by Leslie Sholly | Nov 2, 2019 | Catholicism, death, Graveyards, Knoxville, photoblogging
Catholics are especially called to pray for the dead on All Souls Day. We are encouraged to visit a cemetery to do so if possible. So to commemorate this day, I am giving my readers a virtual visit to a graveyard. I was delivering a meal to a new mother two years...
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 4, 2018 | Knoxville, Parenting, teenagers
It was the second to last full week of summer break, and my pace was slowing, but we still had some fun times! On Tuesday we had breakfast at Nick and J’s, a former Waffle House now locally owned and serving breakfast and lunch, with the most enormous pancakes I...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 11, 2017 | Graveyards, Knoxville, Uncategorized
Pleasant Forest Cemetery is a hard one to miss. Â 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. Â Occasionally my graveyard trips are serendipitous and...
by Leslie Sholly | May 3, 2015 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville
Since I was a little girl visiting the old churches in the Smokies, I have enjoyed exploring graveyards.  But in March 2014 I took this interest to the next level when I started visiting, photographing, and writing about cemeteries on a regular basis.  I try to tell a...
by Leslie Sholly | Feb 12, 2015 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville
I know most of y’all are probably champing at the bit for Spring to arrive. Â Me, not so much. Â I’d like at least one good snowfall first. Â But today, I want you to stop thinking about Spring for a few minutes and instead remember Autumn. I’m behind...