A family learns about grace from a death row prisoner
…case winds its way to his execution by lethal injection on December 2, 2009. Johnson was convicted of killing three people, one a 12-year-boy, after robbing a convenience store in…
Book Excerpt: Walk Through Fire
…be traced back to what happened in Waverly. The Waverly Train Disaster has been labeled the “high-water mark of hazardous materials incidents in the United States” (Firehouse, 2003), one that…
A new illustrated history covers 70 years of Sun Records
The stories and photos are almost as good as the music they document in the handsome new book The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Illustrated Story of Sun Records…
I would have those days again if I could
We came there in the spring of 1963. Our house stood alone in the newly subdivided farmlands south of Nashville. Its only companions were scattered foundations representing the future homes…
The mountains in winter were a revelation as we climbed
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This essay originally appeared on February 1, 2019. *** Back in the 1980s, while I was a member of the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association,…
We pushed it way too far but miraculously escaped with our lives
…began when the 2-33rd Squadron, a neatly woven fraternity of veteran pilots, trusted mechanics, and 20-something medics, was alerted for duty. We were called up to support coalition forces in…
