by Guest Writer | Jan 15, 2025 | Stories, Tullahoma
When Christine Jones pops her head into the class at Bel-Aire Elementary School, one child’s smile lights up the room. He runs to her, bursting to tell her about his week as they head to the cafeteria for lunch. The pair sits at the tablecloth-covered “special table,”...
by Jeriah Brumfield | Jan 15, 2025 | Stories, Tullahoma
The audience holds its breath as the velvet curtain rolls back, revealing the stage of Tullahoma’s South Jackson Performing Arts Center (SJPAC). This moment, repeated numerous times over the years, isn’t just the start of a show — it’s the core of a community, the...
by Wesley Bryant | Jan 15, 2025 | Stories, Tullahoma
A nurse walked down the hallway his mother walked decades before he did. Beep … beep … he could hear the sounds from patients’ rooms. He kept a small keepsake pinned to his scrubs, a pin his mother gave him when he graduated nursing school. She had once worn the same...
by Wesley Bryant | Dec 13, 2024 | Stories, Tullahoma
The people of the year 1000 faced division, uncertainty, and fear for the future. They didn’t know it then, but they stood at the edge of change, transitioning from the Dark Ages to the Middle Ages. Nine centuries later, in 1914, I wonder how people felt as the world...
by Jeriah Brumfield | Dec 13, 2024 | Stories, Tullahoma
Lisa Marcrom’s fingers glided across her client’s tense muscles, a particular relaxation method that seemed to soothe the body and mind. The client’s crumpled brow started to soften as her hands moved with practiced precision. The tension in their shoulders...
by Jeriah Brumfield | Dec 13, 2024 | Stories, Tullahoma
Catherine Stephens didn’t plan a career as a superintendent — it developed naturally, like a story she was meant to live. Early in the mornings, one could find her in the classroom, her smile growing as she watched students grasp and apply new concepts. The energy of...
