by Leslie Sholly | Aug 14, 2017 | Genealogy, Politics, The South
I was eight years old, curled up on the naugahyde sofa in my grandmother’s basement, when I found my great-grandmother’s copy of Gone with the Wind, the commemorative movie edition.  I read it literally to pieces and I can recite the entire first...
by Leslie Sholly | Feb 15, 2016 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville, Uncategorized
Wow, y’all. Â If you are interested in history you really need to visit Lebanon in the Forks Presbyterian Cemetery. Â Honestly, my visit left me a little awestruck. But let me back up. Â Emily and I went walking Saturday, as we are wont to do. Â We picked our...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 2, 2015 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville
What better day than the Feast of All Souls to write about a cemetery? I may seem a little strange the rest of the year but today I am on topic and I have a beautiful graveyard to write about. You may remember that my last graveyard story was very sad, about a...
by Leslie Sholly | Sep 14, 2015 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville
Now, maybe you are thinking that’s a strange title.  Because shouldn’t visiting cemeteries make you sad?  Well, if they all made me this sad I’d stop visiting them.  Of course I feel sorrowful when I see baby graves.  Occasionally poor maintenance...
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 5, 2015 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville
If you live in West Knoxville and like shortcuts, you’ve driven past it hundreds of time–this old, old graveyard not quite at the corner of Westland and Ebenezer, sitting right in front of the driveway to the Maple Grove Inn. Â Nameless, signless,...
by Leslie Sholly | May 31, 2015 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville
You know by now some of the reasons I like to visit graveyards: Â the beauty, the history, the sense of peace I find there. Well, sadly, my most recent cemetery visit left me feeling not enlightened and peaceful but ENRAGED. I should have been more prepared, since I...