No Kin to Elvis Comes to Dixie
THE MARSHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATER JOINS NASHVILLE AND ATLANTA THEATRICAL GROUPS IN DEVELOPING NEW PLAY No Kin to Elvis is a musical comedy based on a book by the same name. The story is set 1957 in the fictitious town of Marlburn, Georgia, a small community situated in the heart of a burgeoning carpet industry, still enjoying a postwar boom. Emmer Lee Prestley, a young woman transplanted from the mountains of North Carolina, must...
High Drama on the Big Muddy
“If you have time, I’ll tell you a good Lane Davies story.” “Well, if it’s good, I’ll take time,” I said. I was visiting with Mr. James “Buddy” Pigg in an 1880s schoolhouse on Mingo Branch. Every year, Mr. Buddy graciously invites me to his family’s reunion in Sante Fe, Tennessee, held on the homeplace of his second cousin Charles. The guy he mentioned, the actor Lane Davies, is a friend of mine and the best friend of Mr. Buddy’s...
D. Man: My Life and Boxing
D. Man, a new book based on a memoir by Richard Paul Westcott and written by Dr. John White, is available at BarnesandNoble.com and Amazon.com CLICK ON THE DESCRIPTION ABOVE Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/D-Man-Boxing-Richard-Westcott/dp/1504911105/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432917034&sr=1-1&keywords=D.+Man%3A+My+Life+and+Boxing%3A+Based+on+a+Memoir Barnes and Noble:...
Random Recollections of a Railway Express Agent
My father was a Railway Express Agent in Columbia, Tennessee. Here are a few topics that came up in conversation after Thanksgiving dinner. Mr. Hardaway was the agent (manager) of the Railway Express Agency (REA) in Columbia, Tennessee in the early 1960s. He was nearing retirement when he became ill. The district manager in Atlanta called my dad, Jack White, in Cookeville and told him to return to Columbia to take Mr. Hardaway’s...
No Kin to Elvis, the audio book
No Kin to Elvis the Audiobook — coming soon! We shall keep you...