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A Tennessee-only guide, but a great read nonetheless
Ms. Capps' book includes paintings of the remaining Rock City Barns that dot the Tennessee landscape as well as interviews with owners, local stories, and maps to these landmarks that seem to disappear with saddening regularity.If dilapidated barns are your idea of art, you'll spend a lot of time pulling this book down and paging through it.
(See www.ohiobarns.com for a section with photos of and directions to the Rock City Barns that remain around the US.) ... Read more

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The Human Story of Oak Ridge
Those looking for technical, scientific information or Manhattan Project secrets wont be satisfied with this book.However, it provides an incredibly detailed account of social issues, and the effects of a secret city on a person's psyche.It highlights stories of human sacrifice, class warfare and living under Big Brother's thumb in the name of National Security and scientific proweress. Its yet another story of how the government attempted a secret project and succeded, but as a dismal failure on the human front.

Unfortunately, the story was written by a couple of UT (Tennessee) professors, who are not exactly professional writers.Gramatical errors and poor sentance structure plague each chapter.But despite the quality of writing, this is an incredible story that I could not put down!

Anyone interested in The WWII home front, baby boomers, E Tennessee history, and governement secrets would find this a fascinating read!

Great insight into the Atomic City
Most people have heard about Hanford and Los Alamos, yet Oak Ridge also played an important part in the atomic energy program.This book gives insight into a town that was created by the government during WW2.

The book is filled with great archive pictures of the town during the war years.A lot of the places described in the book are still standing in the town.

I may be somewhat biased as I grew up in the 70's and 80's in this interesting town.

No one wanted to talk about it!
My husband always told me his Mom and Dad met and married in Oak Ridge, TN and he has always been after them to write - or tape - the story of their lives in Oak Ridge. His Mom always says "Oh, nobody wants to hear about that!" We attended a family reunion there and as part of the trip, visited the Museum of Atomic Energy in Oak Ridge. In the bookshop, I spotted this book, and couldn't leave without it. It was so interesting! I believe the people of Oak Ridge were in shock the days that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, and they were so used to not talking about what they did there, the silence just continued. My inlaws confirmed that they truly did not know what they were building. When they saw news footage of the devastation, many Oak Ridgers didn't want anyone else to ever know. My inlaws say that a family member who worked there suffered such emotional trauma upon finding out, she was never normal again. No one knows what a unique place - in all the world and perhaps for all time - Oak Ridge, TN was - and is. If you believe that truth is often stranger than fiction, you'll enjoy this history lesson.

A Nice Story of Life Behind the Fences
I was born in the Atomic City during the 60's, and grew up hearing thestories of my parents life 'behind the fences'.The book provided aglimpse of the way in which people endured hardship and sacrifice in thename of national security and for an often misunderstood (and rarelydiscussed) science.Many of the places mentioned in the story still existtoday.This story may have meant more to me as a native to the area thanto those simply looking for a story about the Manhattan Project, as itfocused more on the daily lives of the people than the scientific matter. ... Read more

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Tales of ghostlyspirits envelop thenortheast Tennesseelandscape like a familiar mountain fog. Join PeteDykes, editor of Kingsport's Daily News, as he offersup a collection of spooky local stories and legendsfrom centuries past, including such spine-chillingaccounts as the foreboding ghost of NetherlandInn Road, spectral disturbances at the RotherwoodMansion, devilish felines, ruthless poltergeists inCaney Creek Falls, the tortured cries from fallenRebel soldiers still heard today- and could bigfootreally be buried in the woods of Big Stone Gap? ... Read more

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Order your own softcover black & white reprint of a previously owned high school yearbook. Whether you no longer have your own copy or want to surprise someone with a unique gift, the memories in this yearbook are sure to make someone smile! All the pages and images are reproduced as-is, which means your copy may show handwriting or effects of aging, and that certain pages, images, or other content may be omitted, missing, or obscured. Because this is a black & white print, any color images (excluding the cover) will print as gray. You can preview the color pages before you buy at www.classmates.com/yearbooks.Don't miss out! Bring home a piece of your history. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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"This first full-length biography of Kingsport challenges interpretations of regional history that promote the colonial and poverty models. It will interest scholars of urbanization, city planning, and industrialization as well as local history enthusiasts."

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The Model City
Though written in 1987 - this book is probably the best book covering nearly all aspects of the forming of Kingsport, history, as well as the industrial influence and background.I would love for Dr. Wolfe to revisit this book and update some of the information - as Kingsport has grown, but the Industies are suffering.I would like to know what her opinion is also, of the outsourcing of jobs to other countries and major plants shutting down in the city, leaving hundreds of workers scrambling to garner ne employment.But what employment is available is always less paying and with less benefits, and less hope of a decent retirement.It's a shame.Rambling aside, I recommend Dr. Wolfe's book because she doesn't sugar coat the facts like some of the other books about the city have done.

Understanding Apples

Gathering Leaves: Understanding Apples Book Two

Good overview of industrialization of small southern town
Kingsport's population peak during WWII has never returned again, despite a half century of growth by annexation.Professor Wolfe has done a very fine job of archival research and interviews to enlighten the reader.Though her survey is more critical, obviously, than a publication each decade of the 90's by the local Rotary Club, Wolfe ads the human element and anecdotal illustrations to complement the Rotary's advertising bent.

City builder J. Fred Johnson has become a legendary and almost apocrypha figure for this town in the foothills of Southern Appalachia.Middle class factory workers and country club executives dominated this city during the 20th century.But the 21 century has arrived as industrial downsizing is taking a toll.

Wolfe tells the true story as it really happened, 'warts and all.'Hopefully either Professor Wolfe or someone else will fill in more details and produce a future volume that fills in the gaps of the history of this city whose most prominent claim to fame is the hometown and idyllic setting of Lisa Alther's veiled trashy novel, "Kinflicks." ... Read more

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Ms Burks' Sloppy Facts
There are so many falsities in Ms. Burks' "book review", its hard to know where to begin. First of all, we are not "shut down" here in Oak Ridge and never were. We're going stronger than ever with alternative energy technologies, high performance computing, and neutron and materials sciences. There is absolutely no proof that "uranium and plutonium came all the way over on the wind to Knoxville, causing all kinds of cancer." I recommend "At Work in the Atomic City", along with "City Behind a Fence: Oak Ridge, Tennessee" and Ed Westcott's photo book "Oak Ridge, Tennessee".

The Secret City Finally Revealed.
In September, 1952, 'The Antioch Review, published an article called 'Acorns to Atoms' written by Clifford Seeber.It was later released in booklet form; he was a native Oak Ridger who took up for the reputaiton of his birthplace, saying it wasn't "inhabited by ignorant hill-billies" just because it was fill with Oak trees (acorns).The fertile valleys produced "better families;" the ridges were full of scrubby oak and "poor whites."

The Oak Ridge lab (part of the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb) was mainly an assembly line.The workers had no idea what they were doing.Many thought they were producing ice cream sticks and for lollypop novelties.They were exposed to dangerous livels of radioactivity and harmful chemicals which caused many deaths among the government workers.They were pressured to produce materials for the bomb, often overriding safety considerations.

Most of the workers were brought in to this "secret, hidden" city (really a very small concentration camp in extremely primitive living conditions) from other places; very few natives were used in this experimental phase which needed discreet and competent people to do dangerous occupations without inquiring the nature of their work.When workers or their families became ill, there was no extended family nosing around.Leaks of the radioactivity uranium and plutonium came all the way over on the wind to Knoxville, causing all kinds of cancer.
At my neighborhood school, we had to wear dog tags like soliders in battle wore in case of chemical extermination or serious leaks.We had drills on crawling under our school desks in case we were bombed like London.We didn't question why anyone would want to eradicate this town, even a country school, as we had no knowledge of bombs or hand-to-hand war.We hadn't been alive during the American Civil War.

The women workers of the '40s secret operation looked like computer operators of the first huge computers, a long way down the road of things to come.The survivors claim they knew nothing of what their jobs were; they just did what they were told to do.

A local columnist, Sam Venable, like funny incidents.He writes about the top-secret days of Oak Ridge; herelates how everyone back then had a 'pat' answer for strangers who asked too many questions.One Oak Ridge worker told people he was making "the front part of horses to be shipped to Washington, D.C. for assembly." Homer Rayburn was one of the earliest workers on the Manhattan Project and always told people he was making Popsicle sticks.Robert Dunlap told him about this humorous tale about the many beer joints along Clinton Highway; "One day, a stranger showed up.He sat down next to one fellow, bought him a beerm and started 'shooting the breeze.'Finally, he asked him "How many people work at Oak Ridge?" The local guy didn't fall for it.He just grinned that Knoxville grin and said, "About half of them."

They used local black men to do hard labor jobs and housed them in a type of barracks called hutments.They worked like dogs because the government pay was good but they paid with various health hazards, illnesses, even death.

The pictures are interesting, but ther was a large spread covering an entire news sections in the local Sunday edition of the News Sentinel with clearer and more precise photos.Also, a display was held at the Oak Ridge Space Museum for those with transportation to get there.Knoxville still does not like to admit that we had that danger on our doorstep, and yet we wer not told by the United States Government what was going on.It was a disaster waiting to happen.

It was shut down shortly after the bombs were dropped in Japan.Mission accomplished. ... Read more

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Streetwise Nashville Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Nashville, Tennessee - Folding pocket size travel map

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Think Nashville and right away you think country music capital of the world. Tales of heartache and honky tonk are the fuel for a city that stakes its reputation and fortunes on music. It’s also a bastion of down home southern cooking with places like the Loveless Café claiming to have the best fried chicken and biscuits in town.

Looking at the main map of Nashville you see the Cumberland River runs through and divides it. On the far east side of the Cumberland and prominently drawn on the Nashville map is the massive Music Valley and Opry Land complex, but don’t start and end your Nashville experience here. Head downtown - a busy compact district where daytime shopping, walking, Country & Western museums and nightlife take place. Second Avenue shopping, restaurants and music clubs are also a must visit. The Titan’s football stadium, Adelphia Coliseum, is just across the river from Second Avenue. Nashville Tennessee revels in down home charm.

The Nashville Area Map will help you travel around outlying areas of the city and will help you locate Nashville’s two airports: Nashville International, and John C Tune Municipal Airport.

A complete index of streets, hotels, points of interest, shopping, and parks is clearly listed on the STREETWISE® Nashville Map.

Our pocket size map of Nashville is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Nashville map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Nashville map today and you too can navigate Nashville, Tennessee like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar. ... Read more

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Not Very Good
This map is very disappointing. I never use it because it doesn't have detailed areas of Brentwood, Cool Springs, etc. The only thing I look at is for is the close-up of downtown. The best quickie-type map I've found is the one handed out by rental car companies at the airport for Nashville.

Not the Best
the information was good but the map is a bit confusing since you have to flip it over for the other half of the map.Would not purchase another map like this. ... Read more

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The antebellum South has been drawn largely as a map of contrasting extremes—a vast agrarian landscape punctuated by a few major cities. Small towns have either been viewed as sleepy villages that reflected the countryside or dismissed as urban microcosms. In Constructing Townscapes, however, the small town emerges from obscurity to reveal its distinctive and influential role in the southern landscape.

Using existing architectural evidence as well as photographs, maps, diaries, letters, and newspapers, Lisa Tolbert shows how residents of four county seats in antebellum Middle Tennessee rebuilt and reorganized their towns in response to changing social and economic circumstances. She also illuminates the ways in which three seemingly powerless groups—women, young men, and slaves—influenced the arrangement of town space, vividly retracing the footsteps of members of these groups as they traveled town streets to perform their daily routines.

Through careful analysis of the relationships between the material and social contexts of town life, Tolbert shows that small towns, whose stories have usually been considered incidental to the course of southern history, should actually be understood as important components of antebellum southern culture. ... Read more

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Chapters: Lenoir City, Tennessee, Farragut, Tennessee, Loudon, Tennessee, Greenback, Tennessee, Philadelphia, Tennessee, Bat Creek Inscription, Bussell Island, Little Tennessee River, Blair's Ferry Storehouse, National Register of Historic Places Listings in Loudon County, Tennessee, Fort Loudoun Dam, Morganton, Tennessee, Lenoir Cotton Mill, Roane State Community College, Melton Hill Dam, Tellico Village, Tennessee, Tellico Dam, Watts Bar Lake, Knoxville Metropolitan Area, Tellico Reservoir, Fort Loudoun Lake, Dixie Lee Junction, Tennessee, Carpenters Island. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 108. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Bat Creek inscription is an inscription carved on a stone found in a Native American burial mound in Loudon County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in 1889. The inscription consists of characters loosely resembling the Cherokee alphabet invented by Sequoyah in the early 1800s. In the early 1970s, the inscription became a source of controversy when linguist Cyrus Gordon argued it was actually a Paleo-Hebrew inscription, and thus provided evidence of Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact. However, University of Tennessee archaeologists and other experts reject Gordon's assertion, arguing instead that the inscription is a fraud typical of late-19th century archaeological hoaxes. The stone was initially found in 1889 by a burial mound survey team led by John W. Emmert of the Smithsonian Institution. The mound was located at the confluence of the Little Tennessee River and Bat Creek, a few miles north of modern Vonore. The mound had been leveled by the time University of Tennessee archaeologists conducted salvage excavations in the area in the 1970s. Bat CreekThe Little Tennessee River enters Tennessee from the Appalachian Mountains to the south and flows n...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11137542 ... Read more