by Teresa James | Jul 9, 2026 | Fayetteville, Feature
FOR 50 years, war veteran Joe Pendergrass did not speak of his time in Vietnam. The horrors of war were too difficult to dwell on. Most people didn’t want to hear about it anyway. Vietnam was perceived as a different kind of war back then. Pendergrass enlisted in the...
by Teresa James | Jul 9, 2026 | Fayetteville, Feature
AN ALARMING 2023 report by the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) listed Tennessee’s Veteran suicide rate as being significantly higher than both the national Veteran suicide rate and the national general population suicide rate. Veteran Stuart Rudy is doing...
by Becca Roberts | Jun 11, 2026 | Fayetteville, Feature
THE LITTLE Farm, located at 228 McDougal Rd. in Fayetteville, runs on family. Tom and Lindsay Monks have cultivated a beautiful space for farming and family connection on the land that Tom’s father, Tommy Monks, farmed before him. His father still helps out running...
by Becca Roberts | Jun 11, 2026 | Fayetteville, Feature
SOPHIE BUCK let the small paintbrush glide across the tiny palette, blending lush green hues with turquoise blues to capture the Cantabrian Sea on a perfect Easter morning in Spain. Sophie, one of four homeschooled children raised in Fayetteville, had embarked on an...
by Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney | May 14, 2026 | Fayetteville, Feature
THUMPER PIGG will tell you up front: “I’m old and hard of hearing.” He says it with a grin — the kind that signals both humor and humility. He was, as he puts it, “raised in a shop with my dad,” and has been “around this sort of thing all my life.” Sawdust, clamps,...
by Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney | May 14, 2026 | Fayetteville, Feature
AFTER TWO decades in Florida education and athletics, a third-generation leader steps into his family’s oil business with gratitude and growth in mind. Small & Small Oil began in 1947, when Phillip Small’s grandfather, Phillip Small Sr., worked for Sinclair as a...
