Article by W. Clay Crook- The special guest speaker for the November 30, 2021, meeting of the Lexington Rotary Club was Cindy Palmer, who is the Lexington Extension Campus Director for the Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT). TCAT started with state legislation in 1963, so that every citizen would have access to technical education.…

Article by W. Clay Crook- There are only two dozen or so known Revolutionary War Veterans that have lived in Henderson County. Quite a number of them filed claims here in the 1820’s and 1830’s but left for other places. Some, like Archibald McCorkle and Joseph Purviance, lived and died in Henderson County, but are…

Article by Phillip Renfroe- “The Bank of Lexington, with the late E.J. Timberlake as cashier and the late Judge John E. McCall, president, was founded in the fall of 1887, and forty years passed without even an attempted bank robbery until Monday, November 21, 1927, when a successful raid was made on the Luray Banking…

Article by W. Clay Crook- There are two new signs for the Parkers Crossroads Battlefield sites, one at North Park Unit at Wildersville Road, and another at the South Park Unit located on Highway 22 North at Federal Lane. The signs sport the National Park Service logo. Travelers often aren’t aware that the battlefield is…

Release- Holidays can be a difficult time for families missing their loved ones, and particularly for victims and survivors of homicide. That’s why federal, state, and local public safety officials have hosted “Tennessee Season to Remember” every year since 2003 to honor and remember victims and survivors of homicide. This year, due to the ongoing…

I spent Saturday morning with about eight other friends and acquaintances, hunting deer. My mood was still melancholy because of the unseasonably warm weather, but the company and camaraderie made up for it. Our group was made up of the young and old, the experienced and the novice, and those who just came along for…