by Leslie Sholly | Jul 15, 2018 | Graveyards, homeschooling, Knoxville, Parenting, Vacations
Y’all, it is HOT. And our access to a swimming pool is gone. It is hard to want to leave the air conditioning to have summer adventures, but we managed three days of fun this week. I couldn’t get it together till Wednesday, when we had to leave the house...
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 | Jul 29, 2017 | family, Vacations
Would you believe until last year I had never spent a night in Kentucky? I’ve driven through it on the way to points North, unsurprisingly, but somehow went almost 50 years without vacationing in a state I can drive to in an hour. We remedied that last October...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 11, 2017 | Graveyards, Knoxville, Uncategorized
Pleasant Forest Cemetery is a hard one to miss. It’s enormous, for one thing, and it’s on a well-traveled road. I’ve driven by it many times and it’s been on my list to visit for awhile. Occasionally my graveyard trips are serendipitous and...
by Leslie Sholly | Feb 15, 2016 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville, Uncategorized
Wow, y’all. If you are interested in history you really need to visit Lebanon in the Forks Presbyterian Cemetery. Honestly, my visit left me a little awestruck. But let me back up. Emily and I went walking Saturday, as we are wont to do. We picked our...