by Amanda West | Sep 13, 2024 | Feature
THE TENDER sweet corn grazed young Edgar Kane’s hip as he pressed his tennis shoe into the imprint his grandfather’s boot had left in the soil. When the older man fed the cows, slopped the hogs, weeded his garden, or chased the chickens from the porch, young Edgar...
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 Tina Neeley | Jul 18, 2024 | Feature
THE CONFERENCE room filled with nervous energy as everyone waited for the resolution of a snag from the final walkthrough. Many other challenges on the road to closing left everyone unsure this day would come. Closing documents and conversation shuttled back and forth...
by Tina Neeley | Jul 18, 2024 | Feature
AS IF frozen in time, John Ruskin’s words ring true as you take in the elegant brick cornices and window arches that accentuate the character of Shelbyville’s town square storefronts. The embellishments, remnants of the 19th century, adorn the storefronts as if...
by Guest Writer | Jun 15, 2024 | Feature
WHILE SCOTT Johnson’s University of Tennessee, Knoxville classmates in the College of Business accepted positions with banks and manufacturing companies, he considered a job offer from a Shelbyville bank. But it was public service, not customer service, pulling him...
