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A sixties kind of guy remembering the past and the lessons learned. I'm passing on what I've mooched from from life in hopes of sparking memories and helping others. It's just my life as best I can make it.
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THINKING ‘BOUT GETTIN’ OUT OF THE MOWIN’ BUSINESS
I mowed the yard Tuesday. The grass has stopped growing but my primary purpose was to mulch the fallen leaves that have accumulated since my mom has been sick. Normally, I try to keep up with the number of leaves in order to avoid them damming up i...
HIP, HIP, HOORAY FOR HARRIMAN!
Harriman's 22nd Annual Labor Day Celebration was held this past Monday at Riverfront Park. The celebration is normally held on the blocked-off Roane Street downtown, but the promoters decided to add cooler river breezes and shade trees this year. ...
UNMARKED LAW ENFORCEMENT CAR IN HARRIMAN
My wife and I never saw the officer as we passed, so we weren’t sure if it was a City of Harriman Police car, or the Tennessee Highway Patrol, but a dark gray late model Chevrolet, with 2 flashing blue lights in the grill had a car stopped at the t...
WHEN JEFF COMES TO TOWN
Yes sir, ol’ “Fat” himself, Mr. Jeff Wilson from Killeen, TX, and famous for his “Fathairybastard” Blog came to see ol’ Mushy for a couple of days this week. This is his third trip and each trip seems to bring us closer together. He’...
THE CLASS OF '64
As you know, at least my “faithful followers” do, that my family moved back to Harriman, Tennessee in the summer of 1962. I had finished my sophomore year in Florence, Alabama. Soon after, my dad came home to inform us that he had found a job ...
YOU'VE SEEN MY HOMETOWN, NOW SEE MY COUNTY...
Come visit soon!...
THIS IS MY HOMETOWN
Take a quick look around Harriman, Tennessee, my hometown. GO HEREIt's probably a lot like your hometown...slowly being choked out by Wal-Mart and the ever encroaching big city shopping malls. However there is still life here, and if you look very ...
DID YOU HAVE A COOL NICKNAME IN HIGH SCHOOL?
I was contacted again by my old friend Mickey Jones Monday. He sent me two separate pieces his brother, Larry Jones, had written and compiled. One was a poem he called “Harriman Nicknames”, and the other was a compilation of the nicknames he co...
THE HARRIMAN HOOLIGANS
Recently I’ve been in touch with another “Harriman Hooligan”, as he likes to call his Class of ’64 buddies. His name is Mickey Jones, and he once worked for the IRS, but now does something along the same lines for the state. He was tight frie...
THE PRESENT, PAST, AND FUTURE
Judy and I had a large day Tuesday, not that most days aren’t like that since retirement, but we were up and off to the dentist by 9:30.We both had appointments; she had an assessment of her braces and found out that they had little effect on her ...
THE PROTECTOR
A life-size, bronze sculpture entitled "The Protector" was unveiled at a memorial service held Sunday, September 21, 2008, in Harriman, Tennessee’s Riverfront Park, as police officers and sheriff's deputies from all across East Tennessee paused...
ON BUZZARD’S BLUFF
Ron had to get his car’s oil changed today, so I picked him up at the Ford place and took him on a road trip around Harriman before a planned lunch at Ruby Tuesday’s. We first explored a small road that twisted its way up Walden’s Ridge no...
"RAISING THE CURTAIN" - PRINCESS THEATER
Some of you may remember my post “The Princess Theater” back in July of 2007. I said then that there was an effort underway to restore the theater. Well, I’m happy to report that is happening now and being pushed forward by two neighborhood ...
CAN YOU SAY CATAWBA?
An American Indian tribe that lived in the South Carolina area, known as the Catawba (keto’be), gave this tree the name Catalpa (pronounced ketal'pe). It is said that the Indians smoked the bean pods for a hallucinogenic effect, so the tree became ...
ROANE COUNTY TENNESSEE SPRING WALKS
We are blessed in East Tennessee with many wonderful state and national parks, greenways, and pocket wildernesses to walk in and enjoy the spring wildflowers. Closer to home, in Roane County, we are again blessed with city parks, river walks, and ...
