by Amanda E. West | Feb 24, 2025 | Shelbyville, Shelbyville-Cover
The year was 1965, and 22-year-old Leonard “Junior” Donegan had just returned home from serving in the United States Air Force. He smoothed back his dark hair to set the pomade and took one last glance at his reflection in the mirror. Though his brother, Terry, had...
by Tina Neeley | Jan 13, 2024 | Shelbyville, Shelbyville-Cover
FORTY YEARS ago, Ed and Joan Gray signed up for the journey of a lifetime. From navigating the early challenges of blending families to exploring the world of education and later venturing on global travels, the Grays have covered the immeasurable territory of their...
by Tina Neeley | Jan 1, 2022 | Shelbyville, Shelbyville-Cover
IT’S NEVER too late to start fresh by promoting healthy living through commitment to growing a business that feeds and blesses the body. Blűhen Farms Aquaponics’ partners Steve and Carol Riggs and Rich Slattery, Carol’s brother, operate a Shelbyville greenhouse...
by Clinton | Nov 1, 2021 | Shelbyville, Shelbyville-Cover
BEDFORD COUNTY native Jon Price heard on the radio about people playing baseball like it was played in the 1800s and he was intrigued. He made the trip to Smyrna to see his first game and decided then and there that he wanted to play vintage baseball when he could...
by Clinton | Oct 1, 2021 | Shelbyville, Shelbyville-Cover
BY JADA ROBISON // Taha and Malika Muhammed lived in Kirkuk, the heart of the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq in the 1950s, and after escaping the heinous regime of Saddam Hussein, they landed in Shelbyville, Tennessee. This is their story. In 1958 the English...
by Clinton | Oct 1, 2021 | Shelbyville, Shelbyville-Cover
BY DONNA COPELAND // The image of a seed cracking open in or- der to sprout is a powerful image for Tyler Campbell; it brings to mind how people feel in their darkest moments—like they are breaking apart. He likes to remind them that if the seed doesn’t break...
