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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Another excellent work by Jack Neely
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Summary: A must for Knoxville and East Tennessee historians
Review: As a regular reader of "Colonel" Jack Neely in MetroPulse (Knoxville's alternative newspaper) and one who appreciated his previous volumes, Knoxville's Secret History I and II, I eagerly awaited this book. If you are interested in East Tennessee history and the people who made it--"Parson" Brownlow, Paul Y. Anderson, Lloyd Branson, the McClungs, General William Caswell, Joseph Mabry, Captain William Rule, Thomas O'Conner, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Edward T. Sanford, Calvin Johnson, the Bethel Cemetery, blues singer and composer Ida Cox, James Agee's father, Frances Hodgson Burnett's mother and many others--you need this book. Many of the gravesites are in Knoxville's Old Gray Cemetery. Take this book and visit the cemetery and revisit East Tennessee History and those who made it. The photographs are also outstanding! Highly recommended!
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Summary: A must for Knoxville and East Tennessee historians
Review: As a regular reader of "Colonel" Jack Neely in MetroPulse (Knoxville's alternative newspaper) and one who appreciated his previous volumes, Knoxville's Secret History I and II, I eagerly awaited this book. If you are interested in East Tennessee history and the people who made it--"Parson" Brownlow, Paul Y. Anderson, Lloyd Branson, the McClungs, General William Caswell, Joseph Mabry, Captain William Rule, Thomas O'Conner, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Edward T. Sanford, Calvin Johnson, the Bethel Cemetery, blues singer and composer Ida Cox, James Agee's father, Frances Hodgson Burnett's mother and many others--you need this book. Many of the gravesites are in Knoxville's Old Gray Cemetery. Take this book and visit the cemetery and revisit East Tennessee History and those who made it. The photographs are also outstanding! Highly recommended!
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Summary: It is a visual and intellectual wander.
Review: I was honored as a photographer to collaborate with the likes of Jack Neely. He is a classy writer whose knowledge of the area of East Tennesse sparked an interest in me. I have become eager to learn more about history through our explorations of the gravesites in the book. My own curiosity in grveyards started long ago with a visual interest in the marble markers and the lines and how shadows fall on them at different times of the day. This purely aesthetic pleasure developed into wonder about the actual people under the stones, what they did and who they were. The impact of the people's lives represented by the beautiful stones above their bodies is amazing,and far reaching. What a wonderful project to participate in!
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Summary: A pictorial tour of prominent locals' final resting places.
Review: The hardback version makes a good coffee table item. I own this version and it makes a good gift for anyone who lives or have ever lived in Knoxville. I consider this an investment in the past of my hometown and its prominence in the marble industry.
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Summary: A pictorial tour of local heroes graves.
Review: The hardback version makes a good coffeetable item.
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Summary: Re-live the past by exploring old places!
Review: This is a marvelous collection of historical gravesites in and around Knoxville. I have yet to explore the Old Gray cemetery where so many of the important people are laid to rest, but I did take a picture of the Confederate soldier who always faces North. The race car driver buried in Asbury brought back many memories of playing around there every Memorial Day as that is where my family are. Remembering my mother, step mother and so many brothers and sisters (now my father) gone for so long, having the race track monument was a pleasant diversion from the thoughts of death and the pain of loss. The text makes the book valuable as anybody can take pictures. I go around town on a regular basis with my camera busy -- but not usually in cemeteries. I did get a good one of a special dogwood tree out at the Catholic graveyard. We all visit cemeteries. My son Zack once lost his favorite toy, Bat Monkey, at the one in Pulaski as he and his brother loved to look at all the larger than life statues of famous city fathers there. This one in Knoxville may be only of interest to those who live here, but it is well done. I value my copy.
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Summary: Re-live the past by exploring old places!
Review: This is a marvelous collection of historical gravesites in and around Knoxville. Whoever chose the cemeteries and particular graves had a reason for his decisions but so many just-as-important such as the large burying ground in Fountain City were ignored for some reason. Could it be the location? That large place near downtown is not the only resting place for prominent leaders.
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