Through Mountain Mists

When I first began researching area history and heard the name Zenobia Addington Chastain, I was fascinated by it. When I learned further th...

I was perhaps 5 years old when I first remember seeing the Rev. James J. Hood at Choestoe Baptist Church. He sat at the old pump-style churc...

Once an entity of Union County government, the County Farm or Almshouse, also called the Pauper’s House or the Poor House, operated for appr...

Union County was once visited by one of America’s best-known naturalists, John Muir. Long before the terms conservation and environment were...

Two columns that are perhaps the hardest for a journalist to write are the last one of the year just ending and the first one of a year just...

Byron Herbert Reece composed several poems about Christmas. I have taken writer’s license in this story to imagine how he might have written...

I feel a holy indignation toward those who are trying to take Christ out of Christmas. A subtle movement is under way in America to be “poli...