Year: 2021

Growing up on the Cumberland Plateau, I have so many great memories of the adventures that I had as a kid. I had a large area that was owned by family and friends that I […]

Forrest Fires, are one of the worst enemies to conservation that exists in our nation toady. In just the last few years forest fires, whether intentionally set or caused by nature, has ravaged millions of […]

Inventor of The Machine Gun. On a hot summer day in 1914 a bullet from a Browning automatic pistol held in the hand of a crazy Serbian snuffed out the life of an Austrian Archduke, […]

There is joy in doing the right thing always. Thee is sorrow always in doing the wrong thing. The joy or sorrow may not follow immediately, but it will surely follow. There is not a […]

This world is largely what we make it. Destiny, environment, hereditary tendency. These things sink into insignificance beneath the power of our wills and the possibilities within our souls. The universe, with all it’s riches […]

Never visit someone who is not family just before bed time or before they get out of bed in the morning. Never, stop someone who appears in a hurry. Never, when you see two people […]

Comes the Tang of autumn, and the area’s best hiking and outdoor weather is upon us. To some of us the long for clean crisp area of the mountains that surround Tennessee, the urge to […]

The diet of a dog (hunting/house) has much to do with the condition of their teeth. Just like us humans. When the teeth are not in good condition, the diet should be changed so that […]

Much depends on the Ideas of Life’s purpose. Whether a man’s life in this world is successful or not depends on the idea which is held of the purpose for which life is given. If […]

In the Upper Cumberland and probably many other places, there is a sweetness that can be found in the wild that is very important to the country folk. Here is a letter that was received […]