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Memorial Day weekend kicks off summer season
Coming up over the next few days, you have choices from Abingdon to Big Stone Gap, and from Marion to Natural Tunnel State Park, Salem and The Breaks.
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The Book Worm: The Other Side of Normal
You’d like to think you’re a normal person. You shop for clothes where others shop. You like singing along with the radio (whether you do it well or not), watching TV, hanging with friends, playing with pets, hobbies and being with family. One hundred percent, no-two-ways-about-it … normal.
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Double Take: Lee & J.J. MacFadden/Book Review – Cat Calls
Author Jeanne Adlon became New York City’s first round-the-clock cat sitter more than 35 years ago. “Cat Calls,” by Jeanne Adlon and Susan Logan, relates some of Adlon’s cat sitting stories and also offers advice on important issues for people who have or want to have cats.
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Pioneers in Paradise: Big explosion in 1947 was one of Bristol's worst disasters
On the cold morning of Feb. 26, 1947, Alan Cheatham, then about 9 years old, was sent from his home at 108 1st High Street to the Robinette Service Station for a jug of kerosene. His aunts, Ruby Osborne and Nell Lowery, with whom he was living at the time, used oil lamps as there was no electrical service on that street at that time.
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Donna Summer, disco queen, dead at age 63
Disco queen Donna Summer has died, a family spokesperson told the Associated Press. She was 63.
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Ramps: All you can eat
You can eat ramps raw — or with potatoes — at this Sunday's Ramp Festival, estimated to draw as many as 5,000 people to the Mount Rogers Fire Hall, just off U.S. 58, in Whitetop, Va.
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Tennis Anyone?
On the road, playing music, Dale Jett follows much in the footsteps of his mother, Janette Carter, the late, great founder of the Carter Fold.
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Blood, Sweat and Tears
Babe Ruth built baseball’s New York Yankees. Bach, Beethoven and Mozart composed masterpieces.
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Center Stage: 'My show, it's ramshackle'
Marty Stuart calls him "Cuzzin' Kenny." Stuart's fans know him as Kenny Vaughan, the country singer's lead guitarist in his band the Fabulous Superlatives.
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Short Takes
New York and bluegrass fit like hip-hop and honky-tonk. Right? Not quite. Take upstate New York’s Gibson Brothers. Set to juice up Jonesborough’s Bluegrass Series on May 19 at the Visitor’s Center in Jonesborough, Tenn., the now-veterans of bluegrass have registered 10 albums in the genre.
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Preview of Melissa For Hire: Dairy Farmer
In Thursday's edition of Melissa For Hire at 7 p.m., Melissa attempts to make it as a dairy farmer.
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A Jewel of a mom
Mother’s Day was made for women like Jewel Bell. Then again, perhaps rare are the women like Bell. Character leaps from her eyes like a fishing line cast. Words spoken, center of the sun smile given. Then it’s impossible to not get hooked on the woman who’s the friend you’ve never met.
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Megadeth radiates floor-rumbling heavy metal rock
Four atomic bombs dropped in on Knoxville’s historic Tennessee Theatre Tuesday night.
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Calendar: Learn something new
A wide variety of classes are being taught across the region.
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The Book Worm: You Are What You Wear
It’s an old joke, but so true: you haven’t got a thing to wear.
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Double Take: Lee & J.J. MacFadden/Book Review – Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
“Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff for Moms,” by Kristine Carlson, is made up of 100 short chapters.
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Pioneers in Paradise: John Isaac Cox: A governor from Bristol
In her long history, Bristol has been home to many persons of varying degrees of fame but has only sent forth one state governor. This was John Isaac Cox who became governor of Tennessee March 21, 1905.
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Buffalo Mountain Park Days set for next weekend
Johnson City Parks and Recreation along with Friends of Nature will host Buffalo Mountain Park Days May 18-20.
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Beyblade Battle Series slated for Legion Rec
Legion Recreation Center, 111 Legion St., will host a Beyblade Battle Series on Thursdays this month (May 17, 24, and 31) at 6 p.m.
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Border Bash to host Sam Lewis & Kenny Vaughn
Set in Historic Downtown Bristol, Border Bash continues on May 18 in the 800 block of State Street.
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Melissa For Hire: Barter Theatre Actress
In this edition of Melissa For Hire, Melissa picks up a puppet and tries her hand as an actress at the Barter Theater in Abingdon.
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Elton John to perform at Freedom Hall
According to a Johnson City spokesperson, Elton John will perform at Freedom Hall on Sunday, September 16.
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Damascus rolls out the trail for hikers
This year, Trail Days starts on Saturday, May 12, with the Town-Wide Yard Sale, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., followed by the Miss Appalachian Trail Days Pageant at Rhea Valley Elementary School, for infants to 18-year-old girls, starting at 5 p.m.
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Tennis Anyone?
I have spent only a few days here and there and only one night in my personal treks on the Appalachian Trail. So, honestly having covered hardly more than a dozen continuous miles of the 2,181-mile-long trail, that really doesn't entitle me to a nickname.
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Center Stage: 'Billings to Broadway'
Let’s take a Yankee doodle stroll through American history. Aboard music.
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