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RE: Covering the Klan

I was working for Newsline, a now defunct weekly newspaper in Giles county, when a number of Klan and associated Neo Nazi groups and others decended upon Pulaski to protest MLK day in January of 1989. I hadn't been working form long and so I decided to cover it from beginning to end, starting with some sincere young men who met at the wrong place and the wrong time. We talked, I took notes. They were concerned that they get fair and impartial coverage. I was there to give fair and impartial cove… Continue

Added by Donna Reagan on July 30, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

An old wooden bucket.

After my six month's stint as a volunteer at Beauty for Ashes, I stayed with a woman and her daughter out in a rural area. She didn't have running water and the bathroom was about 30 feet out back, next to the woods. Each Saturday we walked down the road, wagon and plastic milk containers in tow, to her mother's cabin where we got water at the kitchen sink. I was astonished to see that in spite of the fact that her mother had a sink with running water, she always kept water in an old wooden buck… Continue

Added by Donna Reagan on July 22, 2009 at 3:44pm — No Comments

SIMPLE TOOLS FOR COMPLEX ART

Jen Stark uses construction paper and Exacto knife to create remarkable sculptures. And this one.

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Added by Polly on July 1, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

Tech I

Tech I was hell, but I got through it. Part of Tech I (a.k.a. the class from hell) was having to do TennShare Learn and Discover. I felt it was so much extra work that didn't mean a whole lot but when you do everything you're supposed to do and you don't get penalized for a less than stellar feeling about the experience, then you get an "A" on that particular assignment. It all counts and so I'm glad for that. What I learned about myself in Tech I is that my knowledge of the net is Swiss cheese.… Continue

Added by Donna Reagan on June 25, 2009 at 3:56pm — No Comments

WORD + EZ KEYS +TEXT ALOUD +POWERPOINT +MIKOGO +SKYPE =

How Glenda Watson Hyatt does presentations in spite several handicaps -

She presented, from her home in Canada, to an audience, in Texas, that included people who are visio… Continue

Added by Polly on June 24, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

Cleaning up a creek

There is a little community out from Pall Mall called "Rottensfork." There wasn't much there in the 70s--just a little church and a few houses. There is a creek that runs behind the church a ways and it was pretty bad. My then fiance' and I cleaned up about 50 feet of it one day and then we laid in some large rocks to make a swift running channel so that the creek could keep itself cleaned out. It was a lot of work but when we went back years later that stretch of creek looked very clean and ver… Continue

Added by Donna Reagan on June 21, 2009 at 7:37pm — No Comments

Blogging

The blog feature being here, I've been using it to blog reflections of people and places I've known. It's the Tennessee History and photo features from our week on TNShare--brings back people and places from long ago. Down from the mountain, towards Pall Mall, there is a place in the Wolf River that you can wade through hip deep water; on the other side is a tunnel. That tunnel goes through a hill and comes out at a remote place beside a gentle stream. At least, it was remote back in the seventi… Continue

Added by Donna Reagan on June 20, 2009 at 11:58pm — No Comments

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Added by Karen Schall on June 19, 2009 at 1:38pm — No Comments

Re: Reading

I had never known anyone who could not read. My earliest memories of both my grandfathers are of them reading the newspaper. My grandmothers always read and my maternal grandmother was the one who read to me the most. She would read "Peter Rabbit" to me as many times in a row as I asked--and it could be ten! I was my favorite and I was learning the story by heart so I wanted to hear her read it. Poor Granny--she had such patience with me! Being around a reading people and a reading family, it wa… Continue

Added by Donna Reagan on June 18, 2009 at 11:38am — No Comments

MILKY WAY AT A TEXAS PARTY

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

After clicking on the white triangle to start the video, it will take a few seconds for the video to load. Watch the lower left corner of the video. William Castleman shot this video of the night sky in Fort Davis, TX April 21-22, 2009.… Continue

Added by Polly on June 17, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

Been Busy

I've been busy working on class projects. I've been reading a bit of my e-book. That's been a change for me. Keeping busy with summer stuff and everyone being home. Continue

Added by Rhonda Harris on June 16, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Mountain Mama Cooking

My mother-in-law was always cooking. There was always a pot of pinto beans with fatty ham on the stove and always cornbread for noon dinner and supper but biscuits for breakfast. She fried a lot and her green beans were cooked to within an inch of their life and just this side of fried in the seasoning grease she always used. It was at her table that I was introduced to the concept of always having some kind of grease added to whatever was cooked. Usually it was bacon or sausage dripppings but i… Continue

Added by Donna Reagan on June 16, 2009 at 6:09am — No Comments

Hush puppies with Karo syrup

Aunt Judy moved to Florida when she was young and eventually met and married Uncle Chuck who was from Georgia. We went to Florida every year and when we did we always visited with them. The year I was seven, Aunt Judy made a wonderful fried fish dinner of fresh caught red snapper and with it she served veggies and, of course, hush puppies. Being from Ohio, we had never seen nor heard of hush puppies so Aunt Judy decided to make them in a form we could understand--she fried them flat, like pancak… Continue

Added by Donna Reagan on June 15, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Moonshine still and a boy named Jake.

When I first got to the mission it was a Sunday morning, the first of February. My mom and dad took one look at the mission and said I didn't have to stay. There was over a week's worth of dirty dishes and pots and pans in the kitchen, there were people from the countryside sitting around the living room lookning miserable and the day, being gray and dank anyway, it was not the best foot forward for a mission. There was also the strong smell of wood smoke where someone had not opened the damper… Continue

Added by Donna Reagan on June 14, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Aunt Docia

"Aunt Docia" was probably 74 or 75 when I met her. She lived in a little community south of Jamestown, just off the highway. I'm not sure of the name right now, but the community of homes was situated on a large circular road. Some of them were really old log cabins. Everyone knew Aunt Docia and called her that. She was known as a "Granny Woman." In the old days she was the one who knew how to help with "babies and birthin.'" She lived in a small gray board house with an ancient unpainted picket… Continue

Added by Donna Reagan on June 13, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Techified in Tennessee and "we grow too soon old and too late smart."

NPL's techies put together an ongoing program that is much like this one. I've enjoyed doing the exercises in the past and we were given the opportunity to do much of it during "down'-time" at work. Some of us signed up for the TennShare program when it first came out but, really, there wasn't time to do both and we were kind of re-inventing the wheel with some of the work. It is good to know what is out there, though, such as in "All Things Tennessee." We get kids and adults who are looking for… Continue

Added by Donna Reagan on June 13, 2009 at 6:24pm — No Comments

Technology and age

Jeannette Held, my mentor, was much older than I when she began using the computer. At nearly 80 years of age she neither looked nor acted like a proper 80 year old. She was so very active and she returned to Martin Methodist College to teach part time in the English department. Ten years ago she came into the library and asked me to do a net search of a paragraph which a student had turned in as their own work. It wasn't but a few minutes until I found the paragraph on the web. Just because she… Continue

Added by Donna Reagan on June 11, 2009 at 4:53pm — No Comments

Dewey Decimal Classification

Which classification are you?

Sally Robertson's Dewey Decimal Section:
558 Earth sciences of South America
Sally Robertson = 91225852580954 = 912+258+525

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Added by Sally Robertson on June 11, 2009 at 10:04am — No Comments

FIREWORKS?

They are a spectrographic visualisation of sound in three dimensions by Paul Prudence. The explanation is here. A full set of the large images are… Continue

Added by Polly on June 10, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

One last bookshelf

This was supposed to be a 9-book Library Thing widget, but the widget won't seem to embed in this site and/or on this computer. So here are my nine book choices: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath; Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale; Chicken Cheeks by Michael Ian Black; Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry by Scott Reynolds Nelson; Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tany… Continue

Added by Susan Penn on June 7, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

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