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Between two brothers Hawkins County men share miraculous connections through organ donation — page 9
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Can you believe it’s FALL again? If you are visiting for the region’s gorgeous autumn color, you’ll find plenty of God’s handiwork in the patchwork quilt-colors splashed all over our mountains and valleys. There’s also an enormous variety of activities packed into the fall and early winter months for all ages to enjoy. The streets through historic downtown Rogersville will be alive with color and every variety of “arts and crafts” items on the planet, with many unique gift ideas for the holidays that are just around the corner. Take time to visit the county’s many antique and art shops, sample the local cuisine, and listen to some of the best live country, bluegrass, gospel, and contemporary music this side of Nashville. No matter if you are a first-time visitor or a “life-long” resident, this edition of the Review’s twice-a-year magazine is submitted for your pure enjoyment. The Fall 2016 edition is jam-packed with history, culture, events and places of interest, and the faces of the people who truly are Hawkins County. If you picked up this magazine in one of Tennessee’s Interstate Welcome Centers, we hope you will come and “sit a spell” on our historic “front porch”. Visit the historic Courthouse in Rogersville (ca. 1836), one of the oldest in the state, and one that many first-time visitors mistakenly think is a church because of its bell-tower steeple! Down at Rogers Cemetery you can see the graves of the founders of Rogersville (Joseph and Mary Amis Rogers), and the grandparents of Davy Crockett (who lived right there at the site and who were massacred by Indians in the 1700’s). Just up the street is the beautiful Hale Springs Inn, also one of the oldest in the state, that dates to 1824 when Rogersville was a stop on the Great Wilderness Road, and a stagecoach stop between Washington and points south and east. At the Inn, go in and see the three “presidential” rooms, where Presidents Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson and James Polk stayed on visits here. (Book a room and tell folks you slept where Presidents slept!) Rogersville is also the home of Tennessee’s very first newspaper and at the Depot Museum (operated by the Heritage Association), where you can see early printing equipment (including the Linotype used to set type for The Rogersville Review in its early days) and front pages of many of the county’s former papers. Up the hill is Swift Museum, where Hawkins County’s AfricanAmerican heritage is displayed. Director Stella Gudger will be glad to give you a tour of the historic facility. Over at Bulls Gap, the Archie Campbell Museum contains many
artifacts of the iconic landscape artist and Grand Ole Opry and Hee Haw star. Also in the town’s museum are Civil War artifacts from the Battle of Bulls Gap, and just across the way is the Railroad Museum. Just north of Rogersville, in Church Hill, is Laurel Run Park where the 1984 movie “The River”, starring Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek and Hawkins County’s own 12-year old Shane Bailey, was filmed. Go and hike the short distance up the trail to the mountain stream and waterfall featured in the opening scenes of the film. Throw in all of the county’s Revolutionary War and Civil War landmarks, the water-related sports on the Holston River and Cherokee Lake and you could spend a week or more just focusing on the wealth of historic and recreational sites in our county. 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 also home to many outstanding artists, musicians and craftsmen whose talents are known far outside the boundaries of northeastern Tennessee. Probably 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 Discover” magazine to focus in one issue on every single attraction and event that our county has to offer, but if you are a first-time visitor, 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. No matter why you are here, please accept this as our personal invitation to come and visit again ... to 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 (the real-life home of some of the most famous fictional characters of all time, Western author Louis L’Amour’s “Sackett” family) to Bulls Gap on the east, and from Allandale and Kingsport in the north to Mooresburg and Bean Station in the south. Welcome, friends! We truly hope that after one visit you will want to come back ... again and again.
Probably 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.
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FEATURES INSIDE: Between two brothers
Hawkins County men share miraculous connection through organ donation
About Organ Donation Who’s on the list? How to become an organ donor.
A Spark for Life Church Hill man chronicles 60-plus-year fire fighting career, from Kennedy Space Center to East Tennessee
FIRST the Regionals, then the World
Solar Go-Kart Challenge Volunteer art students have left their mark Hawkins County’s historic
War Between the States sites receive official Civil War Trails signage
Haunts, Haints & Other Mysterious Tales of Hawkins County Welcome to Hawkins County Advertiser Index
Story suggestions, inquiries should be made to news@therogersvillereview.com
Discover Hawkins County - Fall 2016 is a single-copy supplement to The Rogersville Review. Additional copies may be picked up at the Review office and are available at not coast. We will gladly mail at a cost of $4 per copy to cover the cost of postage and handling. Copyright: 2016 Discover Hawkins County - Fall 2016, Hawkins County Publishers, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission of the newspaper’s management. Reproduction of advertising and design work is strictly prohibited due to the use of licensed art services and agency agreements.
ON THE Pictured above at left, are Richard Conley and Arthur Dunn at Vanderbilt in the days COVER: following a miraculous kidney transplant procedure. — Photo by Debbie Dunn. Photo at right, the two families gather at the Conleys’ home a year later — from left: Monica Conley, Richard Conley, Arthur Dunn, Hayden Dunn, and Debbie Dunn. They share their amazing journey on page 9. — Photo by Tommy Campbell
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“Your brother doesn’t have to hurt like this. You can do something about it.” — God.
Richard and Arthur at Vanderbilt Medical Center during one of their pre-transplant screening visits. — Courtesy Debbie Dunn
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Between two brothers Hawkins County men share miraculous connection through organ donation
“Your brother doesn’t have to hurt like this. You can do something about it.” The words echoed in Richard Conley’s head that Sunday at Hope Community Church. They were words that grabbed his heart and touched his soul – words from God that would eventually change lives. It was the day when he decided to follow what his God told him to do – to give of himself to save someone else’s life. Sitting in the living room of his rustic home along a back road in Hawkins County, Richard speaks quietly about that Sunday morning, and about the events that transpired during the months that followed. As he speaks, he smiles often at the man sitting beside him, and the two exchange looks that seem to connect them beyond their words. At first glance, the connection between Richard Conley and Arthur Dunn seems unlikely, their brotherhood improbable. In the eyes of others, the two are radically different, separated by age and life experiences — and race. But for Richard and Arthur, the bond is more significant than a mere relationship among peers. It is, they say, far deeper than their skin. Their relationship began through a shared faith, a shared service at their church, and a shared desire to raise foster children. But in September of last year, they shared something else — a kidney. Both men tell stories of the days before their faith changed them, days when they had lived different lifestyles, far away from the doors of a church, and far removed for a life controlled by the God that they now serve. Their stories, though vastly different, share the common tale of two men whose paths led them to a faith strong enough to move mountains. It was that faith that led to a miracle that changed both of their lives.
Arthur, 63, had been suffering with kidney disease for more than 20 years. “I had just gotten out of the Army when I found out,” Arthur said. “I didn’t even know I was sick. But I was.” Arthur went through years of ailing health, taking medication and suffering through a long list of problems related to his disease. He was not alone. One in every 10 Americans has some form of chronic kidney disease, according to the National Institutes of Health, and African-Americans are far more likely to suffer with it than those of most other races. A 2014 report from the National Kidney Foundation said that black Americans are three times more likely than white Americans to develop kidney disease and require dialysis. In 2010, Arthur’s condition grew worse. With his kidneys barely functioning, the toxins in his body were increasing at an alarming rate. “They told me my creatinine was getting higher and higher,” he said. “They said that I would have two years until I needed dialysis.” But Arthur did not have that long at all. An accident at work caused doctors to prescribe steroids, and the medications destroyed what remained of the function of his kidneys. “Six months later, my kidneys were gone,” he said. “I was on dialysis for two years when I was put on the transplant list.” Approved for a transplant in July of 2014, Arthur joined about 100,000 other Americans who are placed on the list each year. Among them, only about 16,000 actually receive new organs, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The statistics are even more alarming when it comes to AfricanAmericans. A study published in 2012 by the American Journal of Kidney continued on page 10
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Disease estimated that African-Americans have at least a 35% lesser chance of receiving a live kidney donation than white Americans. Those statistics are true in every donation center in the country. Although the factors causing the low numbers of donations are complex, most experts agree that the lack of knowledge about kidney donation among AfricanAmericans may be a contributing factor, along with the higher rates of diabetes and high blood pressure – conditions that would preclude them from becoming donors. Arthur’s own search for a kidney donor was not without stumbling blocks. Statistics show that organ donations are far more common between family members, and tests at that time revealed that his oldest son was a match. But the week before the transplant was scheduled to take place, the donor son was diagnosed with high blood pressure. The donation was off. None of his other family members could provide a match. A few members of his church also underwent testing to see if they could be his donor, but none could do so. “People tried,” Arthur said, “but no one could do it. So I just kept doing what I was doing.” Month after month, Arthur lived his life under the shadow of his dire prognosis, relying on dialysis to stay alive. “I remember going to dialysis one morning, thinking ‘God, why did you let me go through this?’” Arthur recalled. “I shouldn’t have thought it. God said, ‘I’ve got plans for you. My Son died for you.’” Arthur said that his faith grew at that point and he understood that he would go through more trials but that God was in control of his life. “After that, I never questioned it again,” Arthur said with a broad smile. “He said He loves me, and that’s all I needed.” Arthur continued his dialysis, knowing that he had little time left unless he received a new kidney. The chances of finding a donor seemed increasingly less likely as time went by. But— unknown to Arthur at the time — a church service that Sunday morning would change everything. “I was sitting in church, and the Holy Spirit just dealt with me,” Richard recalls. Richard recounted what he described as a revelation from God – a voice that was undeniable. “There was no doubt in my mind,” he said, smiling knowingly at the man who sat on the sofa beside him. “I knew what I needed to do. When the Holy Spirit talks to you, you know it.” Following the service, Arthur was surprised when Richard asked him when he had to return to see his physician. “He said he was going with me,” Arthur remembered, shaking his
“I remember going to dialysis one morning, thinking ‘God, why did you let me go through this?’ I shouldn’t have thought it. God said, ‘I’ve got plans for you. My Son died for you.’” Arthur Dunn
head in disbelief. “He just said, “God told me I’ve got your kidney.” Richard traveled to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, for testing to see if he was, in fact, a match for Arthur. Much to the surprise of medical personnel and others, the match was perfect. But that wasn’t a surprise to Richard. “I already knew I would be a match,” he said. “God told me, and I had no reason to doubt it.” Because Richard’s blood was Type O, known as the universal donor, his blood type was not a factor as a transplant donor for Arthur, who is Type B. Other antibodies and markers also come into play, and successful organ transplantations hinge upon finding a strong tissue match between the donor and the recipient. According to April DeMer, post-transplant nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt, despite the genetic differences, transplants between people of different races are not that uncommon today. “There are differences in antibodies and antigens between people with different ethnicities and genetics that can make it more difficult to match,” DeMer said. “But we have such great technology today that we are able to match recipients of one race with those of another.” Although others were skeptical that Richard would be a match for Arthur, Richard was not skeptical at all. “Richard never had a doubt about it,” said his wife Monica. “He never hesitated at all. He just said he knew the Holy Spirit had told him to do it.” But complications threatened to override their plans. A scan showed three large vessels going into Richard’s kidneys, a problem that doctors claimed would make the surgery too difficult. Richard was devastated. “I knew this is what the Holy Spirit told me to do,” he said. “It broke my heart. I felt like I had let him down.” But within a few weeks, the second miracle happened. “Vanderbilt called out of the blue,” Richard recalled. “They said, ‘Mr. Conley, you are a certified donor’.” During the weeks that followed, Richard and Arthur prepared for the surgery. Through each step of the preparation, doctors gave Richard ample opportunities to change his mind. “They kept telling me I could get out of this, that I didn’t have to go through with it,” Richard remembered. “But I just said, ‘no, I’m in this.’” Some of Richard’s family members also tried to convince him not to go through with the donation, fearing that he would not survive the surgery. “Some wanted me to call it off,” he recalls. “One had a family member who had died afterward, but I just said, ‘Would you rather me die disobeying God or die obeying Him? If I’m going to die, I’m going to die obeying Him.’”
“I was sitting in church, and the Holy Spirit just dealt with me. There was no doubt in my mind. I knew what I needed to do. When the Holy Spirit talks to you, you know it.” Richard Conley
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Sharing a grateful moment together in the hospital are Debbie and Arthur Dunn and Richard and Monica Conley. — Courtesy Debbie Dunn continued from page 10
On September 17, 2015, Richard and Arthur checked into Vanderbilt to undergo the surgeries. “His surgery took from two and a half to three hours,” Arthur’s transplant surgeon Dr. David Shaffer said. “That’s the typical time period for the surgery.” During the procedures, family and friends gathered to pray for the success of the transplant. “While we were there in the hospital, there was never a doubt in my mind that they would be okay,” Monica said. “We just knew.” The surgeries went smoothly, with no complications for either the donor or the recipient. While recovering in the hospital, Richard realized that Arthur’s health was not the only miracle that happened there. “I realized that God could have healed a lot of people in that hospital that day, but He let me come back to my family,” Richard said. Richard’s recuperation took away his ability to earn a living in their family-operated business for a time, but, he said, God had a plan for that, too. “Business had been up so much that year that the money carried us through until I was able to work again,” said Richard, shaking his head in amazement. “Everything that needed to happen, God made it happen.” Arthur’s recuperation was also without significant problems. “The surgery went well, and he was discharged from the hospital five days later,” Dr. Shaffer said. “Except for one hospitalization this year for an infection, there have been no other complications.” Today, a year after the transplant, Arthur is healthy and dialysis-free. “His creatinine levels are better than mine are,” laughed Richard. “I
tell him he got my best kidney.” Dr. Shaffer said that, for most kidney transplant patients who receive living kidneys, the recipient usually fares very well for up to 15 years before the donated kidney has any problems with function. “Patients usually have about 95% of kidney function after a year, and after three years, about 90%,” Dr. Shaffer said. “Those who receive kidneys from living donors have good kidney function much longer than those from deceased donors.” Both Richard and Arthur said that other people have been amazed at the circumstances surrounding the donation, but they are not. “I think God planned this,” Arthur said. “He did this to show other people that He is still alive and still in control.” Their story has also transformed others in their church and led to other potential medical healings. “After that, a girl in our church gave a kidney to a friend,” Monica explained. Another church member has also been going through testing to become a donor. “We see all that God has been doing through this,” Monica added. “But He’s not finished. What will we see in 10 years that He has done through all of this?” The two men now often talk about the events that led to the transplant, and about the bond that it created between them. “I have a big brother now,” Richard said, laying his hand on the continued on page 14
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Both men are all smiles as they celebrate what both see as a miracle from the hand of God. Couresty of Debbie Dunn
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“I think God planned this. He did this to show other people that He is still alive and still in control.� Donor and recipient walk down the hallway at Vanderbilt in the days following the miraculous kidney transplant procedure. — Courtesy of Debbie Dunn
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“I have a big brother now. We share something real brothers don’t, and it’s not just a kidney. When you go through something like this together, you are close. In our world right now, the news tells us everyday that we hate each other because we are different colors. When Christ was on the cross, He died for everyone. It hurts me to hear that we are supposed to hate each other because of the color of our skin. It’s a lie. This is my brother, and I can’t hate my brother.” Richard Conley
A year after the transplant, the two families gathered at the Conleys’ home near Rogersville to talk about their amazing journey of faith. From left: Monica Conley, Richard Conley, Arthur Dunn, Hayden Dunn, and Debbie Dunn. — Photo by Tommy Campbell continued from page 14
shoulder of the man beside him. “We share something real brothers don’t, and it’s not just a kidney. When you go through something like this together, you are close.” “In our world right now, the news tells us everyday that we hate each other because we are different colors,” he added. “When Christ was on the cross, He died for everyone. It hurts me to hear that we are supposed to hate each other because of the color of our skin. It’s a lie. This is my brother, and I can’t hate my brother.” “I’m speechless when I look at him sometimes,” Arthur said, smiling at his ‘brother’. “Richard has to be a great man to listen to God like that.” Richard is now an outspoken proponent for organ donation, taking opportunities to talk about the need for the compassion that prompts someone to give part of themselves to others. “People who don’t want to be organ donors are missing out,” Richard continued on page 15
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“The beauty of the story is how the transplant came about. It shows you the level of compassion that leads people to donate their organs. We need that kind of compassion so that we can find donors for all the others who are waiting for them.”
April DeMer,
post-transplant nurse practitioner, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. continued from page 14
claimed. “They are missing the fact that you have to get rid of this body before you can get your new one.” DeMer said that, in addition to the transformation that the surgery has brought to Arthur’s physical health, the circumstances surrounding the transplant are inspiring. “The beauty of the story is how the transplant came about,” DeMer said. “It shows you the level of compassion that leads people to donate their organs. We need that kind of compassion so that we can find donors for all the others who are waiting for them.” As he talks about his own sense of Spirit-led compassion, Richard is quick to deny his role in the events that took place. Instead, he credits the work of God in the miracle of Arthur’s recovery. “I didn’t do anything,” he said. “It was all God. I never wanted to be patted on the back. I was just doing what He told me to do. When God allows you to walk that close to Him, it is a peace that you can’t find anywhere else. You don’t need to doubt that it will all work out. You just say ‘Your will be done’, and it will be.” “What happened was not surprising to me at all. It was everything God said it would be,” he added. “God said it was going to work, and it did.”
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About Organ Donation • Transplantation has saved and enhanced the lives of more than 500,000 people in the U.S. • An average of 22 people die each day waiting for organ transplants. • Every 10 minutes another person is added to the national transplant list. • Living organ donation dates back to 1954, when a kidney from one twin was successfully transplanted into his identical brother. Today, the number of living organ donors is more than 6,000 per year. • Live donors can donate kidneys, as well as portions of lungs, liver, pancreas, or intestine. • Parents, children, husbands, wives, friends, co-workers, or total strangers can be living donor candidates. • Living donor candidates should be at least 18 years of age and in good physical health, free from high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, HIV, hepatitis, or organ-specific diseases. • One organ donor (deceased) can save up to 8 lives. • Only 3 out of 1,000 people die in a way that allows for organ donation. • For deceased donors, organs are not procured until every life-saving measure has failed. Open casket funeral are usually possible following organ donation. • The success rate for organ transplants is between 80% and 90%.
WHO’S ON THE LIST?
• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 10% of American adults – about 20 million people — have chronic kidney disease. Among those Americans, 600,000 are on dialysis and another 100,000 are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. Yet only 16,000 kidney transplants are done each year. • 30,970 organ transplants – including kidneys and other organs – were performed in the U.S. last year. • White Americans account for 68% of all organ donors, while African-Americans account for only 14%, according to the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
HOW TO BECOME AN ORGAN DONOR
• To help someone through living donation, talk to the patient and to the transplant program where the person is listed. To be a non-directed living donor, contact a transplant center to find out if they have this type of donation program. • Talk to your family. Tell them of your wishes to be an organ donor in case of your death. • In most states, a willing donor can list his/her intentions when obtaining or renewing a driver’s license, but potential donors should also tell family members of their intentions and/or list those intentions in a living will. For information about organ donation, visit the website for the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), at
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Church Hill man chronicles 60-plus-year fire fighting career, from Kennedy Space Center to East Tennessee
ill stood in the basement of his Church Hill home. A table sat in front of him, lined with boxes that overflowed with folders. To his left, a careworn American Flag laid neatly folded. To his right, an unsorted stack of files waited to be put away as he thumbed through dozens of labels. “This is it, Bill Killen’s life by years,” he said. “Nineteen Fifty to Fifty-nine,” he mumbled, pulling a sleeve of paperwork. The exact year was 1956. Bill was a teen who had just accepted membership into his local fire department. “I turned 16 in February, put my application in, and on March 7, 1956 was elected as a member of Potomac Heights [Maryland] Volunteer Fire Department,” he recalled. He kept the original application for his files. More than 60 years, and a career devoted to fire safety, later Killen has a story to tell, and a museum of memorabilia that takes invited guests from his boyhood home to the launch pads of Kennedy Space Center and around the world. “This collection is basically my career,” he said, as he looked around the small room. It’s located in he and wife Carole’s repurposed basement, adjacent to his workshop and garage. “I had collected all this stuff and it got to a point where I said, ‘Wait a minute. I can’t collect everything there is about the fire service.’ So, I decided I would only collect stuff related to my career and here it is.” The result was an extensive personal collection of gear, including one-of-a-kind, antique fire trucks, as well as numerous honors, medals, Bill Killen has an extensive and varied collection of fire fighting memorabilia and uniforms, helmets, photos, and documents that chronicle his adventures. antique fire fighting equipment in a basement museum at his Church Hill home. continued on page 23 — Photo by Joel Spears
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A mannequin dons what looks like a 1950s sci-fi movie costume, but its value was far more important. Killen wore the aluminized suit as part of NASA’s first Astronaut Rescue Team. He was one of the original five team members and it is the gear he wore for Apollo and Skylab. — Photos by Joel Spears
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Killen, pictured above in a red hard hat that can also been seen on the left-hand page, said this NASA photograph was taken early on the morning of July 26, 1971 as the Apollo 16 crew departed the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building for the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. “The launch occurred at 9:34 a.m. and as I vaguely remember this photo was taken before 7 a.m.,” he said. “The uniqueness of this photograph is the ‘First Man on the Moon’ stamp cancelled at the Kennedy Space Center U.S. Post Office shortly after the launch.” continued from page 21
“I have every helmet from every fire service job I’ve had,” Bill said pointing to a shelf that extended the length of the room along the ceiling. “Beginning with my fire service in Potomac Heights, I have the helmet from my first paid job and all those helmets up there are from every one of my career, paid jobs.” “Each step I took in my fire service career was always moving forward,” he noted. “Each one of those helmets has a specific relationship to something I’ve done along the way. Each job was something different, something unique.” Killen’s dad, to whom he attributes his interests, was also a fireman. “After the war, my father was a firefighter at Bowling Army Airfield and, as a six- and seven-year-old, I and my siblings had some visits to the local fire station. The trucks excited me. I enjoyed the fellowship of the fire service people and I enjoyed helping others.” “If I had a ten dollar bill for every time I got spanked for chasing a fire truck down the street from the time I was six years old, I’d have some money,” he said with a laugh. “Every time a fire truck went down the road, I went after it.” When he was finally old enough to act on his passion for fire and
Killen is pictured working on a command module at Kennedy Space Center.
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Newsmen and other well-wishers photograph the Apollo 16 astronauts as they prepare to board a transfer van for a brief ride to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in April 1972. Bill Killen can be seen at the top of the photo (left), walking behind one of the astronauts. — Photo credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Thumbing through dozens of pages of files from throughout his career, Bill looks at his first fire fighters application from Potomac Heights, Maryland dated 1956. — Photo by Joel Spears
March 7 1956
June 19 1960
July 19 1965
October 7 1968
January 3 1973
September 3 1974
February 1976
February 4 1977
November 7 1977
February 5 1979
At the age of 16 Elected Junior Member Potomac Heights Volunteer Fire Department, Indian Head, MD.
Appointed Probationary Firefighter, Naval Propellant Plant, Indian Head, MD
Appointed Firefighter, Kennedy Space Center Fire Department, Titusville, FL
Appointed Apollo Astronaut Rescue Team, Kennedy Space Center Fire Department
First registered Emergency Medical Technician in the Kennedy Space Center Fire Department, Florida Registry No. 2064
Appointed Fire Chief, Lake Barton Fire Control District, Orlando, FL
Awarded Winter Park, FL Jaycees Cooper-Taylor Memorial Safety Award
Received Winter Park, FL Jaycees Good Government Award
Appointed Senior Instructor, Maryland Fire & Rescue Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Appointed Explosives Safety Specialist, Naval Surface Warfare Center, White Oak, Silver Spring, MD
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Killen’s Medal for Exceptional Service from the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense hangs on the wall in his home office. — Photo by Joel Spears
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rescue service, Bill joined the local volunteer fire department at Potomac Heights. His first commendation was a letter from the local homeowner’s association following a house fire that left a family homeless. “In the summer of ’56, after fire had displaced this family, I spent the day gathering furniture and clothing for them, but I also just enjoyed helping people,” he said. After high school graduation, Bill went on active duty with the Army, then the Navy, followed by a job with the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Fire Department. He accepted the KSC job following a visit to Florida. “A friend from the volunteer fire department where I started told me that the Kennedy Space Center Fire Department was hiring. So, in May 1965 I met with the fire chief. He handed me an application and wrote across the top ‘July 19’ and said, ‘You have a job. Come to work,’ and I hadn’t even filled out the application. “In July of ’65 I went to work for the Kennedy Space Center.” Back in the corner of his museum, a mannequin donned what looked like a 1950s sci-fi movie costume, but its value was far more important. Killen wore the aluminized suit as part of NASA’s first Astronaut Rescue Team. “I was one of the original five team members and that’s the gear I wore for Apollo and Skylab,” he said. “One of these days I’m going to put the Skylab patches on the jacket.” The Astronaut Rescue Team came about as a result of the Apollo I Fire in 1967 that killed Command Pilot Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White II, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. “I knew those men,” Killen said. “I knew Grissom from having fished with him, and I knew Ed White because his mother and father were February 4 1980 Appointed Fire Chief, Metropolitan Washington Airports, Gravelly Point, Alexandria VA (Washington National and Dulles International Airports)
July 17 1980
1982
Awarded Awarded Venezuelan Federal Aviation Government Civil Administration Aviation Fire Services Medal for Meritorious Special Achievement Award Service
August 1984
August 19 1985
Awarded International Association of Fire Chief’s Ben Franklin Fire Department Award
Appointed Fire Marshal Program Administrator, U.S. Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Alexandria, VA
customers of mine in a side business I had trimming trees.” Following the deadly fire, NASA determined a dedicated rescue team was needed to extract astronauts from their command modules in case of emergency. “The selection for the team was limited to the 120 members of the Kennedy Space Center Fire Department and I was one of the nine members selected for that original team,” he said. “That was an exciting time, unique and interesting. There was a lot of training. We spent months trying to get ready for the launch of Apollo 8 to circle the Moon. We were 1,800 feet from the launch pad—within its perimeter. Bill and his teammate’s jobs were to open up the command module, freeing the pilots inside. “When we first started, NASA wanted us to be able to get the astronauts in less than two minutes. Our extraction goal was one minute from opening the last protective hatch cover.” The process included all personnel in the craft while dealing with dangers presented by rockets and potential explosions, so Killen said they managed to lower their one-minute goal to 22 seconds from the time the hatch was opened. Bill was also the first emergency medical technician to KSC Fire Department, and maintained his tech status until retirement from the Navy in 2004, with health certifications in three states. Killen stayed with the program through the end of NASA’s Skylab in February 1974 and later co-authored a book titled “Kennedy Space Center Fire Department: The First 30 Years.” Following his time at the Space Center, in August 1974 he was appointed fire chief of Lake Barton (Fla.) Fire Control District in Orange County, near Orlando. continued on page 27
May 1986
Appointed Director, Navy Fire & Emergency Services, U.S. Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Received United Black Fund Alexandria, VA of Greater Washington DC Community Service Award
August 2000
August 2001
August 2003
August 21 2003
Awarded International Association of Fire Chiefs President’s Award for Service
Received Ray Picard Award, from the Commission on Fire Accreditation International
Elected Second Vice-President, International Association of Fire Chiefs, Fairfax, VA
International Association of Fire Chiefs Foundation recognition for contributions and commitment to the International Association of Fire Chiefs Foundation
Received Commander, USS Cole Special Recognition Award
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In his garage, Killen has two of his own special acquisitions; two fire trucks that include a restored 1920 Ford Model-T Obenchain-Boyer Rotary Gear Pumper, complete with gold leaf lettering, a hand crank siren and the original extinguishers. Above, center, his collection also includes an honor from the Iraqi Civil Defense Minister in 2004. — Photos by Joel Spears
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He kept that job until December 1977 when he moved back to Maryland where he became part of the faculty at the University of Maryland’s (UM) Fire and Rescue Institute. There, he was responsible for Hazardous Materials and Disaster Management Training programs. He remained at UM until April 1979 and stayed on as a part-time faculty member, then went to work as a Navy Explosives Safety Specialist until 1980, when he was appointed first fire chief of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Airports. “The FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] owned National Airport and Dulles Airport—two separate entities—and consolidated them into one organization,” he said. “The two fire chief titles were changed to assistant chief, they recruited outside for the fire chief and I was hired
from the outside.” During his service at Metro Washington, the Florida Air Crash occurred on the city’s 14th Street Bridge. Killen managed both airport fire departments until August 1985, when he accepted an appointment as Director of Navy Fire and Emergency Services. “The job with the heaviest responsibility was when I took the job with the Navy where I was responsible for 120 Navy fire departments in 38 states and 22 foreign countries,” he noted. “I averaged between $10 and $12 million in acquisitions for the Navy,” he said. “In Hawkins County, there are at least three, maybe four, fire trucks in service that I designed and bought for the Navy.” continued on page 29
August 2004
August 16 2004
September 2004
January 18 2005
August 2005
September 2006
August 2011
2013
November 2014
May 2015
Elected First Vice-President, International Association of Fire Chiefs, Fairfax, VA
Inductee No. 1, United States Navy Fire & Emergency Services Hall of Fame
Awarded Department of the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award
Appointed Fire Chief, Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Kingsport, TN
Elected President, International Association of Fire Chiefs, Fairfax, VA
Awarded Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service
Ambassador of the Year Award, Center for Public Safety Excellence
Department of Defense Fire and Emergency Services Hall of Fame Class of 2013
Appointed Worshipful Master, St. Florian 9-11 Lodge UD, Bowie, MD (First Masonic Lodge for Firefighters in North America)
Elected Worshipful Master, St. Florian 9-11 Lodge No. 238, Bowie, MD
United States Navy Fire & Emergency Services Hall of Fame
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A collection of pins and badges from across the country, and the world, fill Bill Killen’s fire fighting memorabilia collection. Pictured directly below, he also maintains a significant collection of autographs from celebrities and politicians he’s met along the way, including Jimmy Stewart and Walter Cronkite. — Photos by Joel Spears
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Bill said he also also designed a special fire apparatus for Camp David and was awarded numerous times in his role, including an honor received by the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Back in his garage, however, Killen has two of his own special acquisitions; two fire trucks that include a restored 1920 Ford Model-T Obenchain-Boyer Rotary Gear Pumper, complete with gold leaf lettering and a hand crank siren. His collection also includes cabinets filled with memorabilia. “The cap in there with all the gold on it, that’s from the Government of Venezuela,” he said opening one of the window-paned doors. “In 1980 I was asked to assist the Venezuelan Government with airport fire department issues…and for that I was given an award for Meritorious Service by the Venezuelans. Though I didn’t realize it back then, it was the first time the honor had been received outside the country. “Most of the stuff in this cabinet is things unique to my career,” he said scanning various medals. “The Iraqi Civil Defense Minister presented me this award here in a special ceremony. I didn’t go over there, but I did a lot of work helping them reestablish fire protection. It was given to me in 2004, in a presentation at the Fire and Rescue Services Conference in New Orleans.” Other medals, certificates and badges in the collection include those from locations across North America and even Japan. Also in Bill’s collection is a German firefighter uniform, as well as a Native American headdress. Opening a scrapbook on a nearby shelf, he said, “There’s a lot of pluses to this work because I got to meet a lot of dignitaries and famous people. The Apollo 12 backup crew signed this,” he said pointing to a postcard, “and [journalist] Walter Cronkite signed this,” as he pointed to another. “I also got to be good friends with [ABC News journalist] Jules Bergman, and when I went over one day there was a fellow sitting with him. “I said, ‘Good morning, general.’” “He said, ‘Morning! A’lotta people didn’t know I was a general.’ I said, ‘Yes, sir, I know all about your distinguished career…. Would you mind autographing a few of these envelopes for me?” The general was Academy Award-winning actor Jimmy Stewart; best known as “George Bailey” in the 1946 Christmas favorite “It’s a Wonderful Life.” So, how did Bill, Carole and all his memories find their way to Church Hill? In March 2005, he was appointed Fire Chief at Holston Defense, located nearby in Kingsport, having come about the job through a contractor after he retired. “At the time I retired, I was the first vice president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs [IAFC]. In order to be installed as president, you have to be an active fire chief. So, I was in the process of taking a job with a volunteer fire department when they called me about a paid job at Holston Defense,” he said. “I had worked for Wackenhut at Kennedy Space Center because that was a contract job. So, I took the job [at Holston Defense] and came here as a fire chief. That’s what brought me to Tennessee.” In his role as IAFC president, he was the first federal fire chief ever elected. Since second retirement from Holston, Bill has continued part-time consulting in the fire safety industry and co-author a number of fire safety manuals. He also serves as a Mason, who became master of the first Masonic Lodge for firefighters in Maryland. He has also penned several books about Model T fire apparatus and said he still enjoys being in Church Hill, which is close to his birthplace.
In addition to his various roles, Bill also serves as a Mason, who became master of the first Masonic Lodge for firefighters in Maryland. Here he’s seen wearing a Masonic apron given to him in honor of his service. — Photo by Joel Spears “I’m with an hour-and-a-half of where I was born, in Ashe County, North Carolina,” he said, “But I like it here, so my wife and I stayed.” The life of a retired firefighter isn’t exactly quiet for Bill. He continues to serve in various appointments and on committees. His writing also keeps him busy, and in the time that’s left he further organizes his home full of memories. “A lot of school children come to tour the collection, and each one goes away with a bag filled with fire safety information, a book, and some other items,” he said. All that nostalgia isn’t open to the public, but Bill likes to share his stories. And, if you ask, he might just let you sit in the Model T, which can sometimes be found at auto shows and other special events. He might event let you take tour of his museum. Killen’s pride in his career and experiences have taken him on a long journey, both far and wide, and while life is a little more suburban these days, “It was a unique adventure,” he said with all certainty.
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Team 4264: The Fellowship of the Springs, poses with their robot in the practice area. The team won a first place image award for its creative costumes and “castle” home base at the Sixth Annual Smoky Mountain Regional of FIRST Robotics Competition last spring. — Photo by Jim Beller
Don’t tell kids in Hawkins County they can’t compete on technology’s world stage: they already do.
FIRST
Last spring, Cherokee High School’s FIRST Robotics team earned a trip to the World Championship Competition in St. Louis after finishing as second finalists at the Sixth Annual Smoky Mountain Regional of FIRST Robotics Competition in Knoxville. “We made it to the finals to World in our division,” said Jeff Hobbs,
Cherokee STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) teacher and FRC coach. “It got us on the map as far as community-wise.” FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition (FRC) “was founded in 1989 to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology,” according to FIRST Robotics’ website, firstinspires.org. “The mission of FIRST is to inspire young people to be science
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the Regionals, then the World and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership.” “Really, they’ll get more in this than they ever would in class,” Hobbs said. “It’s just the sheer volume of time together. Each kid would put hundreds of hours into it. We started logging time and our team captain
had close to 300 hours. There’s preseason stuff, postseason stuff that we’re doing. “It’s not just people that build stuff. We’ve got a finance department. We’ve got marketing that’s kind of our artistic people that design banners and flags,” Hobbs said. “We go and seek out sponsors. It takes $5,000 just to enter the competition and $1,500 to a couple grand to build the robot.” In the 2016 season, the competition was called FIRST Stronghold. In it, two alliances of three robots were on a quest to breach their opponents’ fortifications, weaken their tower with boulders, and capture the opposing tower, according to firstinspires.org. continued on page 35
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Erin Forgety and Luke Morgan repair the robot (above) then return it to the arena (right) during the Sixth Annual Smoky Mountain Regional last spring. — Photos by Jim Beller
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Erin Forgety, Raiden Evans, and James Mullins at the robot controls while Luke Morgan directs from the other end of the battlefield. — Photos by Jim Beller continued from page 33
Robots scored points by breaching opponents’ defenses and scoring boulders through goals in the opposing tower. During the final 20 seconds, robots could surround and scale the opposing tower to capture it. Team 4264, Cherokee, nicknamed themselves “The Fellowship of the Springs” to play on the “Lord of the Rings” theme of the 2016 competition. The team earned an image award for its creative faux armor costuming and castle pit design. “There’s a number of different awards you can get. You try to narrow it down to what you think you can go for,” Hobbs said. “There’s a lot here the kids can learn from, not to mention the $25 million in scholarships. On average, one in three get paid. So it’s a great opportunity. It’s fun. It’s a huge challenge,” he said. “That $25 million is spread out so many different ways. The University of Tennessee might have a couple of scholarships available to kids who are in FIRST each year. “Then you might have, for example Gates Belts. If you just use their belt and a kid writes up an essay on teacher recommendations, I think there’s a $2,000 scholarship for that. You’ve got manufacturers, schools and universities, which have the scholarships. It really depends on your location and availability,” said Hobbs. Last year’s platinum sponsor was Eastman. Gold Level sponsors included TVA, TRW, Liberty Market and Rogersville Water. “It’s pretty awesome how people were coming out of the woodwork to donate to make sure that we got to World, which was great,” Hobbs said. “What we do when we first start up is try to get sponsors, especially corporate sponsors. We’re trying to work on something that another team has done, which is to make a patron handbook. We’re hoping to change the way we do fundraising and get more community people involved,” Hobbs said. continued on page 39
Cherokee’s Robot #4264 jumps a “moat”“Dukes of Hazard” style.
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Thompson-Boling Arena’s floor was divided into the battlefield (on the left and in left inset photo) and massive staging area on the right. An emcee (right inset) pumped up the crowd and participants by waving team banners and providing enthusiastic commentary. — Photos by Jim Beller
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Cherokee’s FIRST Robotics team pose with awards won in the Sixth Annual Smoky Mountain Regional of FIRST Robotics Competition in Knoxville last April. — Photo by Jim Beller continued from page 35
Cherokee’s team will be without its team captain and co-captain from 2016, among the team members who graduated. “We lost a lot of seniors,” Hobbs said. “The team driver, team captain, Bryce Mullins, graduated. The co-captain, Corbin Delph, graduated. The whole art department is gone. We’ve still got one guy left in programming. “Definitely programming is the hardest part. We want to make sure it gets passed on. They started last year. They were freshmen at the time. Those freshmen of last year are further along than any other freshmen are. One of them can at least in part set up the vision system, which is the hardest part of it. Given that, we’ll continue being in a good spot, as far as programming,” Hobbs said. “The build team, that’s our jam anyways. We’re in pretty good shape. We did lose people. We’re down to about 10 vets now. We’ll start a big push to get new people in, so it won’t be a problem to get the numbers again,” said Hobbs, whose FIRST team receives significant assistance from Automotive Technology Teacher Dewey Ferguson. An early organizational meeting was held recently, although what the team will build is still a mystery. “We had a meeting for the veterans for FIRST. We’re trying to make some changes to the applications and stuff like that,” he said. The 2017 competition will be different from last year’s Two Towers theme, as evidenced by this year’s teaser, a short “Futuropolis”-like cartoon announcing the theme: FIRST Steamworks. “It will be a different game,” Hobbs said. “The theme is a steam pump theme this year: ‘Put your goggles on and get ready to fly.’ They never tell you exactly what it is. “Does that mean that we have to do something that flies this year? Now that would be a first. I kind of don’t think so because anything in the air is going to cause a lot of damage when it comes down. There could be
some kind of rock-n-roll, pyrotechnic-type fake steam. It’s hard to tell. That might be part of the arena, but not something we would necessarily have to produce. They don’t tell you what the actual game consists of,” Hobbs said. “Last year, they showed a similar little cartoon and showed the two towers and said, ‘defend your tower.’ So the kids are pretty stoked about steam pump. We’re going to have to figure out how to adapt our brand so that we can be medieval but steam pump, too,” Hobbs said. “The kickoff is officially Jan. 7. We usually do ours in Knoxville. They pipe it in live stream. They usually make a really big deal of it. The first year we were involved in it, they had two presidents, Stephen Colbert, will.i.am, Seth Green, astronauts,” said Hobbs. “Each one says ‘You’re going to do something that’s going to change your life’ and so on. It does get them pumped up. All the way home on the bus, they’re designing robots,” said Hobbs. “From then on, it’s on for six weeks, then it’s tools down, box up the robot and get ready to compete whenever it’s your time. It is not a lot of time. That’s part of it. For adults, we do it. It’s part of life. ‘I gotta get up, go to work. I feel like crap, but here I am. I gotta work harder. I gotta work overtime.’ Kids are used to laying around on the couch. It really pushes them for being prepared for life and college. It’s kind of a culture shock when they get to college and ‘deadline’s tomorrow, like it or not,’” said Hobbs, who has seen how FIRST Robotics benefitted students. “It definitely really raised their work ethic. Some of these kids got scholarships. One got full ride to UT. I think they’re in a lot better place with First than without. It gets them a lot more prepared for college and the workplace,” he said.
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A dozen South Florida high schools competed in the 2015 Solar Go Kart Challenge races at Florida Gulf Coast University. — Photo courtesy of fgcu.edu
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office started trying to find a way for us to be a part of it. They made contact with Cooper Standard and Cooper Standard made a donation that would cover the expenses for us to be able to buy all the materials to be a participant in it,” Couch said. The budget limit is $5,500 for all schools. “It doesn’t matter if you get stuff donated,” Couch said. “That’s what’s pretty neat about it. Whatever you put on the cart, you’re going to have to have a money trail. If you get it donated to you or if you pull it off of something you’ve got at home, you have to count fair market value. When you show up to race, it has to be under that monetary cap.” “They bought the same type go-cart for everybody and drop-shipped them to all the participating high schools,” Hobbs said. Automotive Technology Teacher Dewey Ferguson, a key member of Cherokee’s FIRST Robotics team, is in charge of the solar go cart project. “I’m helping him with it,” Hobbs said.
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rt Cherokee’s out-of-the-box go cart. — Photo by Jim Beller
“We’ve got about 20 kids involved in the project,” said Volunteer Assistant Principal Will Cordell. Leading Volunteer’s students will be Career Technical Education (CTE) teachers Johnathan Barton (automotive), Jason Skelton (technology) and Timothy Thompson (industrial electricity). “Mr. Thompson, our industrial electrician teacher, his class is doing solar panel research and all that stuff,” Cordell said. “With the grant money, we’ve got $2,200 we can spend on the cart, $900 of it has to be on solar panels,” Hobbs said. “We were given an electric motor and everything that’s included with the go-cart. “The rules are we can’t modify the frame or suspension of the cart itself. We can add to it to support the panels, of course,” Hobbs said. “You’ve got to use the tires that are provided,” Couch added. “Every team is using the same engine. You cannot alter the brake system, the shocks or the suspension system. Everybody has the same racing seat
and five-point harness. You’ve got a monetary limit that you can spend on solar panels. The challenge is going to be more on the electrical side.” “The race is in May in Thunder Valley in Bristol,” Hobbs said. “There’s a flat-out race for speed against time. And then there’s an endurance challenge, how long you can push your batteries while you’re pulling energy in.” The endurance course will be four laps of a two-mile road course set up in BMS’s parking lot. Four drivers, who will be chosen like horse jockeys – the lighter, the better – will each drive two miles. The drag race will be held on Thunder Valley’s legendary drag strip. “You can’t change the cart,” Hobbs said. “It’s not like you have an endurance set-up and a speed set-up. You have to go as-is to be able to do both of them. It’ll be cool. A lot of kids are pretty stoked about it.”
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alking the hallways of Volunteer High School, it becomes immediately evident the legacy of creative talent that has stirred within those walls.
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That’s because the talent and imagination that stirred within those students is displayed on those walls. It is not taped to the walls, but is literally on the walls, where students through the years have literally left their mark with several, gloriously-colorful murals that adorn otherwise stark concrete block walls in various hallways and classrooms, turning the mundane into the profound. “It was – is – a great way to dress up the halls,” said Volunteer language arts teacher Carolyn Gibbons. “Terry Osborne was the art teacher who started the project,” said Gibbons. “She is in the Scott County (Va.) system teaching now. She’s been gone since 2010.” A Volunteer student escorting a visitor to the gym recently said she thought the murals were a tradition of senior art students at the school, but Cindy Bennett, VHS art teacher the past three years, said she wasn’t aware of it. One of the murals, a guitar by Shae Caldwell on the wall in the 500s hallway goes back at least 15 years. Caldwell graduated with the Class of 2001. Another one, entitled “Beowulf” signed by Patrick Kappesser and someone named Sam, emblazons the English/100s hallway. Gibbons believes it was completed in 2015. Whether it’s Chad Simpson’s Phoenix rising from fire toward an exit sign, Isaac Jones’ collage of caricatures in “I Am Infinite,” or the colorful study of Kayla Rose’s Mythology Lady (2010), Volunteer’s wall art is creative and varied. Yet another mural over the doorway adjacent to Volunteer’s Little Theater features a large, blank sheet of notebook paper – blue lines and all – a simple but inspired subject matter for a school wall: a blank sheet on what was a blank wall. The school would do well to make it an official tradition and let its art students continue to fill that blank canvas. Because where these walls talk, they say a lot. — By Jim Beller
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The first Civil War Trails marker installed in Hawkins County was added earlier this year near the historic Clay-Kenner house on East Main Street in Rogersville. It recounts the role played by the house -- and its owners -- in the War Between the States. The Civil War Trails marker at the Clay-Kenner house in Rogersville tells the stories of the Bynum and Clay families and their connection to the Civil War.
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The former Lyons Store and Post Office building along East Main Street in Surgoinsville stands today, although it is not open to the public. In 1862, the building was the center of efforts to recruit a company of Confederate cavalry.
Hawkins County’s historic
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ROGERSVILLE -- The first two of four planned Civil War Trail markers planned for installation in Hawkins County had been installed near the ClayKenner House on East Main in Rogersville and in Surgoinsville’s Riverfront Park when this article was written in mid-September. Others were scheduled to be installed on the Depot Street side of the Hawkins Co. Courthouse in Rogersville and at the new Rogersville Park on West Bear Hollow Road near the Thomas Amis Historic Site in time for Rogersville’s annual Heritage Days festival in October. Nancy Barker, executive director of the Rogersville/Hawkins Co. Chamber of Commerce, said the new markers are expected to give residents – and tourists alike – greater understanding of Hawkins County’s connection to the American Civil War.
Clay-Kenner House
The marker at the Clay-Kenner House, which commemorates the role the house and its residents played in the Civil War, was installed adjacent to
the parking lot shared by the antebellum home, the H.B. Stamps Memorial Library and the Rogersville Senior Center. The new Rogersville Civil War Trail marker, which includes historical photographs, is entitled “Clay-Kenner House” and bears the subtitle “Murder in the Streets.” It explains that John G. Bynum and his wife, Nancy, owned the ClayKenner House during the War. Bynum, a Confederate sympathizer, helped raise the first Confederate military unit (The Hawkins Boys) here in 1861. Bynum was later implicated in the so-called “Byrd Raid” in which Confederate sympathizers killed William K. Byrd, a Union sympathizer, in the Eidson area of the county in December 1861. Bad blood between Hawkins County Confederate and Union sympathizers simmered throughout the war, occasionally erupting in violence. In 1862, John G. Bynum was murdered by Union sympathizer John D. Riley in front of the Bank of Tennessee (now the Masonic Temple), according to the new marker, which notes that Riley fired a shotgun continued on page 55
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A Civil War Trails marker installed in August in Surgoinsville’s Riverfront Park recalls the town’s connection to the war.
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blast into Bynum’s chest and that Bynum fired a pistol at Riley as he fell from his horse. Bynum died at the scene, but Riley was not arrested, the marker notes. Three years after John Bynum’s death, Nancy Bynum married Confederate Capt. Henry Boyle Clay, grandson of famous Kentucky U.S. Senator Henry Clay. Capt. Clay, a staff officer, was with Confederate General John Hunt Morgan when Morgan was killed in Greeneville by Union Army soldiers from a Tennessee unit. Although the marker doesn’t point it out, some of those soldiers in the Union Army unit that killed Morgan and captured his staff likely were from Hawkins County. The marker notes that Clay was forced to identify Morgan’s body and cried out: “You have just killed the best man in the Confederacy.” The house is called the Clay-Kenner house today because it was long occupied by members of the Kenner family in the years after the Civil War. It currently is owned by Hawkins County.
Surgoinsville Civil War Marker
The new Civil War Trails marker on the banks of the Holston River in Surgoinsville’s Riverfront Park was placed in August and recalls Surgoinsville’s role in Civil War fighting in Hawkins County. The marker specifically mentions the Battle of Big Creek, which took place a few miles west of the town. The marker also notes that the Holston River, which flows by Surgoinsville, was a contested transportation route during the Civil War. “Hawkins County residents mostly voted against secession, but pockets of Confederate support existed,” the marker says. “The nearby Lyons Store and post office, the commercial hub of Surgoinsville, became a focus of activity for Confederate supporters. On May 21, 1862, Clinton G. Lyons and Frank L. Phipps organized Company A of the 12th Tennessee
Cavalry Battalion (CSA) there. Phipps was elected captain, while Lyons, the son of the store’s Pennsylvania-born owner, William Lyons, was first elected lieutenant and later captain. “The next month, when Confederate General Kirby Smith planned to invade Kentucky, he wrote: ‘I think I shall order Colonel (James W.) Starnes to scout in Hawkins and Hancock (Counties) … if Capt. Phipps’ company from Hawkins County can be found … they could act as guides for him’.” The Lyons Store building still stands on what is now East Main Street in Surgoinsville, although it is not open to the public. The marker also points out that Civil War fighting drew close to Surgoinsville on Nov. 6, 1863, when Confederates cavalry units under the overall command of General William E. “Grumble” Jones surprised and defeated parts of two Union regiments (the 7th Ohio Cavalry and the 2nd East Tennessee Mounted Infantry) at Big Creek a few miles south of town. Although the marker does not reference it, the Union Army enlisted men captured in the Confederate victory at Big Creek were sent to the notorious Andersonville prison camp in Georgia, where many died of disease and privation. Clinton Lyons, one of the two organizers of the Surgoinsville Confederate cavalry company, survived the war “and returned home to a county that remained divided for many years thereafter.” The Tennessee Civil War Trails Program is part of a five-state trails system that encourages visitors to explore both well-known and lessfamiliar sites associated with events of the Civil War. Tennessee has more than 300 markers, and its trails guide is the most requested of the five states, which also include Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina.
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— Introduction — When this collection of legends, first hand accounts and unsolved mysteries was originally published in 2007, it was the culmination of years of hard work by writers who passed through the halls of The Rogersville Review. Haunts, Haints and Other Mysterious Tales of Hawkins County was the brainchild of Mike Williams, then sports editor and a fellow enthusiast of the supernatural. He and I shared a fascination with things otherworldly and, as he said in the 2007 introduction, “Hawkins County is replete with fascinating tales of the beyond and bizarre mysteries left unsolved.” Among this tapestry, woven into countless ghostly tales, many threads have attached themselves to the homes, buildings, cemeteries, and forests of Hawkins County. Unfortunately, as with all things, time also fades memories, especially those handed down through oral tradition. Though I can only speak singularly, the passage of time is a primary reason for writing and reproducing this book—to keep those legends alive, or at least a variation. As we all know, a place of many legends bears many tellings, each one a little different than the one before, and these are ours as they were told to us. It’s the same as told by Alberto Manguel, in his book The Library at Night, “At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.” We have given these “ghosts” a voice to be heard through the ages. It’s been almost a decade since “Haunts” first hit local bookshelves and while only a handful of stories fill these pages, The Rogersville Review office still receives regular correspondence from enthusiasts who ask, “Where can I get that ghost book?” Well, it’s coming soon to a local haunt near you. Despite technology, it’s still those bumps in the night that keep our imaginations fresh and our hearts racing to see what lies beneath that veil of fog, under our bed at night, or in that darkened closet. We still hope, when you pick up “Haunts, Haints and Mysterious Tales,” that it grabs you and draws you in time and again, much like those specters you’re thinking of right now. Joel Spears
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Light at the
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around its walls. The tunnel itself is in a state of disrepair. Cracked cement bears spray-painted remnants of years of graffiti, almost creating an art object in the midst of solitude. Even the road that passes through Sensabaugh Tunnel is used only by locals, and not very often. Some say the road is just too narrow, but others still get a chill when they ride through the passage. Perhaps the most notorious thing about the tunnel isn’t the cold, damp breath that caresses your ears when you’re inside the tunnel, nor the whispers of unseen voices that bounce from the concrete walls, but the story of a murder that occurred there many years ago. No one remembers exactly when nor how the murder took place, but several versions have been concocted over the years. All accounts involve an infant. One version says that many years ago, a homeless man
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By all accounts, Sensabaugh Hollow is a place of tragedy from long ago and it has manifested itself into what is recognized as one of the wandered into the hollow from the railroad and came to the home of a region’s scariest locations. prominent Hawkins County family named Sensabaugh, who welcomed Other than hearing the cries of victims, legend has it that if you drive him into their home. into the tunnel and cut off the ignition your car will not restart, that is, However, the man overstayed his welcome and began to steal the until the ghosts are finished haunting you. Reports of car door latches family jewels. being pried open, unlocked doors opening and bright lights inspecting Mr. Sensabaugh had had enough of the thief and went for his gun, automobiles from high up in the tunnel have spooked curious visitors to but when Sensabaugh grabbed his pistol the unwanted guest grabbed the location for years. Others claim you can hear Baby Sensabaugh. Using the child as a shield, the man fled the home and footsteps echoing in the tunnel, and see a ghostly figure approaching in entered the tunnel. the rearview mirror. As legend has it, he didn’t know what to do with the baby, so he Parents who have also taken their small children walking through drowned it in the stream that runs through the passage. the tunnel have claimed something tried to grab the child away from them Today, the house still stands near the western entrance of and pull it into the creek. Sensabaugh Tunnel, and the stream still flows deep and murky through a What really goes on in Sensabaugh Tunnel, if anything, we might concrete trench inside. never know. Visitors claim to hear the cries of a child echoing through the tunnel, Does Mr. Sensabaugh and his family haunt the sleepy little hollow, or as well as the cries of a woman, perhaps the mother looking for her infant. is it just another old urban legend? Who knows. Next time you visit the The other two versions do not involve an unwelcome guest. tunnel just ask. The whispers will tell you. According to one story, Sensabaugh himself went crazy and murdered his family, including a newborn, and threw their bodies into This story originally appeared in the the tunnel creek. November 1/2, 2003 edition of the The Rogersville Review. Yet another story simply states a pregnant woman was kidnapped and murdered in the tunnel.
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Cracked cement bears spray-painted remnants of years of graffiti, almost creating art from solitude. — Photo by Joel Spears.
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The sun on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 10, illuminated a spider web in a tree off Tennessee Highway 70 North in the Striggersville community of Hawkins County. — Photo by Bill Jones
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