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Wilderness Road State Park’s biggest event is this weekend

BY JORDAN BROOKS jordan.brooks@middlesboronews.com By May of 1775 men, women and children headed west, deep into the harsh ...

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Sam Watkins’ Memoirs tell the real story of the Civil War

BY BILL CAREY Tennessee History for Kids If you want to know what it was really like to ...

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Tennessee’s Coal Creek War tested 13th Amendment

BY BILL CAREY Tennessee History for Kids Editor’s note: This is second in a series of columns about ...

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Micajah and Wiley Harpe: Part 4

BY JADON GIBSON Contributing writer The Harpes were considered as devils on the paths in early America. They ...

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Big Bill Hardin and the colony

BY JADON GIBSON Contributing writer William “Big Bill” Hardin was a noted pioneer and Indian fighter. The Indians ...

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Regatta will wind through unspoiled land – proceeds help with improving access to the Powell River for the public

BY KEITH ROYSDON The Daily Yonder The Powell River is the second-largest un-dammed river in Tennessee and on ...

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LMU Players to present ‘Steel Magnolias’

NEWS RELEASE LMU The Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) Paul V. Hamilton School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences ...

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Micajah and Wiley Harpe: Part 3

By: Jadon Gibson Word about the murderous Micajah and Wiley Harpe was passing swiftly throughout the borderland. Captain ...

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The murdering Harpes: Part II

BY JADON GIBSON Contributing columnist It was less than 50 years after Dr. Thomas Walker documented the discovery ...

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Moonshine: From no business to big business; Once illegal, Appalchia’s “likker” is now government-sanctioned booze

BY KEITH ROYSDON For The Daily Yonder Moonshine has always been the stuff of Appalachian legends. For some, ...

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