Visiting Knoxville’s historic Mabry-Hazen House
By Hayden Evans

Including in one’s itinerary a visit to the historic and majestic ante-bellum Mabry-Hazen House in Knoxville should be interesting for fans attending athletic events at the University of Tennessee or vacationers to Dollywood, Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountains ... Read More

When a Turkey Shoot Isn't
By Valerie Laprad

"Well, I didn't know," I proclaimed in my own defense to a roomful of incredulous onlookers, staring at me in awe. All activity in the office came to an instant and silent stop, until they exploded in laughter. The next time I have an epiphany in public, I plan to keep it to myself. Really, how serious a social faux paus was it to think that they actually shoot turkeys at a turkey shoot? ... Read More

Touring Oak Ridge -- the secret city of World War II
By Hayden Evans

Imagine a city of 75,000 behind a security fence in East Tennessee so cloaked in secrecy that its workers and other inhabitants did not know what was being produced in three manufacturing facilities of unprecedented scope of the U. S. Government. The creation of the secret city of Oak Ridge began in 1942 as a major site of the “Manhattan Project,” which was the code name for the massive wartime effort that produced the world’s first atomic weapons ... Read More

TTU student featured in Bell Witch film
By Tracey Lefevre

Tennessee Tech University senior Todd Geren is the type of person who credits others for the positive influence they've had in his life, and he looks for opportunities to have that same kind of impact on others ... Read More