Today’s column is a response to a university student in Cairo, Egypt on what caused the economic collapse in 2008. The student had read a lengthy article I had written on the subject and asked for a shorter less complicated explanation. Below is what I wrote:
Government interference in the economy was the cause of almost [...]

ZOE SCROGGS FEATURED IN “AIRING OF THE QUILTS”
Sesquicentennial Events Continue
By:  Brenda Kay Ledford
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.  Its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness,” penned John Keats.
Zoe Scroggs captures the beauty of nature, landscapes, animals, and flowers in her colorful art quilts.
One art quilt depicts a stream flowing through the [...]

Tusquittee Chronicles     Part XV
By Claude Moss
SAN FRANCISCO–1953–”There was a young man of Fort Worth, who was born on the day of his birth. He was married, some say, on his wife’s wedding day, and he died when he quitted this earth.”
The statements in the above limerick are as debatable as some of the [...]

A Taste of the Thames
By: Willis P. Whichard
Special to the Smoky Mountain Sentinel
Part VIII: The Holy Trinity Church, Clivedon Estates and Windsor Castle
Saturday, June 18, 2011
We left our hotel at 9 a.m. to walk along what Ken called the “semi-legal track to find the Thames again. We had two miles of easy walking to the [...]

Remembering the Old Courthouse

Part XV

By: Janice Hicks

As a native of Clay County, I am excited about the proposed project to restore the Courthouse of the Square in Hayesville. When I was a child, the library was in the courthouse. Growing up on a farm, there wasn’t a lot to do so I [...]

The countdown is on for the 3rd annual Punkin Chunkin Festival.  In case you haven’t heard the 3 day event has been moved to Dr. John Kelley’s property 2 miles north of Hayesville on Tusquitte Rd.  The dates are Oct 21-23.  Check the Chamber website for the  calendar of events or call the Chamber office [...]

Anna Lou Talbott White
Anna Lou Talbott White was born Christmas Day, 1919 to the late Richard Samuel and Ethel Nelson Talbott, the eldest of four children. On October 8, 2011 she passed away quietly, having lost her long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by brothers David and [...]

Dear friend and neighbor, Roberte Lee Mashburne, a long-time resident of Young Harris and then Andrews, who was also a World War II vet, went to go be with our precious Lord and Savior in the early morning hours of 9/27/11. He leaves behind his friends, his 3 daughters, his many grandchildren, his brother and his brother’s children.
“Mash” [...]

“The Goats” taps into theme of bullying
An interview with the film’s producer
By Frank Bradley
Sentinel writer
Camera’s were rolling again in Towns County on Monday as the movie crew for “The Goats” were getting final shots of kids on the beach.
Two weeks earlier, the crew had completed most of the beach scenes, but a failure with one [...]

Tusquittee Chronicles  Part XIV
By Claude Moss
SAN FRANCISCO–1953–I believe that it was during the period from 1885 to 1887 that an itinerate singing master came to Tusquittee and conducted a singing school lasting about three weeks each year. Mr. Hill emphasized religious songs but taught a few others. One of them contained advice to the girls [...]