A ranking came out of the 35 Best Tattoo Shops in the US, and when you get near the top of the list you'll find a shop located right here in the Land of Lincoln. If you are looking for some new ink this holiday season, you need to check out this shop.
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ELIZABETHTON âNearly 150 living history re-enactors will gather next weekend and add a bit more history to the grounds at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park.
Thatâs because the re-enactors portraying frontiersmen, Cherokee warriors, and British officials will converge at the recreated Fort Watauga at Sycamore Shoals for the parkâs first re-enactment event since it was virtually shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 26th Siege of Fort Watauga on May 15 and 16 will relive the days when the first frontier was the land beyond the Blue Ridge.
The siege recreates one of the many memorable events that took place at Fort Watauga and Sycamore Shoals during the last quarter of the 18th century. The siege tells the story of a Cherokee attack that took place on settlements along the Nolichucky, Watauga, Doe and Holston rivers during the summer of 1776.
Who was St. Louisâ first professional tattoo artist?
In 1947, the Post reported that he was considered one of the six best tattoo artists in the world.
Illustration by Britt Spencer
The first to officially set up shop, on Market Street in the 1920s, was Bert Grimm. Born in Springfield, Missouri, Grimm left home at age 15 with one goal: to become a master tattoo artist. In the summer, he traveled with carnivals, inking tattoos; in the winter, he haunted Chicagoâs penny arcades, inking tattoos. âThereâs two kinds of tattooists,â he told the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1942. âThose who can face the guy a second time and those that donât dare, the drifters, in other words.â