianne and Charlie WRGS,” he said. “I’ve been fortunate immediately clicked and by June to be inducted into the Tennessee had produced a pilot episode, Radio Hall of Fame, as well as the which Owens successfully marketed Country Radio Hall of Fame on the nationwide. In September, Crook PHOTO BY BUFFY SIZEMORE national level and in both cases, the and Chase debuted as a team. “This Vince Gill and Charlie Chase relax at Rogersville Middle School prior to Gill’s first thing I do is thank WRGS and the Week in Country Music” remained a Coming Home concert in 2007. Beale family.” popular syndicated show until 1985, when the fledgling Nashville Network Chase has good memories of requested exclusive airing rights. working at WRGS, which celebrated “Crook & Chase” was named its 60th year on the air in 2014. Best Entertainment News Program “I got a lot of good training from by Cable Guide magazine in 1988. those folks at the radio station from Lorianne hosted TNN’s flagship the standpoint of how important your primetime live show, “Music City position on the air is. When you think Tonight” and in 1996 went into about it, you look at the situation national syndication again with their across the country and there are not daily show in Los Angeles, which was aired throughout East Tennessee. that many on-air positions in relative “Crook & Chase” remained on terms. So when you’ve got one, you TNN until its demise as a country treat it with respect,” Chase said. network at the end of 1999. During Still married to Karen, Charlie those 16 years, Lorianne and Charlie stays young at heart enjoying their became two of the network’s most time together and with their two popular and respected hosts, producing thousands of hours of programming, including “The Crook & grown children, Rachael and Dave, and their grandchildren, as well as Chase Show,” “Crook & Chase Tonight,” “Music City Tonight with Crook plying the craft he became fascinated with as a kid. “When you’re young, you’re experimenting with what direction you & Chase,” “Celebrities Offstage,” “Funny Business,” “Today’s Country,” “Crook & Chase Celebrity Showplace,” as well as countless award shows want to take with your career,” Chase said. “I’m still experimenting.” and specials. Despite his success, Chase has never forgotten his Hawkins County — By Jim Beller roots.
“I am honored that my hometown is proud of me, but please know that I’m even more proud of my hometown.” — CHARLIE CHASE —
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Ralph Stanley’s career
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Born to a singing father and old-time banjo-picking mother in Dickenson County, Va. in the Clinch Mountains, Ralph and Carter Stanley learned music from their parents and performed in their neighborhood. After serving in World War II, they formed the Stanley Brothers and began performing at area radio stations. After two months at local WNVA in Norton, Va., they went to WCYB in Bristol, where they attained popularity on the “Farm and Fun Time” program. Their recording career with their group, The Clinch Mountain Boys, began with Rich-R-Tone in Johnson City James Alan Shelton in 1947. They recorded on Mercury for five years beginning in August 1953, then switched to Starday and King before transferring their base to Live Oak, Fla., and the Suwanee River Jamboree. For nearly four years, they prospered while doing TV shows for Jim Walter Homes throughout Florida, Georgia and Alabama and eventually signed with Columbia Ralph and Carter Stanley Records. brothers (above) The Stanley Brothers recorded such classics as “Angel Band,” “Little Maggie” and their signature tune, “Man of Constant Sorrow.” During this time, Ralph developed a unique style of playing the banjo that became known as “Stanley style.” New Ralph Stanley album After rapidly declining health, Carter died in 1966 at only 41 years of age. After weeks of indecision, Ralph decided to go ahead with a new Clinch Brothers were the biggestt iinflfluences on my musical i l career,”” Sh Shelton lt said. id Mountain Boys band and, fortunately for them, bluegrass festivals had After playing in local bands for several years, working in music stores regained popularity after a lull. and painting houses to pay the bills, the 33-year-old Shelton found out in Stanley continued to perform and record as a solo artist. Though the 1994 that Stanley’s guitarist, Junior Blankenship, was leaving the band. years, he helped mentor several future bluegrass and country music artists Shelton jumped at the chance to fill in and played with his hero for the who performed in his band before embarking on solo careers, including first time on March 4, 1994 in Northfield, Minn. Ricky Skaggs, Larry Sparks and Keith Whitley. “I guess you could say I paid my dues,” said Shelton, who was offered In 1976, Stanley received an honorary doctorate from Lincoln the job full-time and never looked back, getting to live his dream for 20 years Memorial University in Harrogate and he has been known as “Dr. Ralph until his untimely death due to pancreatic cancer last year. Stanley” ever since. “I’m glad he’s getting to do what he’s always wanted to do,” Shelton’s He was presented with the National Heritage Award by President wife Greta said in 2006. “Not many people get the chance to do that.” Ronald Reagan in 1984, elected into the International Bluegrass Hall of In January, Stanley released “Ralph Stanley & Friends: Man of Constant Honor in 1992. Sorrow,” which is available at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® locations Two years later, Church Hill’s James Alan Shelton joined Stanley’s and online at crackerbarrel.com and select digital retailers. band. “Ralph Stanley & Friends: Man of Constant Sorrow” features Stanley Known locally as “James Alan,” Shelton picked up the guitar when he performing duets with guest artists including Dierks Bentley, Elvis Costello, was 12 and the banjo at 13. “I went to see Ralph several times when I was Del McCoury, Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale, Old Crow Medicine Show, growing up and learned to play his style of guitar, the cross-picking style of Robert Plant, Ricky Skaggs, Nathan Stanley, Josh Turner, Gillian Welch guitar,” Shelton said in 2006. & David Rawlings, and Lee Ann Womack. Stanley also performs two solo “My grandfather on my mother’s side got me started,” Shelton said in songs, including his signature tune “Man of Constant Sorrow.” Bluegrass Today last year. “I went to see Bill Monroe and Ralph together in “I have always enjoyed performing with other musicians ever since my 1973. By that point, I had pretty much decided this is what I wanted to do older brother Carter and I first started playing music together when we were for a living.” kids,” said Stanley. “I am excited to share these collaborations with such A 1979 Gate City High School graduate, Shelton aspired to play like wonderful artists with our fans.” renowned guitarist and bassist George Shuffler, also known as the “third — By Jim Beller Stanley Brother” who died last year. “George Shuffler and the Stanley
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Cherokee Lake / Holston River • Fishing • Boating • Water-related activities, camping Boat Ramps • Church Hill City Park • Laurel Run Park • Christian Bend • Surgoinsville Bridge • Beech Creek • Beech Creek SW • John Sevier Steam Plant • Caney Creek • Gilmore Dock • Melinda Ferry • Quarryville • Church House Point • County Line Road (Bean Station) In adjoining counties • General Longstreet Museum, Russellville, Hamblen Co. • Bridge Burners Monument, Midway, Greene Co.
(PUBLISHER'S NOTE: These landmarks are only a few of the many points of interest in Hawkins County and is not a comprehensive or all-inclusive list.)
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Ebbing and Flowing Spring UM Church Church property was part of original Amis land grant. Located near where one of only two known springs in the world to stop and flow at regular intervals, is one of the oldest churches in Hawkins County. Ebbing and Flowing Spring United Methodist Church, located one mile off East Main Street and three-quarters of a mile off Burem Road, was built around 1899 by the membership and the community. Each Sunday, services begin at 10 a.m., unless weather conditions prohibit access to the church. According to the church’s history, the land on which the church is built was given by the Rev. J.H. Amis, a Methodist minister. This land was part of the original land grant given to his great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Amis, for his services in the American Revolution. Previously, Amis had set up an adjoining cemetery in which his mother and father, Thomas I. and Mathilda Ann Amis, are buried. Before the present church was constructed, services had been conducted at the nearby Ebbing and Flowing Spring School House. The church was established around 1820 in the school. The church is constructed of knotty pine and weatherboard. The original timbers and interior are intact is used regularly. Around the time of Rogersville’s founding, the site was used for revivals held by legendary Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury. During those revivals, Asbury stayed at the nearby Thomas Amis Stagecoach Inn. “The best we understand is that Bishop Asbury held two revivals before the school was built and most likely one after the school was built, around the 1820s,” Pastor Fred Dimond said. While the church building itself is more than 100 years old, it still maintains the charm of when it was built, combined with some tastefully added modern conveniences. When Pastor Fred Dimond came to the church as its pastor in 2012, the congregation had expressed an interest in adding bathroom facilities to the church. In a meeting held on Dimond’s first Sunday as pastor, it was concluded that the foundation had to be stabilized before construction could begin. Much of Dimond’s first year was spent stabilizing the foundation. That could not be done until the ground underneath the church was dry. “The weather wouldn’t cooperate, so it took about a year to get the foundation issues resolved,” Dimond said. “If we didn’t do it when we did, the following winter the building would have collapsed within itself because the weather was so bad. God’s timing is perfect.” “We had to replace all around the foundation that first year, plus the main seal down the middle of the church,” Doug Kirkpatrick, church continued on page 49
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Rev. Fred Dimond, pastor of Ebbing and Flowing Spring United Methodist Church, holds a metal marker that is placed on the tombstone of a deceased Methdodist Minister. A friend gave Dimond this after purchasing from an estate sale.
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member, said. “While we were doing that, we had a lot of bad wood that we had to take off the sides and we replaced it. It (also) wasn’t insulated, so we installed that. We’ve got it to where we can keep it a little warmer now.” In the old days, services were conducted in the wintertime with a potbellied stove in the middle of the church. Air-conditioning in the old days included opening windows. Contrast this with the present day, with a gas stove and gas air conditioning system. Renovations included replacements of floor joists, foundation security, belfry repairs and a new restroom built to ensure building integrity. The roof was also meticulously replaced with the same style metal shingles as the roof on the building. After the foundation was stabilized, the job of installing bathrooms came about. Only after careful consideration was a contractor hired to build the bathrooms to ensure building integrity. “We did a long search about what kind of work could be done and for what quality. We had several people to look at it. We finally came up with one person that wanted to make sure everything was restored close to original as possible so as to keep the integrity of the original building. With that, we started with the foundation and worked on the additional part. Mark Tynes was that person,” Dimond said. Thanks to the renovations, the building is now in very good shape. The church was renovated by the congregation with the assistance of several grants and was completed last year in time for the Easter Sunday services. Ebbing and Flowing Spring holds an Easter Sunrise service at 6 a.m. each year on Easter, including this year on April 5. “You can’t tell anything has been done to the sanctuary,” Dimond said. There are still renovations to go at the church, including windows and painting, Kirkpatrick said. “That’ll come later, I guess,” Kirkpatrick noted. Kirkpatrick, among others, lobbied the Kingsport District of the United Methodist Church for a regular pastor to conduct services for many years before Dimond was appointed. “Doug emphasized that a preacher was needed every week, not every other week. That’s how I ended up here,” Dimond said. “He was the one who got me there.” “I hollered for that for a long time,” Kirkpatrick said. Sunday services have been at 10 a.m. for three years, since Dimond has
been the pastor. For many years, Ebbing and Flowing Spring was a “station” church where a preacher would preach there two times a month with lay ministers filling in the other Sundays. The church was also known as a “preaching station”, as far as being affiliated with the Holston Conference due to the dire financial straits the church was in at the time. Currently, the congregation numbers around 20. “I remember attending revivals there in the 1990s,” Dimond said. “In 1992, one of our United Methodist Bishops, Clay Lee, came to the church. That year, the service had the ministers riding in on horses like the old “Circuit Rider” preachers in the 1800s. We had many Methodist dignitaries come to the church over the years.” Another famous happening at the church is the singings on the fourth Sunday in June of each year. According to church historian Doug Kirkpatrick, these singings went on for years at the church before being shifted to Greenland Park in Church Hill in the 1960s. “Cars used to be lined up all the way back to Burem Road,” Kirkpatrick said. “It was an all-day singing convention.” “That is something that went on for many, many years,” Dimond said. “My understanding that around the 1960s it stopped. It started again four years ago.” These singings were part of the annual Hawkins County Singing Convention. According to Dimond, the singings started back four years ago. “We’ve had a good time each year,” Dimond said. “We’d like to see more people come out, of course.” The Ebbing and Flowing Spring School was built in the 1820s and served as a school until 1957 when Hawkins County closed the school. “When you open the door to the school, it’s like you closed school yesterday. It hadn’t been touched. We hope that this is restored someday as well,” Dimond said. “We don’t own the school, but the school was deeded back to the Beals. We continued on page 51
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don’t know what is going to become on that,” Kirkpatrick said. One thing is for certain, Ebbing and Flowing Spring United Methodist Church will continue to deliver God’s love for years to come. The following is taken from an excerpt from the book Off the Beaten Path Tennessee: A Guide to Unique Places by Tim O’Brien:
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“Every two hours and 47 minutes at the spring, the underground hollow fills slowly with water. As it nears the ground’s surface, suction forces the water to be siphoned out into the spring. This siphon continues to drain the hollow until it is empty, breaking the siphon and stopping flow. It then refills and the process starts again. The water consistently remains at 34 degrees.”
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Cherokee Lake Lake is an entertainment source for many each year.
Cherokee Lake in Hawkins County brings in fishermen from across the Eastern United States in the spring and summer of each year. Since the Tennessee Valley Authority created Cherokee Lake by building Cherokee and Norris dams, Cherokee Lake has provided fishermen with a great source of fish and recreation opportunities. The economic impact of Cherokee Lake is great, given that fishermen and their families come in and buy groceries, gasoline, supplies, dine while here and in many cases, buy fishing licenses. Chuck Smith, owner of Rogersville Marine, put it bluntly when asked about the impact of Cherokee Lake on his business. “Without the lake, I would have to seek other incomes,” Smith said. “The business is my primary income, it’s been in our family for a long time, most all of my life. The lake has a pretty direct impact on my life and my family’s. Rogersville Marine started in 1974, but Smith took over from his father in January 1996. “We opened here at our current location in 1999, but my father started the business three miles up the road. We had to move due to Highway 11W coming through in the mid 1980s, which obviously impacted our business. We moved, expanded and grew with the traffic.” “Since the four-lane came in here, it’s helped our business and with traffic flow,” Smith said. According to Smith, Rogersville Marine specializes in sales and service of boats year round. “The majority of what we do is service,” Smith said. “We do sell some boats, too. Average aluminum bass boats used by fishermen average around
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$3,000 to $4,000 for used boats. New bass boats have an average price of $6,000 to $8,000, according to Smith. Pontoons sell for around $20,000 for new boats, while used pontoons sell for around $10,000. Fishermen also have to buy bait in order to catch those pesky fish. Sporting goods places abound, with Creekside Market on Highway 66, Walmart in Rogersville and Lakeview Grocery on Highway 11W between Mooresburg and Rogersville. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) operates two Cherokee Lake access points, one on Melinda Ferry Road in Rogersville and the other at the Quarryville Access Point in Mooresburg, located near Lakeview Baptist Church. According to Walmart FLW fishing pro Derrick Snavely, Cherokee Lake draws fishermen from different parts of the country. “Cherokee and Douglas are good lakes with a lot of fish in them,” Snavely said. “They come because they don’t have any of those lakes around them. Springtime is the time of year when people start getting excited about it. Everybody is buying his or her fishing licenses; it’s a busy time of year. “We have very good fisheries. I think a big reason people come is that they’re really into crappie fishing. That draws a lot of people here. There are also several different kinds of game fish,” Snavely added. According to a 2002 report by the University of Tennessee, persons visiting Cherokee Lake spent an average of $16.82 per day. In the study, there was a range of $8.91 at Boone to $33.72 at South Holston Lake. The average continued on page 54
54 discover hawkins county GUIDEBOOK / spring 2015 “The pole was bent over pretty good. There was a time when I thought it was going to break, but luckily it didn’t.” among Boone, Cherokee, Douglas, Norris, South Holston and Watauga Armstrong got the fish on the bank at around 5:30 p.m. lakes were $19.07 per person. There were several other fishermen were in the area. One of the fishermen, ironically, was the Entertainment Value, Record Setting Fish record holder prior to Armstrong. On Tuesday nights during the spring Stephen Criss was the holder of the record, and summer months, there is a weekly bass with his catch of 81 pounds, 12 ounces on March tournament held at the Quarryville access point. 4, 2012. Criss suggested they weigh the fish. The Prizes are given away and it satisfies locals’ need men went to a certified weight at Hawkins Farmers to fish. Co-Op in Rogersville. After it was weighed, the Also, Cherokee Lake has been the home for process began to get the catch certified as the new record setting-fish. In 2014, Gene Armstrong state record. landed a record 95-pound paddlefish, measuring PHOTO BY WADE LITTLETON Bart Carter, Region IV TWRA fisheries 69.6 inches in length. A boat runs on Cherokee Lake on a recent coordinator in the Morristown office, inspected The 20-year old Armstrong decided to go out day near the Quarryville Access point. the fish and the submission was made to the for a fishing trip on Saturday, April 12, 2014 at the TWRA Fisheries Division in Nashville. Horseshoe Bend section of the lake. He was set for The paddlefish was the second largest fish some bank fish fishing, not too far from his Church Hill home. caught for the Class A section of the record book. Only a blue catfish The outing got off to a quick start as Armstrong quickly caught a pair weighing 112 pounds caught at Lock C on the Cumberland River in 1998 by of hybrid striped bass. His good start prompted him to give catching a Robert F. Lewis stands larger. paddlefish a shot. The Class B paddlefish record is 120 pounds held by John T. Johnson. Fishing in what Armstrong estimated to be 60-70 feet of water, he It came on the Blue Hole section of Center Hill Lake in 1982. Class B used a three-prong treble hook on a 20-pound test line. He quickly got includes those methods other than rod and reel. some contact and what began was an approximately 45-minute ordeal as he worked to land what proved to be his trophy fish. “I had never fished for a paddlefish, so I thought it was a good time to give it a try,” Armstrong said. “I did not know what to expect, but certainly — By Wade Littleton it turned out well.” continued from page 53
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Gene ‘Alabama’ Armstrong went fishing on Saturday, April 12 at the Horseshoe Bend area of Cherokee Lake and caught a 95-pound paddlefish. This bested his previous record of an 81-pound paddlefish caught years ago. He used a seven-foot Shakespeare fishing rod and reel combo to catch this fish. Fishing line used was 20-pound line from Bass Pro Shops. “This was the best fight I’ve ever had,” Armstrong said. “It took around 45 minutes to bring it in. I got my buddy Austin to go out into the water a little bit to get it when it made it to the bank.”
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Walmart league fisher says, “If it has fins and swims, I want to catch it” ROGERSVILLE --- By day, Derrick Snavely is an agent with Hawkins County Farm Bureau. When he’s not working, he just goes fishing. Not just any fishing, tournament fishing. “If it’s got fins and swims, I want to catch it,” Snavely said. “It’s something I can do to relieve stress. It’s a lot of fun. I’m really lucky and fortunate to get to do that, especially with the job. I’m allowed to schedule all of my work around that. I’ve got a really good manager that I work for. He’s very good to me with that.” Snavely’s grandfather, Harry Buck, helped to fuel his passion for fishing early. “He started taking me when I was a little boy, around three or four years old. I’ve been hooked ever since. I really enjoyed it. It’s something I can do to relieve stress. I can get out on the water and not really think about anything else besides God’s creations and natural beauty of the earth,” Snavely recalled. He started fishing in tournaments when in high school in Carter County. “I got bit by the tournament fishing bug. I decided to try professionally. My first year as a professional was 2012. I stepped back in 2013 because of my job, really. I’m still going to fish a lot of tournaments. “I fish several different circuits. They range from the local level all the way up to the national level, where you travel all over the country. There are all kinds of different clubs in Hawkins County and the nation, for that matter.”
Tournament Fishing According to Snavely, there are several different nt organizations that have tournaments. Snavely is competing professionally in the FLW Outdoors rs Tour, founded by the owner of Ranger boats, whichh pays out a lot of money to the winners of high-stakess tournaments. FLW has different levels of competition, n, ranging from the FLW professional-level majors, too the lower-level Walmart Bass Fishing Leagues (BFL). ). There are different divisions all over the nation, n, classified by regions. The division for our area is called the Volunteer Division, which draws a lot of local anglers. The Volunteer Division fishes Douglas, s, Cherokee, South Holston, Chickamauga and Watts Bar lakes. According to Snavely, the Everstart Series is the amateur level. The BFLs are more for the weekend angler. There is also the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (BASS) Elite Pro Series, followed by the BASS Master Opens, which has a tournament on Douglas Lake. The Professional Anglers Association (PAA) is another league that hosts tournaments in this division on Douglas and Fort Loudoun lakes. Locally, Morristown Marine hosts a series of tournaments each year. “Sam Phillips, owner of Morristown Marine, put up a lot of money in these tournaments,” Snavely said, “This draws a tremendous amount of competitors from this region.”
Lakes Attract Regional Anglers While Cherokee and Douglas lakes are well known to our residents, these lakes draw a lot of people from other parts of the country.
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Tying one on…Derrick Snavely of Rogersville prepares a lure while at a competition last year. At left, Snavely with a catch during one of his tournaments in recent years. “Cherokee and Douglas are good lakes with a lot of fish in them,” Snavely said, “They come because they don’t have any of those lakes around them. Springtime is the time of year when people start getting excited about it. Everybody is buying his or her fishing licenses; it’s a busy time of year. “We have very good fisheries. I think a big reason people come is that they’re really into crappie fishing. That draws a lot of people here. There are also several different kinds of game fish,” he noted. Snavely, whose father was a state championship boys’ basketball coach with Unaka High School, migrated from Elizabethton to Rogersville eight years ago. “I grew up fishing Watauga Lake. That’s a special place to me. That’s the lake I grew up on. I’ve got a lot of fishing stories I could tell about that place. I’ve been extremely lucky and fortunate to have a really good family. My dad has always supported me. He said ‘Son, go after your dream.’ I’ve got some sponsors who help me out by giving me products, but he encouraged me to go after it.”
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our 2015 Celebration,” said Dr. Blaine Jones, Chairman of the 4th of July Celebration. Both concerts will take place at Rogersville City Park beginning at 6 p.m. on Sat., July 4. Big Daddy Weave will take the stage at 6 p.m., followed by The Swon Brothers at 8:30 p.m. From 1 p.m. until showtime, a variety of to-be-announced local talent will perform on the City Park stage as well. As always, in addition to music, a full day of free events has been planned, from free swimming at Rogersville Municipal Swimming Pool to the free Kids Zone. The day will close with what has been called one of the largest fireworks shows in the South beginning at 10 p.m. Also, as in the past, plans are being made for the Rogersville 4th of July Celebration to span over the course of several days as other events are being considered and discussed. Dr. Jones said additional announcements for those events are forthcoming. “The Rogersville 4th of July Celebration is a totally free event thanks to our sponsors and donations,” Jones added. “If anyone would like to make a donation that will help us offset the costs associated with this event, mail it to ‘Rogersville 4th of July Celebration, P.O. Box 35, Rogersville, TN 37857.’” Additionally, both Jones and DeWitte said the celebration is looking for sponsors. To discuss becoming an event sponsor, call Dr. Jones at (423) 2723150. More information regarding the celebration, as it becomes available, may also be found online at www.rogersville4thofjuly.com.
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(423) 272-2128 Fax: (423) 272-3789
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315 Allen Dr., Bulls Gap
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Kingsport Book Book Binding and Related Work (423) 357-3433 www.kingsportbook.com
Lynx Machine & Tool Company Company Custom Machine Shop 410 Phipps Bend Rd., Surgoinsville (423) 345-5020
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N S Gilbert Lumber
S & S Custom Tapes
Preprinted Packaging Materials 1249 Old Hwy. 70S, Rogersville (423) 921-0202
4459 Hwy. 11W, Rogersville (423) 345-2320
115 Hickory Hills Rd., Church Hill (423) 357-8273
Peddinghaus Modern Technology (PMT)
Tabco, Inc.
McPeek Logging 3117 Caney Valley Rd., Surgoinsville (423) 357-3017
2105 Schmiede St., Surgoinsville (423) 345-4500
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121 Kingsport Press Rd., Church Hill (423) 357-2511
112 Big Springs Rd., Rogersville (423) 272-2886
MIS, Inc.
Quality Plastic Products
614 Phipps Bend Rd., Surgoinsville (423) 345-2299
TRW Automotive
119 Industrial Dr., Surgoinsville (423) 345-2303 www.misincinfo.com
Mohawk Machine & Energy, LLC 273 Hwy. 11E., Ste. B, Bulls Gap (423) 235-9585
Mountain City Lumber Company 725 W. Main Blvd., Church Hill (423) 357-3500
7500 Hwy. 11W, Rogersville (423) 272-2171
Ware Manufacturing 100 Phipps Bend Rd., Surgoinsville (423) 345-4716
961 Holliston Mills Rd., Church Hill (423) 357-7712
Ratliff Mandolins 440 W. Main Blvd., Church Hill (423) 357-4381
Short Mountain Silica 170 Silicia Rd., Mooresburg (423) 272-5700
Mundet Inc
Sonic Sound Series
170 Geiger Rd., Surgoinsville (423) 601-7200 www.mundet.com
8024 Hwy. 66N, Rogersville (423) 921-0503
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Civic Clubs Organizations
American Legion Post 21 of Rogersville
helping to improve our community
Hawkins County Historical & Genealogical Society (423) 256-2304
Rogersville Civitan Club
Meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. at the Rogersville Senior Center located at: 407 East Main St., Rogersville
Boys and Girls Club of Hawkins County
Kiwanis Club of Rogersville
1604 E. Main St., Rogersville, TN 37857
Contact: Russ Williamson
(423) 272-5656
(423) 921-1872
1924 E. Main St., Rogersville, TN 37857
(423) 921-9029 Meets the last Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in the American Legions Building
Email: hawkinsbgc@gmail.com www.hcbgc.org
Business Professional Women of Rogersville Contact: Pat Rimer
(423) 272-9001 Email: patrimer@bellsouth.net
CASA for Kids 107 East Main Street, Suite 240 Rogersville, TN 37857
Contact: Jennifer Kennedy
(423) 239-0328 Fax: (423) 293-0428 Email: jenniferkennedy@casa4kidsinc.org
Chip Hale Center 310 Hasson St., Rogersville, TN 37857
(423) 272-3966 www.chiphalecenter.org
East Hawkins County Chamber of Commerce P.O. Box 1314, Church Hill, TN 37642
(423) 357-6365
P.O. Box 442, Rogersville, TN 37857
Meets each Tuesday at noon at the Hale Springs Inn located at: 110 West Main St., Rogersville
Lions Club of Rogersville Contact: Bob Maes
(423) 921-9019 Meets the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m. at Oh Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant at: 201 East Main Street, Rogersville
Of One Accord Ministries 306 E. Main St., Rogersville, TN 37857
Contact: Sheldon Livesay
(423) 921-8044 / Fax: (423) 272-2378 Email: ofoneaccord@yahoo.com
Overton Lodge #5 Free and Accepted Masons Rogersville, TN 37857 Meet the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at: 103 East Main St., Rogersville
Habitat for Humanity Contact: Marshall Stubblefield
Price Public Community Center
Phone/Fax: (423) 272-1830
203 Spring St., Rogersville, TN
Email: mstubblefield@bellsouth.net www.habitat.org
Contact: Stella Gudger
Hasson Chapter #179 Order of the Eastern Star
Email: pricepubliccommu@bellsouth.org
310 Colonial Rd., Rogersville, TN 37857
Rogersville, TN
Contact: Susan Thames
(423) 921-0092 Meet the 1st Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at: 103 East Main St., Rogersville
Hawkins County Archival Project 955 East McKinney Avenue Rogersville, TN 37857
(423) 921-0904 www.facebook.com/pages/Hawkins-CountyArchival-Project
Contact: Judith Williams
United Way of Hawkins County
(423) 754-0105
101 W. Broadway St., Rogersville, TN
Meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Brick Oven Mountain Kitchen, 1226 E. Main St. at 6:30 p.m.
Contact: Sybil Testerman
Rogersville Heritage Association
Email: uwayhawkinstn@yahoo.com
(423) 921-3888 Rogersville Arts Council P.O. Box 575, Rogersville, TN 37857
Contact: Jim Begley
(423) 293-0882 Email: rogersvilleartscouncil@gmail.com www.rogersvilleartscouncil.org
Rogersville/Hawkins County Chamber of Commerce 107 East Main Street, Suite 100 Rogersville, TN 37857
Contact: Nancy Barker
(423) 272-2186
101 West Broadway St., Suite 1 Rogersville, TN 37857
(423) 272-7379
415 South Depot St., Rogersville, TN
VFW Club Post 9543
(423) 272-1961
1605 E. Main St., Rogersville, TN 37857
Email: director@rogersvilleheritage.org www.rogersvilleheritage.org
Rogersville Rotary
(423) 272-7423 VFW Club of Church Hill Post 9754
Established 1925 P.O. Box 544, Rogersville, TN 37857 Email: info@rogersvillerotary.org www.rogersvillerotary.org Meets each Tuesday at noon at Wellmont Hawkins County Hospital located at: 851 Locust St., Rogersville
261 Silver Lake Road Church Hill, TN 37642
Rogersville Senior Center
(423) 357-5387
Lions Club of Bulls Gap Meets the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Pizza Plus located at: 410 Highway 11E Bulls Gap, TN 37711
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(423) 272-9186 or (423) 272-9185 Fax: (423) 272-9185 Email: hawkinschamber@gmail.com Transportation, congregate meals, home delivered meals, educational programs, exercise classes, exercise equipment, bingo, trips, computer for clients use, volunteer opportunities, senior games, health screenings, Bible study, painting classes, woodworking classes, and many more activities.
Rogersville Shriners Club Meets the 4th Friday of every month at 7:00 p.m. at Overton Lodge located at: 103 East Main St., Rogersville, TN 37857
Shades of Nefertiti www.facebook.com/pages/Shades-of-Nefertiti Meets the 3rd Monday of every month at the Price Public Community Center located at: 203 Spring St., Rogersville
Sons of American Revolution Contact: Dick Burdette
(423) 272-7315 Meets at Hale Springs Inn located at: 110 West Main St., Rogersville. Please check our website: www.sofsar.com for current meeting information. Email: softnssaar@gmail.com
(423) 357-3613 Church Hill Senior Citizens Center Tammy Bentley, Director 412 East Main Blvd., Church Hill, TN www.churchhilltn.gov Consists of approximately 12,000 square feet with exercise room, billiard room, game room, craft room, kitchen, dining/event hall, computer room and music room.
Extension Agent: Robbie Peppers 850 West Main Street , Suite 1 Rogersville, TN 37857
Phone: (423)-272-7241 Email: rpeppers@utk.edu
Mt. Carmel Senior Citizens Center 101 East Main Street Mt. Carmel, Tennessee 37645
(423) 357-3281
Ruritan of St. Clair (423) 235-2525
Meets the 2nd Thursday of each month.
Ruritan of Surgoinsville (423) 345-2946
Meets the 3rd Monday of each month.
Volunteer Ruritan of Mount Carmel 5740 Carters Valley Road Mt. Carmel, TN 37645
(423)357-1785
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Rogersville
Amis Mill Eatery 127 W. Bear Hollow Rd., Rogersville
(423) 272-7040 Arby’s
4314 Hwy. 66S, Rogersville
(423) 272-8480
Miss Bea’s Perks and Pies
Taco Bell
109 S. Church St., Rogersville
4018 Hwy. 66S, Rogersville
(423) 357-7305
Oh Henry’s
The Pig & Chick
McDonald’s
201 E. Main St., Rogersville
5020 Hwy. 11W, Rogersville
(423) 272-4448
(423) 357-8320
Pal’s Sudden Service
Wendy’s
Pal’s Sudden Service
4308 Hwy. 66S, Rogersville
110 James Richardson Ln., Rogersville
Peking Chinese Restaurant
(423) 272-4364
Cherokee Restaurant 2928 Hwy. 66S, Rogersville
(423) 272-8408 Dominos
111 Justice Center Dr., Rogersville
(423) 272-7009 Golden Dairy
4002 Hwy. 66S, Rogersville
(423) 272-2000
Hale Springs Inn / McKinney’s Restaurant 110 W. Main St., Rogersville
(423) 272-5171 Hardee’s
198 Park Blvd., Rogersville
(423) 272-5763 Java’s & Cream
4017 Hwy. 66S, Ste. 5, Rogersville
(423) 293-3060 (4 Jug’s Place Plac Pl P ace
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201 Silver Lake Rd., Church Hill
(423) 272-0980
1206 E. Main St., Rogersville
116 James Richardson Ln., Rogersville
1142 Volunteer St., Church Hill
(423) 921-6009
(423) 272-5400
Burger King
El Potrillo
423-272-6555
Brick Oven Mountain Kitchen
(423) 921-8600
great places to eat all across the county
420 Park Blvd., Ste. 8, Rogersville
(423) 272-8278
Phipps Bend Country Kitchen 3039 Hwy. 11W, Surgoinsville
(423) 345-0025
Papa John’s Pizza 4308 Hwy. 66S, Rogersville (423) 272-5070
Pizza Hut 4019 Hwy. 66S, Rogersville
(423) 921-0068
437 Richmond St., Church Hill
(423) 357-1690
Randall’s Restaurant & Catering
Church Hill
120 Old Union Rd., Church Hill
(423) 357-0299
China Dragon
(423) 357-3888
1118 Hwy. 11W, Church Hill
Roma’s Pizza and Italian Restaurant
Church Hill Diner
(423) 357-7727
1026 Hwy. 11W, Church Hill
506 E. Main Blvd., Church Hill
(423) 357-5557
(423) 357-7728
Surgoinsville
Dominos 720 E. Main Blvd., Church Hill
(423) 357-2228
Dairy Mart 2120 Main St., Surgoinsville
(423) 345-2716
(423) 272-9191
Pizza Plus of Rogersville 3934 Hwy. 66S, Rogersville
(423) 272-7171
Roma’s Pizza and Italian Restaurant 7138 Hwy. 11W, Rogersville
(423) 272-7774
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423-272-7774
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Route 66 Grill 3415 Hwy. 66S, Rogersville
(423) 272-2166
Sagebrush Steakhouse 400 Park Blvd, Rogersville
(423) 921-7694
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1026 Highway 11W (near Volunteer High)
423-357-7727
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423-254-1974
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(423) 345-0340
Phipps Bend Country Kitchen
Subway
Subway
1420 W. Main St., Mt. Carmel
13425 W.Andrew Johnson Hwy., Bulls Gap
(423) 357-1900
Bulls Gap / St. Clair
3039 Hwy. 11W, Surgoinsville
(423) 345-0025
Di’s Diner 1321 Hwy. 113, Bulls Gap
Pizza Plus of Surgoinsville 3400 Hwy. 11W, Surgoinsville
(423) 235-4040
(423) 235-7631
14044 W.Andrew Johnson Hwy., Bulls Gap
(423) 235-1023
Riverview Cafe 106 Old Stage Rd., Surgoinsville
(423) 345-3111
(423) 235-0102 Ann’s Steak & More
35 Speedway Ln., Bulls Gap
Blimpies
Pizza Plus of Bulls Gap
432 W. Main St., Mt. Carmel
14480 W.Andrew Johnson Hwy., Bulls Gap
Yoder’s Country Market & Deli
Wendy’s
(423) 586-1322
Mooresburg
1236 Hwy. 113, Bulls Gap
(423) 357-4181
(423) 235-7727
Hardee’s
St. Clair Restaurant
3304 W. Andrew Johnson Hwy., Morristown
Kingsport Arby’s
(423) 272-5027
4532 W Stone Dr, Kingsport
(423) 247-9979
El Ranchito Mexican Restaurant 4368 W. Stone Dr., Kingsport
(423) 765-9750 Skip’s Diner
Sneedville
4366 W. Stone Dr., Kingsport
(423) 246-7547
Hardee’s
S & S Market
Morristown El Charrito Mexican Restaurant
(423) 921-8282
110 E. Main St., Mt. Carmel
171A Court Square, Sneedville
(423) 733-1288
(423) 235-9400
802 Old Hwy. 11W, Mooresburg
Dairy Cup of Mount Carmel
(423) 357-8405
(423) 235-9218
Green Tomato Grill
(423) 235-9200
530 W. Main St., Mt. Carmel
Subway
14042 W.Andrew Johnson Hwy., Bulls Gap
113 Old Hwy. 11W, Mooresburg
McDonald’s
(423) 235-7000
(423) 256-9690
Taco Bell
Country Corner
5602 Carter’s Valley Rd., Mt Carmel
(423) 357-2667
(423) 733-4163
13350 W.Andrew Johnson Hwy., Bulls Gap
Jug’s Place
135 Campbell Dr., Sneedville
(423) 235-6772
(423) 235-4572
422 Hwy. 11E, Bulls Gap
Mount Carmel
Sneedville Family Diner
273 Hwy. 11E, Bulls Gap
DQ Grill & Chill
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(423) 733-4538
Pizza Plus of Sneedville
1236 Hwy 113, St. Clair, TN
(423) 393-1027
1462 Main St., Sneedville
(423) 733-8500
St. Clair Restaurant 1236 Hwy. 113 • Bulls Gap, TN • 423-393-1027 Monday - Saturday: 5:00am - 9:00pm www.facebook.com/stclairmarket
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109 Church Street • Rogersville, TN 37857
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Chamber of Commerce a AccuForce Staffing Services Rowena Lyons P.O. Box 599 Kingsport, TN, 37662 423-245-2104 / 423-245-8302 rowenal@accuforce.com kingsport@accuforce.com www.accuforce.com
AIG American General Philip C. Edison 1906 Knob Creek Rd, Suite 6 Johnson City, TN, 37604 423-282-6121 / 423-282-3841 inauredlife@gmail.com
AirMedCare Network Air Ambulance Transport Jason Monday 118 Laurel Acres CT Jonesborough, TN 37654 423-444-1853 Jason.Monday@amgh.us
Amedisys Home Health Care Lori Dalton 109 Apple Lane, Suite A Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-4484 ldalton@amedisys.com www.amedisys.com
Amedisys Home Health Care Angel Shanks 109 Apple Lane, Suite A Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-4484 / 423-272-4485 ashanks@amedisys.com www.amedisys.com
American Cancer Society Beverly Holland 871 N Weisgarber Road Knoxville, TN 37909 865-558-4052 / 865-584-1673 Beverly.holland@cancer.org
American Red Cross of Northeast TN Glenda Bobalik, Executive Director Susan Perry, Operation Manager 660 Eastern Star Rd Kingsport, TN 37663 423-765-4222 / 423-765-4377 glenda.bobalik@redcross.org susan.perry@Redcross.org
American Rental Derek Miller 4324 Highway 66, Suite # A Rogersville, TN 37857 423-293-3572 / 423-293-3574 st069@americanrental.com
Amis Mill Eatery Jake & Wendy Jacobs 127 West Bear Hollow Road Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 423-272-7040 jake@amismill.com www.amismill.com
Appalachian Community Federal Credit Union Candy Craig P.O. Box 1008 Kingsport, TN 37662 423-378-2819 / 800-378-3778 ccraig@myacfcu.org www.myacfcu.com/ASP/home.asp
Appalachian Community Federal Credit Union Adam Tate 1206 West Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-378-2845 atate@myacfcu.org www.myacfcu.org
Appalachian Regional Coalition on Homelessness (ARCH) Dreama Shreve, Executive Director Danielle Garland, Case Manager 321 West Walnut Street POB 3797 Johnson City, Tennessee 37602 423-928-2724 / 423-926-4264 dreama@appalachianhomeless.org
A.S.I Automotive Scientific, Inc. P.O. Box 626 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-921-9085 / 423-921-9086 don@autoecu.com
AT & T Alan Hill 625 South Gay Street, Suite 630 Knoxville, TN, 37902 865-594-3004 / 423-548-8429 alan.hill@at&t.com -www.AT&T.com/tn
At-Work Personnel Services, Inc. David Luttrell 3825 Highway 66, Suite # B Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8115 / 423-921-9002 dluttr@atworkpersonnel.com www.atworkpersonnel.com
Auto Brite Professional Detailers Dale Wilson & Matthew Wilson 4023 Highway 66 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-921-4486 wilson.d713@gmail.com
b BPW Pat Rimer 4021 Highway 66 South, Suite B Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-9001 patrimer@bellsouth.net
Baldor Dodge Reliance Peggy Lee 100 Baldor Drive Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2686 / 423-272-1298 pslee2@baldor.com www.baldor.com
Baldor Dodge Reliance Tom Carpenter 100 Baldor Drive Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-1233 / 423-272-1233 tcarpenter@baldor.com www.baldor.com
Baker, Donelson, Etc. Law Firm
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Bob’s Tire & Auto Center Bob Bundren 1501 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-3075
Brian Snow Carpet Care Brian Snow P.O. Box 355 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-8197
Brick Oven Mountain Kitchen Robbie Davis, Owner 1206 East Main Street Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 423-921-8600
Broome Funeral Home Don Broome P.O. Box 8 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8250- 423-272-8251 broomefuneralhome@charterinternet.com www.broomefuneralhome.com
Buds and Blooms Florist
Ronald Range P.O. Box 3038 Johnson City, TN, 37602 423-928-0181 / 423-979-7639 rrange@bekerdonelson.com
Marlene McNally, Owner 211 South Depot Street Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 423-293-3400
Baker, Donelson, Etc. Law Firm
Antonio Bos P.O. Box 97 Bulls Gap, TN, 37711 423-235-4600 / 423-235-5755 bullsgapdrugs@yahoo.com
Vance Cheeks P.O. Box 3038 Johnson City, TN, 37602 423-928-0181 / 423-979-7639 vcheeks@bakerdonaldson.com
Bulls Gap Drugs
Bulls Gap Railroad Museum
Jessica Allen, Owner 322 Colonial Road Rogersville, Tennessee 423-293-0337 jessicaandkelvin@hotmail.com
Bill Haskins 139 South Main Street Bulls Gap, TN, 37711 423-235-5322 srw6330@yahoo.com www.bullsgaprailroadmuseum.org
Bargain Barn Tires
C&C Millwright & Maintenance
Bang –N- Blades Beauty Salon
David Bundren 1203 Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37602 423-272-6191 bargaintires@gmail.com
Jerry Fortner P.O. Box 970 Greeneville, TN, 37744 423-639-9527 / 423-639-8757 jfortner@ccmillwright.com www.ccmillwright.com
Bluegrass at Bellamy
Capital Bank
Johnny Greer & Teresa Greer 116 Hill Avenue Surgoinsville, TN, 37873 423-345-3372 / 423-345-3372 johnnygreer@bellsouth.net teresagreer@bellsouth.net www.mainstreetbluegrass.com/bellamys.htm
Blue Ridge Package Dale Murnane 4017 Highway 66 South, Suite A Rogersville, TN 37857 Phone: 423-393-1166 blueridgepackage@gmail.com
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Danette Mowdy P.O. Box 2400 St. Kingsport,, TN, 37662 423-272-2300 / 423-246-1073 Danette.mowdy@capitolbank-us.com www.capitalbank-us.com
Capital Bank Jody Fugate 210 West Main Street, POB 577 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2300 / 423-272-9779 Jody.fugate@capitalbank-us.com www.capitalbank-us.com
78 discover hawkins county GUIDEBOOK / spring 2015 Casa for Kids, Inc. Jennifer Kennedy 107 E. Main St., Ste 240 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-293-0328 jenniferkennedy@casa4kindsinc.org
CASA for Kids, Inc. Mary L. Kilpatrick 310 Shelby Street Kingsport, TN 37660 423-247-1161 / 423-247-1156 Mary@casa4kidsinc.org
Carol’s Short-Term Rentals Carol Jones 911 Sandy Valley Road Rogersville, TN 37857 770-530-9749 caroljones@afco.net
Carroll Real Estate Rick Carroll 7142 Highway 11W Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7100 / 423-272-0782 carroll@planetc.com www.carrollrealty.com
Carter, Rhonda L., CPA Rhonda Carter 171 Mount Zion Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-235-7900 / 423-235-9050 rhondacartercpa@aol.com
Cavender Farms Chuck Cavender 1621 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2191 / 423-272-6133
Cherokee Lake Campground Billie Phillips 9617 Hwy 11W Mooresburg, TN, 37811 423-272-3333 billieclc@bellsouth.net www.cherokeelakeinfo.com
Civis Bank
Cross Flower Shop
Ben Lindley P.O. Box 550 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2200 / 423-272-3353 blindley@civisbank.com www.civisbank.com
J.H. Cross 812 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8113 acrossphoto@hughes.net
Crye-Leike Realtor of Rogersville Civis Bank
Cherokee Orthotics and Medical Equipment, Inc. Fonda Brice 482 Park Blvd Suite 2 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-8088 / 423-921-0046 physic_c@charterinternet.com
Cherokee Physical Therapy Jeff Ringley 482 Park Boulevard # 2 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-8088 / 423-921-0046 jeff_c@charterinternet.com
Chip Hale Center Randy Linkous 310 Hasson Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-3966 / 423-272-4025 rlinkousc@yahoo.com www.chiphalecenter.org
Christian-Sells Funeral Home Chris Christian P.O. Box 775, 1520 East Main St. Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-0555 / 423-272-0524 csfh@bellsouth.net www.christiansells.com
Frank Proffitt P.O. Box 550 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2200 / 423-272-3353 fproffitt@civisbank.com www.civisbank.com
Colboch-Price Funeral Home Margo Lamb 101 West Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8839 / 423-272-9730 margolamb@yahoo.com
Carter K Boutique Russ Williamson 118 South Church Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-754-4981 russ@carterkshop.com www.carterkshop.com
Comfort Inn & Suites Raj Trivedi 128 James Richardson Lane Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8700 / 423-921-9849 www.comfortinn.com/hotel-rogersville-tennessee-TN510?sid=xTXYti.9ApN9geBo.25
Christian-Sells Funeral Home
Computer Power & Grounding Consultants, Inc.
Sandy Harrell 4106 Highway 66 South Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-9001 sandyharrell@bellsouth.net
James Sells P.O. Box 775, 1520 East Main St. Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-0555 / 423-272-0524 csfh@bellsouth.net www.christiansells.com
Consulting –Power Electronics Worldwide Don Spoon –President 120 Quillen Avenue Bulls Gap, Tennessee 37711 800-688-3896 PowerGuyUSA@gmail.com
Cellular Communications
Clinch-Powell RC & D
Congressman Phil Roe
Lindy Turner P.O. Box 379 Rutledge, TN, 37861 865-828-5927 / 865-828-5212 lindy@clinchpowell.org www.clinchpowell.net/main.html
Washington Office Phil Roe 419 Cannon HOB Washington, DC, 20515 202-225-6356 / 202-225-5714 rep.roe@mail.house.gov www.roe.house.gov/
Cellular Communications
Pat Rimer 4021 Hwy 66 South #B Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-9001 patrimer@bellsouth.net
Chancellor Douglas T. Jenkins Doug Jenkins 107 East Main Street, Suite # 321 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-921-8800 / 423-921-8045 atty2637@bellsouth.net
Charter Business David Cummings 10417 Wallace Alley Street Kingsport, TN, 37663 423-817-2456 david.cummings@chartercom.com
Charter Communications 109 Apple Lane Rogersville, TN, 37857 www.charter.com
Cherokee Lake User Association Non-profit –Lake Preservation P.O. Box 694 Talbott, Tennessee 37877 901-828-6825 Lynn Listeslistes@comcast.net www.cherokeelakeusers.net
Clinch-Powell RC & D Cherry Acuff P. O. Box 379 Rutledge, TN, 37861 865-828-5927 / 865-828-5212 finance@clinchpowell.net www.clinchpowell.net/main.html
Congressman Phil Roe Bill Snodgrass 1609 College Park Drive, Suite 4 Morristown, TN 37813 423-254-1400 / 423-254-1403 www.roe.house.gov. bill.snodgrass@mail.house.gov
Cinnamon, Don Don Cinnamon 510 Walkers Church Road Bulls Gap, TN 37711 423-923-5383 doncinnamon@yahoo.com
Cooper Standard
Civis Bank
Covington Credit
Jeffery Gunter 210 East Main Street, P.O. Box 550 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2200 / 423-272-3353 jgunter@civisbank.com www.civisbank.com
Judy Johnson 125 Stapleton Lane #2 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-921-8721 / 423-921-8724 jduncanj86@earthlink.net
Gabrielle Buchanan, HR Manager 377 Phipps Bend Surgoinsville, TN 37873 423-817-2598
Charles Sharits 205 East Washington Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-5050 / 423-272-2378 csharits@gmail.com
Custom Heating & Air Condition, LLC. Chad Salyer, Owner 119 East Main Blvd. Church Hill, TN 37642 423-357-1922 / 423-357-5736 custom.heatingandair@yahoo.com
d David Britton, Dr. Charlotte Britton 309 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-3677 britton@hck12.net
DBR Metal Roofing Contact: Debbie Shedden P.O. Box 455 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-345-4700 / Fax: 423-345-4770
D & L Properties Commercial & Residential Rentals Larry & Dena Clonce 139 Riverfront Drive Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-2242 cloncelarry@yahoo.com
Domino’s Pizza 111 Justice Center Drive Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7009 / 423-318-1596 rkountz@bellsouth.net www.dominos.com
e East Tenn. Iron & Metal (ETIM) Tommy Brooks P.O. Box 460 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-235-4119 tommy@easttniron.com
ETSU Hawkins Co. Academic Center Jeannie Parrott P.O. Box 668 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-4808 / 423-272-4959 parrotsh@etsu.edu www.etsu.edu
ETSU Hawkins Co. Academic Center Susan Austin P.O. Box 668 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-439-4421 / 423-272-4959 austins@etsu.edu www.etsu.edu
discover hawkins county GUIDEBOOK / spring 2015 ETSU/UT at Kingsport Dr. Rick Osborn 1501 University Blvd. Kingsport, TN, 37660 423-392-8000 / 423-272-4696 osbornr@etsu.edu www.etsu.edu
ETSU at Kingsport Dr. Elaine Boone 300 Clinchfield St., Suite 460 Kingsport, TN 37660 423-392-8080 booneg@etsu.edu
East Side Apartments Otis Eldridge 459 Caney Creek Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2938 / 423-247-2261 otiseldridge@yahoo.com
East Tennessee Printing Jim Egbert P.O. Box 817 / 210 Washington St. Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-7456 / 423-921-7450 egbert@easttennesseeprinting.net
Eastman Chemical Company Betty Payne P.O. Box 571 Kingsport, TN, 37662 423-229-4965 / 423-229-4965 bpayne@eastman.com www.eastman.com
Eastman Chemical Company Kristen Sturgill P.O. Box 571 Kingsport, TN, 37662 423-229-2526 / 423-229-1008 ksturgill@eastman.com www.eastman.com
Eastman Credit Union Marty Polson 4003 Highway 66 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-235-4050 / 423-235-4055 mpolson@ecu.org
Eastman Credit Union Linda Hall 2021 Meadowview Lane Kingsport, TN, 37660 423-578-7346 / 423-578-7627 lhall@ecu.org
Edward Jones Marty Dobbins 420 Park Boulevard, Suite #2 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8985 / 866-622-0647 marty.dobbins@edwardjones.com www.edwardjones.com
Eldridge Auto Sales Otis Eldridge 459 Caney Creek Road 423-272-2938 / 423-272-3753 otiseldridge@yahoo.com
Elwood Staffing Ms. Shelly Anderson 2055 E Andrew Johnson Hwy. Suite 2A Greeneville, TN 37745 423-639-0900 / 423-639-0920 shelly.anderson@elwoodstaffing.com
Employee Benefits Specialist, Inc . John F. Smith, President 345 Montvue Avenue Morristown, TN 37813 423-581-7594 ebstn@aol.com www.ebstn.com
EPC Robert Hickman 140 Industrial Drive Surgoinsville, TN, 37873 423-345-2351 /423-345-3772 www.epcmfg.com
E-Z Pawn$ & Guns Pawn Shop and Firearms Dealer Charles Blimline 125 Stapleton Lane, Suite # 1 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-3233 ezpawns125@gmail.com www.e-zpawns.com
f Farm Credit Mid – America Ed Snodgrass P.O. Box 1090 Greeneville, TN 37744 423-638-8151 / 423-638-1731 Ed.snodgrass@e-farmcredit.com
First Community Financial Services Darla Freeman 809 West Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-5800 / 423-272-1962 dfreeman@infinexgroup.com
First Community Bank Debbie Price P.O. Box 820, 1104 East Main St. Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-5800 / 423-272-6607 dprice@fcbanktn.com
First Community Bank Steve Waller P.O. Box 820, 1104 East Main St. Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-5800 / 423-272-6607 swaller@fcbanktn.com
First Community Bank Mary Boehms P.O. Box 820, 1104 East Main St. Rogersville, TN, 378587 423-272-5800 / 423-272-6607 mboehms@fcbanktn.com
First Community Bank Jackie Charles P.O. Box 820, 1104 East Main St. Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-5800 / 423-272-6607 jcharles@fcbanktn.com
First Med of Rogersville Urgent Care Susan Ryan, Office Manager 482 Park Blvd., Suite #1 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-293-3366
First TN Human Resource Agency Stephanie Walker 2203 McKinley Road, Suite 210 Johnson City, TN, 37604 423-461-7769 / 423-461-8228 swalker@fthra.org www.fthra.org
Flowers by Wanda
Grapevine Garden Statues & Home Décor Carolyn Pittman 549 Flora Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-4999 / 423-272-6002
Great Day Screen Printing
Florist, Wanda Seaton 1120 East Main Street, Suite # C Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-3735 wandacandleshop@yahoo.com
Phil Goodson 120 Beaver Lane Rogersville, TN 37857 423-293-3456 / Fax: 423-293-3457 greatdayscreenprinting@outlook.com
Food City
Greenbrier Village Apartments
Brandon Mowell 1287 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2745 www.foodcity.com
Fountain Bay Construction Rhonda Epling P.O. Box 1087 Kodak, TN, 37764 865-225-1420 epling@sunrisehomestn.com www.sunrisehomestn.com/index.html
Full Cycle Wood Works, Inc. Elaine Highsmith 1642 Highway 70 North Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-6003 / 423-272-5554 fullcycle@sustainablelumber.com www.sustainablelumber.com
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Nancy Heck 106 Petersburg Road # 41 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-9976 /423-272-5220
h HDK Industries, Inc. Jeff Moore 100 Industrial Park Drive Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7119 / 423-578-2831 jeffm@hdkind.com www.hdkind.com
Hagood Eyecare Dr. Brance E. Hagood 215 West Broadway Suite A Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2345 / 423-272-3324 rockytp@chartertn.net www.hagoodeyecare.net
German Creek Marina & Café
H & R Block
Rhonda Epling P.O. Box 1087 Kodak, TN, 37764 865-225-1420 epling@sunrisehomestn.com www.germancreekmarina.com
Peggy Long 3815 Hwy. 66 S Suite 2 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-6515 / 423-272-9975 cobb3235@bellsouth.net www.hrblock.com
Givens-Nelson Realty
Hale Springs Inn & McKinney Tavern
Stephen A. Nelson 1012 West Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-4660 / 423-272-5660 givensnelson@aol.com
Goins Rash Cain, Inc. Commercial; Constructional/Architectural Mary Darnell, Intern Architect 130 Regional Park Drive Kingsport, Tennessee 37660 423-349-7760 / Fax: 423-349-7413
Goody’s Tammy Bowles 4017 South Highway 66, Suite 2 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-0850
Graffiti Expressions Ryan Lawson 109 Apple Lane, Suite 201 / P.O. Box 733 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-293-0961 / Fax: 423-293-0962 ryan@graffitiexpressions.com
Grainger Today, Inc. Ann Cason P.O Box 519 Bean Station, TN 37708 423-272-2292 / Fax: 865-993-6474 ann@graingertoday.com
110 West Main Street Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 1-877-222-1616 / 423-272-5171 asher@halespringsinn.com www.HaleSpringsInn.com
Hartness Insurance Agency Brian Hartness P. O. Box 218 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-754-4343 hartnessbrian@hotmail.com
Hawkins County Administrator of Elections Donna Sharp 110 East Main Street, Room 301 Rogersville, Tennessee 37587 423-272-8061 Vote@hawkinstnelection.com www.hawkinscountytn.gov
Hawkins County Director of Schools Steve Starnes 200 North Depot Rogersville, Tennessee 423-272-7629 steve.starnes@hck12.net
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80 discover hawkins county GUIDEBOOK / spring 2015 Hawkins Co. Industrial Development Board 107 East Main Street, Suite 221 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7668 / 423-272-0200 hawkinsdevlp@gmail.com www.hawkinstnindustrial.com
Hawkins County Clerk Nancy Davis 110 E. Main St. Room 204 / P.O. 790 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7002 / 423-272-5801 Nancy.davis@tn.gov www.hawkinscountytn.gov
Hawkins County Clerk & Master Holly Jaynes P.O. Box 908 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8150 Holly.Jaynes@tncourts.gov
Hawkins County EMA Gary Murrell, Director 407 East Main Street Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 423-921-8059 gary.murrell@hawkincountytn.gov
Hawkins County Register of Deeds Judy Kirkpatrick P.O. Box 235 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8304 / 921-3170 jckirkpatrick@chartertn.net www.hawkinscountytn.gov
Hawkins County Sheriff Ronnie Lawson 117 Justice Center Drive Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-4848 rllawson@chartertn.net
Hawkins County Trustee Jim Shanks 110 East Main Street, Room 203 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7022 / 423-272-8267 jimshanks@hawkinscotrustee.com www.hawkinscountytn.gov
Hawkins County Circuit Court Clerk Randy Davis 115 Justice Center Dr. Ste 1237 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-3397 / 423-272-9646 Randy.collier@hawkinscircuitcourt.com www.hawkinscountytn.gov
Hawkins County Mayor Meville Bailey 150 East Washington Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7359 / 423-272-1867 Melville.Bailey@hawkinscountytn.gov www.hawkinscountytn.gov
Hawkins County Library System Eileen Queener 407 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8710 / 423-272-9646 hbslib@chartertn.net www.hawkinslibraries.org
Hawkins County Even Start
Highlands Union Bank
Johnson & Johnson Realty
Kim Cassidy 322 Colonial Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7837 / 423-272-1867 kjcassidy@charter.net
Jon Hermes 4020 Highway 66 / P.O. Box 457 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-1987 khardesty@hubank.com www.hubank.com
Hugh K. Johnson P.O. Box 395 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7679
Hawkins County Farm Bureau Steve Hayworth 3825 Hwy 66 South Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2126 steve.hayworth@tfbf.com www.tnfarmbureau.org
Hawkins County Habitat for Humanity Marshall Stubblefield 310 Colonial Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-1830 / 423-272-1830 mestubblefield@bellsouth.net www.habitat.org
Hawkins County Gas Utility District
Holston Business Development Center Diana Armstrong 2005 Venture Park Kingsport, TN, 37660 423-578-6235 / 423-578-6500 Diana@hbdc.org www.hbdc.org
Holston Electric Cooperative Jenny Lawson P.O. Box 190 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8821 / 423-272-6051 jlawson@holstonelectric.com www.holstonelectric.com
Patrick Lund P.O. Box 667 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8841 / 423-272-4645 plund@hcgas.com www.hawkinscountygas.com
Holston Electric Cooperative
Hawkins County Adult Education
Home Medical Service, Inc.
Literacy Council Lisa Barton 954 East McKinney Avenue Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8345 / 423-272-8642 lisa.barton@hck12.net www.tnliteracy.org
Hawkins County Cancer Support Group Betty Goins 162 Regency Drive Rogersville, TN 37857 423-345-3049 goinsp@bellsouth.net
Hawkins Farmers Co-op / Ace Hardware Brian Julian 240 Burem Pike Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2611 / 423-272-7636 bjulian@hawkinscoop.com www.ourcoop.com
Henard Lumber Company Brian Henard 127 Big Spring Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8090 / 423-272-8180
Heritage Motor, Inc. Michael Seal 3835 Hwy 66 S Rogersville, TN 37857 423-293-3500 / Fax: 423-293-3501 heritagemotor@live.com
Highlands Union Bank Samuel Neese P. O. Box 1128 Abington, VA, 24212 423-272-1987 sneese@hubank.com www.hubank.com
James B. Sandlin P.O. Box 190 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8821 / 423-272-6051 www.holstonelectric.com Cindy Armstrong,-Sales/Marketing 212 East Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-7210 / 423-272-7215 carmstrong@hms-tn.com
Hometown Home Health Care Amy & Freddie Gregg P.O. Box 843 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7941 / 423-272-6051 htown95@chartertn.com
i Interim Healthcare Angie Maddox 3815 Highway 66 S Suite 1 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-5990 amaddox@pss-interim.com
Investment Rental Properties Glen Courtney P. O. Box 756 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-0935 / 423-272-4485
j Java’s & Cream Ice Cream, Sandwich & Coffee Pam Charles, Owner 4017 Hwy. 66S, Suite 5 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-293-3060
Jena’s Expert Hairstyling Ms. Jena Risner 100 North Depot Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-3807
Just a Little Something Extra Vintage Rentals - Idle Hour Farm & Retreat Laura Heeke 155 Trent Lane Rogersville, TN 37857 865-603-4346 Idlehourfarmandretreat@gmail.com
k Klassy Katering Kimberly Cassidy - 423-272-4027 Sharon Seals 423-272-8444 580 Caney Creek Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 kjCassidy@charter.net
Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce Miles Burdine P. O. Box 1403 Kingsport, TN, 37662 423-392-8800 / 423-246-7236 info@kingsportchamber.org www.kingsportchamber.org
Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce Elaine Bodenwiser P.O. Box 1403 Kingsport, TN, 37662 423-392-8800 / 423-246-7236 info@kingsportchamber.org www.kingsportchamber.org
Kingsport Times-News Jeff Bobo P.O. Box 479 Kingsport, TN, 37662 423-392-1379 / 423-246-7234 jbobo@timesnews.net www.timesnews.net
Kingsport Times-News Keith Wilson P.O. Box 479 Kingsport, TN, 37660 423-246-8121 / 423-392-1385 kwilson@timesnews.net www.timesnews.net
Kingsport Press Credit Union Shiela Lutz 111 West McKinney Ave. Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8299 shielal@kpcu.org www.kpcu.org
Kiwanis Club of Rogersville Russ Williamson P.O. Box 442 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-6615 / 423-272-6618 russ@yourcommunityrealestate.net www.kiwanis.org
Kyle House Reflexology and Massage Therapy Tata Andres, Diane Young & Carolyn Novkov 111 West Main Street Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 423-272-7771
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l Lake Developers Trent Nairn 1510 Highway 25 E Bean Station, TN, 37708 865-993-1871 / 865-993-1876 info@lakedevelopers.com www.lakedevelopers.com
LuElla’s Gift Market Sandy Lakins 117 E Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-7656 sandylakis@yahoo.com
Law Office of Mark Skelton Mark Skelton 121 South Depot Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-4812 / 423-272-0712 markskelton@markskelton.com www.markskelton.com
Law Office of Phillips & Hale William Phillips 210 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7633 / 423-272-6233 wep@phillipsandhale.com
L & K Entertainment Cinema 4 Larry Maysilles 1287 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-0460 lmaysilles@outlook.com www.mycinema4.com
Liberty Lumber Supply Eddie Boles 348 Colonial Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2601 / 865-993-1876
Liberty Tax Service Dana Allen 1300 Lynn Garden Drive Kingsport, TN, 37665 423-921-8773 / 423-921-8743 libtax@charter.netwww.libertytax.com
Liberty Website Designs John Ostermeyer 1616 Fairway Drive Johnson City, TN 37601 423-502-3753 johno@libertywebs.com www.libertywebs.com
Lifeguard Ambulance Service, LLC of Hawkins County Ambulance Service Bernie Hayes, Director 1101 McKinney Avenue Rogersville, TN 37857 423-293-0019 Bernie.hayes@lifeguardambulance.com
LINK- Hawkins County Community Advisory Board Non-Profit 3402 Goshen Valley Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 423-272-4385 /423-921-8044
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Lions Club
Martin’s Produce & Garden Center
Mooresburg Community Association
Robert Maes 248 Lakeshore Circle Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2463 maesr20@chartertn.net www.lionsclub.org
Paul Martin 301 Dodge Drive Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-6300 / 423-272-8613 paul@martinsgreenhouses.com
Priscilla Rogers 318 McNeil Circle Mooresburg, TN, 37811 423-293-0073 / 423-923-1488 mooresburg1@yahoo.com www.mooresburg.net/home
Local Artists Gallery Lee Hoellman 124 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-7656 info@rogersvillegallery.com www.rogersvillegallery.com
Local Heating & Cooling Junior Haney 1120 E Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-6200
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M & M Insurance Pam Davis P. O. Box 1425 Mount Carmel, TN, 37645 423-357-3646 mail@mandminsuranceagency.com www.mandminsuranceagency.com
M. Lacey Land Surveying Contact: Michael Lacey 579 Beech Grove Road Bulls Gap, Tennessee 37711 423-235-5546 mlacey@mlaceylandsurveying.com www.mlaceylandsurverying.com
Main Street Realty
Mattern & Craig, David P. Wilson 403 East Market Street Johnson City, TN, 37601 423-979-2220 / 423-979-2222 dpwilson@matternandcraig.com www.matternandcraig.com
McDonald’s Ron Morrison Hwy 66 & Locust Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-4892 / 423-921-0799 www.mcdonalds.com
McDonald Hills Golf Course Brent Owens 352 Guntown Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-1477
Merle Norman Kim McReynolds 207 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-0730 www.merlenorman.com
Medi Home Care Deborah Day 850 West Main Street, Suite 2 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-921-8888 / 423-921-8767
Cynthia Jackson 1111 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-4400 jckscynth4@aol.com
The Medicine Shoppe
Mary’s Spirits & Fine Wines
Medical Associates of Rogersville
David & Leanne Watson 212 E Washington Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-293-3130 marysspirits@gmail.com
MBM Packaging Labs, Inc.
Jim Begley, DPH 921 East Main Street, Suite #2 Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 423-272-0777 Barbara Fields 405 Scenic Drive Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2111 / 423-272-7667 barbara.field@wellmont.org www.wellmonthealthcare.org
Beth Trent-Metz 1249 Old Hwy 70 South Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-0202 jbmetz@chartertn.net www.mbmpack.com
Melalevca, Direct Sales
MIS, Inc.
Miss Bea’s Perks & Pies
Mary Kilpatrick 119 Industrial Drive Surgoinsville, TN, 37873 423-345-2303 / 423-921-0204 mlkilpatrick@misincinfo.com www.misincinfo.com
Connie Reeves 109 South Church Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-6555 / 423-272-6531 missbeaspies@hotmail.com www.missbeaspies.com
Main Street Beauty Salon
Miss Chamber of Commerce
Nadine Bundren 111 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-4867 / 423-345-4507
Emily Brooks 423-272-2186 www.rogersvillechamber.us
Mark West Hydrocarbon, Inc. Bart Moffett P. O. Box 835 Church Hill, TN, 37642 423-357-8095 www.markwest.com
Phillip McKaughan 119 Hazy Lane Rogersville, Tennessee 423-754-6800 fujimorn@gmail.com
Mooresburg Community Association Priscilla Rogers 132 Church Lane Mooresburg, TN, 37811 423-923-0466 / 423-921-8003 prisrogers@bellsouth.net www.mooresburg.net/home
Mountain Star Mall Kandy Hobbs 122 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7800 / 423-272-4866 mtstar@gmail.com www.mountainstarmall.com
Murrell Weems Land Surveyors Murrell Weems 4313 Highway 66, P.O. Box Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 423-272-6608 / 615-253-0286 mweems285@bellsouth.net
Myers Pumpkin Patch & Corn Maze Vera Ann Myers 3415 Gap Creek Road Bulls Gap, TN, 37711 423-235-4796 / 423-272-6149 veraannM@comcast.net www.myerspumpkinpatch.com
Myers Towing and Recovery Josh Myers 233 Melinda Ferry Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-0607
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Nationwide Insurance Camille Carpenter 124 S Church St. Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2100 / 423-272-1919 carpenc7@nationwide.com www.nationwide.com
NETTA Claudia Moody P.O. Box 415-VG Jonesborough, TN, 37659 423-913-5550 / 423-272-5660 tourism@netta.com www.netta.com
Niswonger Performing Arts Center Darrell Bryan 212 Tusculum Blvd. Greeneville, TN, 37745 423-638-1328 / 423-638-1346 bryand@gcschools.net www.greenevillenpac.com
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One Stop Print Shop Anthony Bledsoe 186 Caney Creek Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-327-0685 abledsoe023@yahoo.com
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Pal’s Sudden Service Josh Thompson 4308 Hwy 66 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-5400 www.palsweb.com
82 discover hawkins county GUIDEBOOK / spring 2015 PC Virus Tech Computer Sales & Service Chris Allen, Owner 322 Colonial Road Rogersville, Tennessee 423-293-0433 callen@pcvirustech.info
Peking Restaurant Andy Gao 420 Park Blvd., Suite # 8 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8278
Pig & Chick Restaurant Marty Beets Highway 11 W / P.O.Box 37 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-4448 r.beets@hotmail.com www.pigandchick.com
Pioneer Credit Co3605 Marilyn Ball 123 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2663 / 423-272-5257 tn3605@pioneercredit.net www.pioneercredit.net
Pipeline Construction Edith Robbins P.O. Box 400 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8303
Pizza Plus Kevin Clarke 1816 Volunteer Pkwy. Bristol, TN, 37620 423-272-7171 / 423-279-0532 pizzaplusinc@aol.com www.pizzaplusinc.com
Price, Doug Doug Price 1324 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7359 gdprice@chartertn.net
Price Public Community Center Stella Gudger P.O. Box 684 / 203 Spring Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-3888 pricepubliccommu@bellsouth.org
Project Access - Non-Profit Aubrey Everhart, Executive Director 809 S. Roan Street, Suite # A Johnson City, TN 37857 423-232-6700 aubrey@ProjectAccessEastTN.org
Promises, Too! Ms. Joann Gillaim 307 S. Depot Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-293-3113 Promises.1@live.com
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Quality Inn 7139 Hwy 11W Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-1842 / 423-272-2897 www.qualityinn.com
r Regions Bank Ms. Rhonda Hunley, Branch Manager 130 West Main Street Mt. Carmel, TN 37642 423-229-0310 / Fax: 423-229-0315 rhonda.hunley@regions.com
Renaissance Farm, LLC. Maria Blackstone 196 Wolfe Branch Road Bulls Gap, TN, 37711 423-235-9746 / 423-235-9070 mblackstone@renaissancefarmtn.com www.renaissancefarmtn.com
Representative Mike Harrison Mike Harrison 219 War Memorial Bldg. Nashville, TN, 37243 423-741-7480 / 615-253-0210 rep.mike.harrison@capitol.tn.gov
Republic Services John Lilly 2825 Carters Valley Road Church Hill, TN, 37642 423-357-1836 + 236 www.disposal.com
Rogersville / Hawkins County Chamber of Commerce Nancy Barker 107 East Main Street Suite #100 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2186 / 423-272-2186** hawkinschamber@gmail.com www.rogersvillechamber.us
Rogersville Heritage Association 415 South Depot Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-1961 / 423-272-0146 director@rogersvilleheritage.org www.rogersvilleheritage.org
Rogersville Housing Authority Becky Wolfe 902 Locust Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8540 / 423-272-4710 bwolfe@rogersvillehousing.net
Rogersville Parks & Recreation Brice Lackey 106 Kyle Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2545 / 423-272-2201 rogpandr@charterinternet.com www.rogersville-tn.com/parks.htm
Rocky Top Printing Ted Trent 206 Rogan Street Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 423-923-2507 Trent1616@gmail.com
Rodefer Moss Company, PLLC Kirk Horner 433 East Center Street Kingsport, TN, 37660 423-246-4062 / 423-247-2028 khorner@rodefermoss.com www.rodefermoss.com
Rogersville Arts Council Jim Begley P.O. Box 575 Rogersville, TN 37857 423-293-0882 rogersvilleartscouncil@gmail.com www.rogersvillearts.org
Rogersville City School Rebecca Isaacs 116 West Broadway Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7651 / 423-272-7790 rebeccai@rcschool.net www.rcschool.net
Rogersville Electric Supply Ronald W. Campbell 401 South Depot Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2923 /423-272-79299 ron@rogersvilleelectric.com www.rogersvilleelectric.com
Rogersville Family Dentistry Timothy Gunnin, DDS 110 South Hasson Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-5353 / 423-272-0047 drgunnin@bellsouth.net www.rogersvillefamilydentistry.com
Rogersville Office Supply Diane Woody 500 West Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7664 /423-272-6124 dwoody@rosinc.com www.rosinc.com
Rogersville Office Supply Gary Varnell 500 West Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7664 / 423-272-6124 service@rosinc.com www.rosinc.com
Rogersville Recycling, Inc. Linda R. Jones 106 Lena Drive Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2223 / 423-272-2223 rogersvillerecycling@charter.net
Rogersville Review, The Tommy Campbell P.O. Box 100 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7422 / 423-272-7889 Tommy.campbell@therogersvillereview.com www.therogersvillereview.com
Rogersville Review, The Buffy Sizemore P.O. Box 100 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7422 / 423-272-7889 buffy.sizemore@therogersvillereveiw.com www.therogersvillereview.com
Rogersville Review, The Abby Swearingen P.O. Box 100 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7422 / 423-272-7889 abby.swearingen@therogersvillereveiw.com www.therogersvillereview.com
Rogersville Tobacco Exchange Terry Whitson 110 Rhea Drive Surgoinsville, TN 37873 423-345-4567
Rogersville Villas Apartment Complex Melinda Stapleton, Manager 200 Arrowhead Drive Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 Phone / Fax: 423-293-3034 rogersvilla@yahoo.com
Rogersville Vision Clinic Eddie Abernathy P.O. Box 160 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2020 eddiea@chartertn.net
Roma Pizza and Italian Restaurant Mohamed Elkhalifa, Owner 7138 Hwy 11W Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 423-272-7774 / 423-272-0774 Mohamedr1971@hotmail.com
Royston Auto Group Chad Royston 5655 Highway 11 W Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7671 / 423-272-7421
Rural Health Services Consortium, Inc. Linda Buck P. O. Box 850 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-9163 / 423-272-3351 buckl@rhsctn.com www.rhsctn.com
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SafeHouse Locksmith Service Randy Price 110 Odell Drive Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-0008 / 423-272-3516 safehouselocksmithsvc@yahoo.com
Sage Trucking Center, LLC 589 Hwy 70 South Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 Clifford Monday, Manager 423-921-3188 / Fax: 423-921-3210 mondaybritney@yahoo.com
Sam Dong, Inc. Andrea Bunch 300 Industrial Park Drive Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-7373 abunch@samdongamerica.com www.samdongamerica.com
Sam Dong, Inc. Leon Molloy 300 Industrial Park Drive Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-7373 / 423-921-7446 leonmolloy@sympatico.com www.samdongamerica.com
Save-a-Lot Robert Popplewell 420 Park Blvd. Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-6909 / 423-272-7979 www.save-a-lot.com
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State Farm Insurance
Tennessee Books & Autographs
Town of Church Hill
Jill Salyers 1105 E Jackson Blvd., Suite 4 Jonesborough, TN 37659 423-268-0870 / 423-753-2263 Jill_Salyers@coker.senate.gov www.corker.senate.gov
Joe Zook 1008 West Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8298 / 423-921-9673 joe@joezook.com www.statefarm.com www.joezook.com
George Webb P. O. Box 637 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-9017 / 423-921-0365 tba@planetc.com
Dennis Deal P.O. Box 366 Church Hill, TN, 37642 423-357-6161 / 423-357-8559 chcity@chartertn.net
Town of Mount Carmel
Stapleton Insurance Agency
Tennessee College of Applied Technology / Hawkins Co. Branch
Harvey Stapleton P.O. Box 38 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8874
John Burdine 323 Phipps Bend Road Surgoinsville, TN, 37873 423-345-4130 / 423-345-4427 jburdine@tcatmorristown.edu
Strate Insurance Group
TN Valley Authority Watershed
Senator Lamar Alexander Lana Moore Terminal Building, Suite # 101 Blountville, TN, 37617 423-325-6240 / 423-325-6236 Lana_Moore@alexander.senate.gov www.alexander.senate.gov
Shirley Graham 610 Steven Street Rogersville, TN 37857
Simply You Kelli Hughes 4025 Hwy. 66 S Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-5503
Simply Tee-Rific Terrence Owens 362 Colonial Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8477 simplyte@bellsouth.net www.simplyteerific.net
Signature Health Care of Rogersville Nancy Laughlin 109 Hwy 70 North Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-3099
Sharp Fencing Bill Sharp & Shannon Sharp 117 Rogan Road Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-2741
Of One Accord Ministry / The Shepherd’s Center
Tom Strate 1750 West AJ Highway Morristown, TN 37814 423-587-2204 / 423-581-4504 tstrate@strateinsurance.com pandrew@strateinsurance.com
Surgoinsville Pharmacy
TVA-John Sevier Combined Cycle Plant
Beth Bryan 114 Bellamy Avenue / P.O Box 105 Surgoinsville, TN 37873 423-345-0333 / 423-345-0336 sbseals2004@yahoo.com
Sonia Trent 611A Old Highway 70 South Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-265-5227 / 423-921-6609 shtrebnt@tva.gov
Sun Homes / Fountain Bay Construction
The Home Place Bed & Breakfast
Rhonda Epling 10697 Hwy 11W / P.O.Box 185 Mooresburg, TN, 37811 865-225-1420 / 423-921-9162
Priscilla Rogers 132 Church Lane Mooresburg, TN, 37811 423-921-8424 / 423-272-3217 pris@usit.net
Sun Loan Company
The Realty Shop
Dustin Hodges 921 East Main Street, Suite# 5 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-5705 180.TN.Rogersville@sunloan.com www.sunloan.com
Sandra Taliaferro 111 West Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-0835 sltaliaferro@yahoo.com
Sunny Side Yarns on Depot
Betty Richardson 609 Douglas Drive Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8442 / 423-272-2984
Sheldon Livesay 306 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-921-8044 / 423-272-2378 ofoneaccord@yahoo.com
Mary Ann Blimline 207 S. Depot Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-9276 yarns@sunnysideyarns.com www.sunnysideyarns.com
Shoemax and M & M Shoes
Sunshine Sandwich Shop
Carol Myers 4017 Hwy 66 South # 6 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2325 / 423-272-3325
Short Mountain Silica Jason Lester 170 Silica Road Mooresburg, TN, 37811 423-272-5700
Shred-A-Way of East TN Donald Garrison P.O. Box 546 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-0970 / 423-272-0973 shredaway.tenn@yahoo.com www.shred-away.com
State Farm Insurance Harold McKinney 125 Stapleton Lane #4 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-9806 /423-272-1872 wheavydutym@bellsouth.net www.statefarm.com www.haroldmckinney.com
Alisha Mulkey 2611 W. Andrew Johnson Hwy. Morristown, TN 37816 865-632-2755 / 865-632-8451 asmulkey@tva.gov
Ed Carroll 109 North Church Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-293-3088 www.sunshinesandwichshop.com
The Richardson Company
Thomas Amis Inn – Historic Site Wendy Jacobs 677 Burem Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 719-322-2755 wendypj@youngminds.com
Tennessee State Representative
Rowdy Henley 4017 Highway 66 South Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-6250
Mike Harrison 301 6th Avenue North Nashville, TN, 37243 615-741-7480 rep.mike.harrison@legislative.state.tn.us
Sweet Amis Catering & Cafe
Town of Bulls Gap
Super Dollar
Jo Ellen Anderson 114 East Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423-921-7400
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TRW, Inc. Daronda Patterson 7500 Highway 11W Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2171 daronda.patterson@trw.com
Larry Frost P.O. Box 1421 Mount Carmel, TN, 37645 423-357-7311 / 423-357-8559 mcch@chartertn.net
Town of Rogersville Bill Lyons P.O. Box 788 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7497 / 423-357-7710 tor01@chartertn.net www.rogersville-tn.com/index.htm
Town of Rogersville Water Department Shawn Hatchett, Superintendent 1616 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2540 / 423-272-9451 rogersvillecityof@bellsouth.net www.rogersville-tn.com/water.htm
Town of Rogersville Mayor Jim Sells 544 Nelson Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7497 / 423-272-9078
Town of Surgoinsville Merrell Graham P.O. Box 67 Surgoinsville, TN, 37873 423-345-2213 surgoinsvillecit@bellsouth.net mayorgreer@gmail.com www.surgoinsvilletn.gov
Tour Designs and More Guerry McConnell 423 East McKinney Avenue Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8549 aguerrymjm@gmail.com
Toyables Bruce Campbell P.O. Box 883 Rogersville, TN 37857 855-875-2977 brucecampbell@toyables.com www.toyables.com
Trent Electrical
Mike Solomon P.O. Box 10, 139 S. Main Street Bulls Gap, TN, 37711 423-235-5216 / 423-235-0078 www.bullsgaptn.us
Electrical Contractor Ryan Trent/ Licensed Owner 3686 Goshen Valley Road Rogersville, TN 37857 423-754-4353 ryantrent37857@gmail.com www.trentelectrical.net Facebook.com/trentelectrial
Town of Church Hill
Tractor Supply, Inc.
Mark Sandidge P.O. Box 366 Church Hill, TN, 37642 423-357-6161 chcity@chartertn.net
Jason Lester 1323 E Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 615-630-4566 str1823@tractorsupply.com
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84 discover hawkins county GUIDEBOOK / spring 2015 Tusculum College Professional Serv. Lindsey Seal 420 W. Morris Blvd. / P.O. Box 1874 Morristown, TN, 37816 423-581-5002 / 423-581-2175 lseal@tusculum.edu
Tusculum College Professional Serv. Jamie Hamer 420 W. Morris Blvd, Morristown, TN 37816 423-636-7330 / 423-581-2175 jhamer@tusculum.edu
Tysinger, Hampton & Partners, Inc. Gary Tysinger P.O. Box 982 Johnson City, TN, 37605 423-282-2687 / 423-282-1621 gtysinger@tysinger-engineering.com
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US Bank David Tipton 107 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7622 / 423-272-5449 David.Tipton@usbank.com
US Bank Eddie Terry 107 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7622 / 423-272-5449 edward.terry@usbank.com
U-Save Discount Drugs Robbie Price 4017 Hwy 66 South #7 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-6408 / 423-272-5449 price@chartertn.net
U-Save Discount Drugs Mary Ellen Evans 4017 Hwy 66 South # 7 Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-6409 / 423-272-3545 usavemgr@usavepharm.com
US BanCorp Investment / Insurance
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Amy France 107 East Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423- 272-7918 / 423-272-6394 we@usbank.com Amy.france@usbank.com
Wal-Mart Mike Knittel 4331 Hwy 66 South Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-7707
US BanCorp Investment / Insurance
Walgreens
Angela Davis 107 East Main Street Rogersville, TN 37857 423- 272-7918 / 423-272-6394 we@usbank.com angela.davis@usbank.com
Kyle Rosenberg 4325 Highway 66 S Rogersville, TN 37857 423-272-9986 mgr.10960@store.walgreens.com www.walgreens.com
University Medical Center
Walker Forge
Home Care Service Barbra Chandler 952 West Broadway, Suite # 3 Rogersville, Tennessee 37857 423-272-2440 / 423-921-3873 Barbara.chandler@lhcgroup.com
Tony Bishop 2105 Schmiede Street Surgoinsville, TN, 37873 423-345-4500+1028
United Parcel Service Business Dev.
Bobby Williams 6057 W. Andrew Johnson Hwy Talbott, TN, 37877 423-317-1060 bobby.williams@ws.edu
Jan Conley 500 Callahan Road Knoxville, TN, 37912 423-689-1552
United Way of Hawkins County 101 West Broadway St., Suite 1 Rogersville, TN 37857-3372 423-272-7379 unitedwayhawkins@weebly.com
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Walters State CC / Five Rivers Regional Career Center
Walters State CC / Five Rivers Regional Career Center Donna Stansberry 6057 W. Andrew Johnson Hwy Talbott, TN, 37877 423-317-1060 / 423-317-1061 Donna.Stansberry@ws.edu
Vulcan Materials
Waste Industries
Albert Wamack 400 Deneen Lane Kingsport, TN, 37660 246-245-4136 / 423-246-2425 wamacka@vmcmail.com
Reid Stewart & David Self P. O. Box 1894 Morristown, TN, 37816 423-581-5655 reid.stewar@wasteindustries.com
Vaughn & Melton
WCYB
Andy Miles 127 Bob Fitz Road, Suite 2 Gray, TN 37615 423-639-0271 / 423-639-0900 amiles@vaughnmelton.com
Warren Sanders 101 Lee Street Bristol, VA 24201 276-645-1555 276 645 1555
Wellmont / Hawkins County Hospital 851 Locust Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-2671 www.wellmont.org
Wellmont Home Care Janet Weems Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-8661 / 423-921-7022
Willow Wellness Center Hypnosis Therapy Linda Armstrong, Owner 124 Main Street East Mount Carmel, TN 37857 423-754-0139
WRGS AM 1370 AM / 94.5 FM Radio, Inc. Philip Beal 211 Burem Road Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-3900 / 423-272-0328 stationmanager@wrgsradio.com
WMCH-AM 1260 Radio Station Manager P.O. Box 128 Church Hill, TN, 37642 423-357-5601 / 423-272-0328
WIA Youth Program Elizabeth Price 403 East Main Street Rogersville, TN, 37857 423-272-4388 / 423-272-4476 elizabeth_price@bellsouth.net
Wimberly Lawson Seale Wright & Davis, PLLC Kelly A. Campbell 929 West First North St. / P.O. Box 1066 Morristown, TN, 37814 423-587-6870 / 423-587-1479 kcampbell@wlswd.com www.wimberlylawson.com
Hawkins County a beautiful place to call home.
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Chamber of Commerce ADVANCE AUTO Richard Newman
CIVIS BANK Vicki Shelton
4646 W. Stone Dr., Kingsport, TN 37660
PO Box 807, Church Hill, TN 37642
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HOLSTON BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER Diana Armstrong
SIGNS UNLIMITED Michael Walker Main Blvd., Church Hill, TN 37642
2005 Venture Park,Kingsport, TN 37660
ARMED FORCES RESERVE LTC James A. Blevins
COOPER STANDARD 377 Phipps Bend Rd., Surgoinsville, TN 37873
399 Hwy. 11W, Mt Carmel, TN 37645
AT-WORK PERSONNEL OF KINGSPORT Susie Speaks
CUSTOM HEATING AND AIR Chad Sawylers
HAWKINS COUNTY PROPERTY ASSESSOR Jeff Thacker
THE LANDINGS ON SILVER LAKE Alicia Olson 230 Silver Lake Rd., Church Hill, TN 37642
TOWN OF MOUNT CARMEL Mayor Larry Frost
212 W Main Blvd., Church Hill, TN 37642
Hawkins County Courthouse Rogersville, TN 37857
4352 W. Stone Dr., Kingsport, TN 37660
DOMINOES Stewart Johnson
LAW OFFICE OF CHRIS RAINES Chris Raines
AT-WORK PERSONNEL OF ROGERSVILLE Samantha Cupp
720 E. Main St., Church Hill, TN 37642
PO Box 1423, Mt Carmel, TN 37645
DOUG SKEENS Doug Skeens
LYNN PARKER Lynn Parker
801 Seven Oaks, Mt Carmel, TN 37645
312 Hunt Ave., Church Hill, TN 37642
EAST HAWKINS CHAMBER Terry Morelock
M & M INSURANCE Pam and Rick Davis
PO Box 1314, Church Hill, TN 37642
PO Box 1425, Mt Carmel, TN 37645
BELINDA AND RACHEL’S CONSIGNMENT Karen Pennington
EASTMAN CHEMICAL Paul Montgomery
MARK JOHNSON Mark Johnson
424 Main St., Mt. Carmel, TN 37645
PO Box 431, Kingsport, TN 37660
PO Box 366, Church Hill, TN 37642
BESTWAY MINI STORAGE Tom Larkins
EASTMAN CREDIT UNION Kevin Hill
MOUNT CARMEL VICE MAYOR Paul Hale
1050 Volunteer Blvd., Church Hill, TN 37642
614 E. Main St., Church Hill, TN 37642
PO Box 1989, Kingsport, TN 37660
PO Box 1421 Mt Carmel, TN 37645
CARROLL JENKINS Carroll Jenkins
FARM BUREAU Sam Griffith
WALTERS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Donna Stanberry
415 E. Main St., Mt Carmel, TN 37645
MIDWAY RECYCLE Clifford Henry
6957 Andrew Johnson Hwy., Talbot, TN 37877
110 E. Main St., Suite 204 Rogersville, TN 37857
3023 Caney Valley Rd., Surgoinsville, TN 37873
YANKEE BEE LINE Terry Yankee
MOUNT CARMEL PET HOSPITAL Kitty Callico
407 E Main St, Mt Carmel, TN 37645
3825 Hwy. 66 Suite B, Rogersville, TN 37857
BAE SYSTEMS Tony Hewitt 4509 W. Stone Dr., Kingsport, TN 37660
CHURCH HILL EMS, INC. Tina Carrico PO Box 206 Church Hill, TN 37642
CHURCH HILL LIBRARY Dana Parker
PO Box 1421, Mt Carmel, TN 37645
PO Box 67, Surgoinsville, TN 37873
TRI-SUMMITT BANK Brent Mullins 417 Evergreen St., Church Hill, TN 37642
US BANK Scott Lawson PO Box 7, Church Hill, TN 37642
FIRST COMMUNITY BANK Steve Waller PO Box 40, Church Hill, TN 37642
204 Main St., Mt Carmel, TN 37645
FIRST DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN’S OFFICE Dr. Phil Roe
412 E. Main Blvd., Church Hill, TN 37642
1609 College Park Dr., Suite 4 Morristown, TN 37813
CHURCH HILL PET HOSPITAL Andy Straley
FRANK MARSH Frank Marsh
NEW CANTON PLANTATION Tommy Skelton 826 W. Main Blvd., Church Hill, TN 37642
PAL’S SUDDEN SERVICE Jerry King 437 Richmond Ave., Church Hill, TN 37642
PO Box 2517, Church Hill, TN 37642
GENERAL DENTISTRY Dr. John E. Renye, DDS
PIG & CHICK RESTAURANT Marty and Richard Beets
402 E. Main Blvd., Church Hill, TN 37642
5020 Hwy. 11W, Rogersville, TN 37857
412 E .Main Blvd., Church Hill, TN 37642
HAWKINS COUNTY MAYOR Melville Bailey
REPUBLIC SERVICES John Lilly
CITY OF CHURCH HILL Mayor Dennis Deal
50 Washington St., Rogersville, TN 37857
2825 Carter’s Valley Rd., Church Hill, TN 37642
PO Box 366, Church Hill, TN 37642
HAWKINS COUNTY GAS UTILITY Patrick Lund
THE ROGERSVILLE REVIEW Joel Spears
CHURCH HILL SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER Tammy Bentley
TOWN OF SURGOINSVILLE Mayor Merrell Graham
PO Box 100, Rogersville, TN 37857
202 Park Blvd., Rogersville, TN 37857
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advertisers Auto-Brite Professional Detailers .................................. 20 Baldor Dodge Reliance ................................................. 74 Bays Mountain Park & Planetarium ............................... 60 Bulls Gap Custom Meats ................................................ 43 Bulls Gap Drugs ............................................................ 20 Carter K Boutique .......................................................... 51 Campbell’s Hometown Pharmacy.................................. 42 Cellular Communications - Verizon ................................ 61 Christian-Sells Funeral Home ........................................ 75 Church Hill Drug Store ................................................... 61 Church Hill Vet Hospital ................................................. 36 Colonial Mini Storage .................................................... 20 Colboch-Price Funeral Home ......................................... 36 Couch Greenhouse......................................................... 42 Creek Country Real Estate.............................................. 42 Cumberland Caverns ..................................................... 57 Custom Heating & Air Conditioning ............................... 65 East Tenn Pest Control ................................................... 20 Eastman Credit Union.................................................... 22 Farm Bureau Insurance.................................................. 60 First Community Bank ................................................... 69 Givens -Nelson Realty, Inc. ............................................ 65 Grayson Subaru .............................................................. 3 GreatDay Screen Printing & Embroidery ........................ 57 Greene’s Trailer & Equipment......................................... 20 Hancock County Home Health and Hospice Agency....... 56 Hancock Medical Equipment ......................................... 56 Hancock Manor Nursing Home ...................................... 56 Hardwood Specialties.................................................... 75 Hawkins County Gas Utility ....................... 4, 44-45 (Map) Hawkins County Lutheran Worship Community .............. 6 Henry’s Carpet Service ................................................... 56 Investment Rental Properties ........................................ 43 Local Heating / Cooling ................................................... 8 M & M Firearms ............................................................ 20 Main Street Realty......................................................... 43 Martin’s Greenhouses & Nursery ................................... 43 Mauk’s of Jonesborough ................................................ 74 Mark A. Skelton, Attorney at Law .................................. 75 Medical Center Pharmacy.............................................. 60
Mike Harrison, State Representative.............................. 74 Miss Bea’s Perks and Pies ............................................... 73 Mounts Mechanical Contractors .....................................70 Nationwide Insurance ................................................... 69 NPAC - Niswonger Performing Arts Center .................... 64 Oakes Salvaged Freight ................................................. 61 Papa John’s.................................................................... 73 Pioneer Credit Company ................................................ 56 Quality Inn / Comfort Inn .............................................. 70 Republic Services .......................................................... 43 RNK Logging ................................................................. 74 Rogersville City School System ..................................... 66 Rogersville / Hawkins County Chamber of Commerce ... 87 Rogersville Main Street .................................................. 2 Roma Pizza & Italian Restaurant ................................... 72 Rural Health Services Consortium, Inc. / Laser Skincare of Rogersville....................................... 50 Scott Farmer’s Repair Shop ............................................ 42 Short Mountain Silica Company .................................... 36 Signature Properties ..................................................... 56 Silver Lake Garden Center.............................................. 36 Skelton Law Racing ....................................................... 62 St. Clair Restaurant........................................................ 73 Stapleton Insurance Agency .......................................... 74 T&T Package Store......................................................... 42 Terry’s Carpet................................................................. 20 The Medicine Shoppe .................................................... 36 The Rogersville Review ................................................... 76 The Shepherd’s Center / Of One Accord .......................... 23 Tennessee College of Applied Technology...................... 66 Tennessee Institute of Cosmetology .............................. 57 Town of Bulls Gap.......................................................... 70 Town of Rogersville ......................................................... 8 United Country Real Estate | Clinch Mountain Realty and Auction ............................ 88 Walmart ....................................................................... 69 Walters State Community College ................................. 57 Wilderness at the Smokies ............................................ 64 Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame .................................. 66 Yoder’s Country Market ................................................. 60 BACKGROUND PHOTO BY SHELDON LIVESAY
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