by Amanda West | Sep 13, 2024 | Stories
VANESSA YENTZ is fulfilling a legacy. It isn’t just for herself or for her husband, Eric, but for their children, grandchildren, and everyone who comes in contact with the Yentz Family Farm. Vanessa is a mom to Corrinn and Taylor and a grandmother to Lillie. For...
by Amanda West | Sep 13, 2024 | Cover
SINCE THE mid-1800s, through the Hawkins line, four generations of the Curl and Lee families have farmed the Garrison Fork River Valley in the unincorporated community of Fairfield. Don Curl and his wife, Claudia, live in Wartrace, while Whit and Rosalie Lee live near...
by Amanda West | Aug 13, 2024 | Feature
ROB MCGILL dreamed of being a pilot. He even majored in aerospace at Middle Tennessee State University. After graduation, jobs in the airline industry were scarce, so McGill, who had been working in the pro shop at Old Fort Golf Course while taking classes, took a...
by Amanda West | Aug 13, 2024 | Feature
HAL SKELTON drove over the railroad tracks for the first time in 1966 and scanned the thin row of buildings. As a recent college graduate, he’d accepted the position sight unseen. Could this be where he would teach seventh and eighth grade math and was supposed to...
by Amanda West | Aug 13, 2024 | Cover
IN THE 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz,” a tornado whisked Dorothy from the hayfields of Kansas to a colorful, whimsical land where she faced many challenges and gathered new friends along her journey. Finally, she clicked the heels of her ruby red slippers together and...
