by Tina Neeley | Oct 12, 2024 | Stories
THE CHURCH parking lot is full. Fire trucks, ambulances, police and sheriff ’s department cars, and other emergency response vehicles encircle the property and overflow into areas surrounding Shelbyville’s Edgemont Baptist Church. It might spark concern or speculation...
by Tina Neeley | Jul 23, 2024 | Stories
TEN DAYS out of the year, taste, tradition, and Tennessee walking horses combine to create the touchstone of the crowning of the national grand champion. Lines as long — and longer at times — as those at the ticket booths form day and night, not for a peek at an...
by Tina Neeley | Jul 18, 2024 | Stories
It’s a reality for too many with blood diseases and cancers. Hopefulness with the start of radiation or other treatment fades to disappointment. Fear threatens to suffocate patients’ dreams of seeing their children into adulthood, meeting their grandchildren,...
by Tina Neeley | Jul 18, 2024 | Cover
HIS LONG, narrow fingers danced across the strings, no longer obsessed with the movements of the bow in his hand. Instead, the world around him disappeared into the melody, the fiddle’s mellow yet vibrant tones coloring his early life in Ashland, Kentucky. As a...
by Tina Neeley | Jul 18, 2024 | Stories
THEY SAY never judge a book by its cover. In its spot on the Shelbyville Central High School library shelves, it sat untouched, passed over for the more recent, colorful selections around it. It patiently waited as students came in waves and rotations to work on term...
