by Amanda West | Aug 12, 2023 | Cover
IT WAS a Friday evening in early June, and varsity baseball player Jaxon Sheffield had recently graduated from Cascade High School (CHS). Most young men his age might be out on the town celebrating with friends, but not Sheffield. Instead, he reminisced about why his...
by Amanda West | Aug 12, 2023 | Feature
BRANDI SMITH said she was an unusually talkative and wild child who teetered somewhere between Scout from “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Idgie Threadgoode from “Fried Green Tomatoes.” “I talked too much, and I couldn’t sit still. I had...
by Amanda West | Aug 12, 2023 | Feature
WHILE THE years have flown by too quickly, and Amanda Shelton has begged for time to pause and let her catch her breath, she’s never stopped being in awe of her daughters, Alyvia and Alyssa Smith. At one year and six months apart, Shelton lost count of how often...
by Amanda West | Aug 12, 2023 | Stories
SINCE 1979, Lazarus Lake has organized the annual Strolling Jim Ultra 40 Marathon in Wartrace, Tennessee. According to Lake, some of the best runners in the world have been to Bedford County for the Strolling Jim, the second oldest continually held ultramarathon in...
by Amanda West | Nov 1, 2022 | Stories
AMY EDMISTON, creator of the digital scrapbook “Pretty Old Places”, invites you to pull up a rocking chair on the wraparound porch of the old homeplace where stories line the shiplap walls like newsprint. “Finding out that others love the pictures and stories as much...
