Category · 5 postsFamily Stories
All posts in the automatic “Family Stories” category, newest first.
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February 2, 2018
Prisoners of our Cars
Originally published May, 2010 · republished 2018
Originally Published in May, 2010 – Still loving the townhouse and city living I grew up in Maryville, TN, always living within easy walking or…
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January 1, 2018
The WPA and Granny’s Little Brown Shack
In my previous Permanent Fixes Blog I posted a couple of times during the financial crisis about this family relic, using it as an example…
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August 11, 2016
Education in America (Well, Tennessee Anyway) – 100 Years Ago (May 12, 2010)
Originally published May 12, 2010 · republished 2016
I wrote a couple of days ago about some changes in education over the past fifty years, but I also have one first-hand account of…
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July 18, 2016
Carrying the Mail (9/29/2010)
Originally published 9/29/2010 · republished 2016
My maternal grandfather, Oscar Shelley, a rural mail carrier for 33 years, 1927 to 1960, wore out a new Chevrolet every two years on Route…
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July 18, 2016
Granddaddy Williams and the National Economy (9/16/2011)
Originally published 9/16/2011 · republished 2016
My paternal grandfather, Richard Hobart Williams, was a hard-working staunch conservative, a Hoover Republican who traveled around East Tennessee during the Great Depression trading horses…
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