Secret Vistas: The Great Smoky Mountains

National Park Celebrates 75th Anniversary Glynn Wilson A rock tunnel beckons as you enter the Great Smoky Mountains National Park… by Glynn Wilson GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS — When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood at Newfound Gap with one foot in…

Science Wins Over Religion in Scopes Monkey Trial?

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species Turns 150 Glynn Wilson The famous Rhea County Courthouse, where the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial took place Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson DAYTON, Tenn. — Forty-three years after the death of British…

TVA to Begin Coal Ash Spill Cleanup March 20

Glynn Wilson A coal ash island visible in the Emory River with the smokestacks of TVA’s coal fired power plant at Kingston, Tennessee in the background. by Glynn Wilson KINGSTON, Tenn. — Steve Scarborough came to East Tennessee from Georgia…

Understanding the Corporate Press and American Democracy

Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson A couple of weeks ago, when not one single Republican took up our new President Barrack Obama’s call for “bipartisanship” to vote for his stimulus package to aid the faltering economy — a measure…

Damn the Pride of Men

Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson The history of the Civil War has never really interested me that much compared to the American Revolution. Neither has the Great Man theory of history interested me nearly as much as the study…