‘A Beacon of What Is’
…Loudon County. But she grew up in Oak Ridge, where her father worked for the uranium enrichment plant. Green writes with sensitivity about the plant workers’ lives, about the families…
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“Moving to Tennessee, 1944”
Moving to Tennessee, 1944 after Mary Morris Goodbye to cousins, grandparents, coal tipple and craggy mountains, smoke from smoldering slag heaps. We have packed the car with pillows, blankets,…
A Living Pulse
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This review originally appeared on June 27, 2023. *** Denton Loving’s Tamp The Cumberland Gap farmland where Denton Loving lives suffuses the atmosphere of his…
“Hawk Says Finally”
Hawk Says Finally Once in the gap between hills Hawk hovered against hard blue sky for so long — no twitch no strain each muscle twining with wind red tail…
The Life of Riley
The rough-looking man who first plucked me from a basket would later say those who believe dogs have no soul only say that because they lack one of their own….
This Old House
For 25 years she held our family. Mr. McGaw, himself a 50-year resident, handed over the keys all those years ago with the ceremony befitting a white-haired university historian. He…
