by Leslie Sholly | Nov 14, 2015 | Deep Thoughts, FIRE, Knoxville, linkups
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right. – Maya Angelou You can’t go home again isn’t just metaphorical for many people.  The first home I ever knew–the married student housing apartments where...
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 | Nov 1, 2015 | Knoxville, linkups, My Sunday Photo, photoblogging, Walking in Knoxville
My daughter and I were hiking on Saturday along the Tennessee River when I snapped this iPhone photo of downtown Knoxville. Â It was one of those pictures that I knew would be good before I even took it. The greenway we were on is about two miles from downtown, and...
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,...