
Editorial photograph of M. Zane Myers, Executive Director of the Symphony of the Mountains.

When I was given a project for this year’s Tennessee Vacation Guide and told that the theme would be great places to dine in the Volunteer State, I assumed that I’d be visiting some of my favorite statewide barbecue palaces such at The Ridgewood, Jacks and others. I was certainly surprised to learn that FINE...

I couldn’t believe it when I got the call to cover Barack Obama’s kickoff of his general election campaign after the democratic nomination in June. At first I thought someone was playing a joke on me, but two days later I was there in the smallish Bristol Virginia High School gymnasium for the speech that...