Author: Alan Brown

When East Tennessee State University first opened its doors in 1911, it was a training school for teachers. ETSU still prepares teachers in grades P-12, but it also serves Northeast Tennessee’s health care system, educational...

Long Island, Tennessee, is a far cry from its much more famous counterpart, Long Island, New York. Long Island, Tennessee, which is a four-mile-long, half-mile-wide island in the Holston River, was sacred to the Cherokee...

Sullivan County has two abandoned tunnels which are said to be haunted. Click Tunnel on Sensabugh Hollow Road in Church Hill, Tennessee, was originally a natural tunnel which was widened by the Clinchfield Railroad when it laid...

When the Scotch-Irish immigrated to the American south in the early 19th century, they brought along with them stories of ghosts and witches from their homeland. One of these legends that Scottish grandparents told their...

The creation of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was predicted by John Hendrix (1865-1917) forty years before the founding of the city. In 1942, Major General Leslie Groves chose the rural site as the location for developing materials for...