by Amanda E. West | Jun 11, 2026 | Shelbyville, Stories
WHEN PEYTON Allison was a little girl, she lined up her Bratz dolls and imagined she was their teacher. Other times, she talked her little brother, Alex, into pretending he was one of her students. Others gravitated to Peyton’s bubbly personality. She made friends...
by Amanda E. West | Jun 11, 2026 | Shelbyville, Stories
“WORK HARD, play hard, pray hard” is the motto of the White family, who own White Associates LLC, which opened at 100 L. Fisher Rd. in 2000. What began as two separate businesses opened the door for three generations of Whites to work together. Lavory White...
by Amanda E. West | Jun 11, 2026 | Cover, Shelbyville
“DO YOU want fries with that?” was a question Mike and Holly Rittenberry frequently asked customers while working at the McDonald’s on Madison Street during the early 1980s. What began as a friendship escalated into a marriage that has withstood the test of time — 40...
by Amanda E. West | Jun 11, 2026 | Feature, Shelbyville
“When your pawpaw, Willie B. Davis, was younger, he used to make moonshine.” Michelle leaned closer, looking puzzled. “Are you serious, Nanny?” “Back in them days, ‘fore he worked at the highway department here in Bedford County, your pawpaw was what they used to call...
by Amanda E. West | Jun 11, 2026 | Feature, Shelbyville
TOWERING TREES hugged both sides of the narrow driveway as gravel crunched beneath the tires of my minivan. Each time I traveled Old Nashville Dirt Road, I had admired this two-story farmhouse with its wraparound porch and brick chimney poking through the center of...
