I lost my other Margy last week.
When I moved back to Kingsport in 2002 to take care of my mother, Margie Staten, I reconnected with my old friend Margy Clark, who had been a treasured colleague during my first stint at the Kingsport Times News in the mid-seventies.
Margy â different spelling from my mother â was recently widowed and we became running mates, again.
We would have dinner together once a week, always at a different spot. We talked about putting together a book of restaurant reviews of Tri-Cities restaurants but in the end we decided we would rather enjoy our meals than critique them.
Recent editorials from Tennessee newspapers: March 4 The Kingsport Times-News on the governor's authority over school reopenings: The Tennessee General Assembly has found it necessary to clarify that Gov. Bill Lee’s authority over the state’s system of public education includes that he may, by executive order, require that they open. It’s come down to politics: Republicans believe the governor should have that authority, while Democrats do.
March 6, 1898: The Chattanooga Sunday Times reported that the smallpox epidemic was getting better in Jonesboro. With a Jonesboro dateline, readers learned, ââThere is a marked improvement in the smallpox scare affliction in upper East Tennessee, so that the quarantine has been raised.â
âJonesboroâ was spelled that way in 1898.
There was not a daily newspaper published in Johnson City in 1898. The Comet was Johnson Cityâs newspaper at that time, and it was published on a weekly basis.
March 6, 1909: The Bristol Herald Courier, with a dateline of Johnson City, reported on recent activity at Munsey Memorial Church. âThe concrete floor in the basement of Munsey Memorial church (sic) has been completed and the room will soon be ready for the library and school equipment. Arrangements for purchasing all supplies are being looked into by Rev. S.B. Vaught, who will have absolute charge of all of it. A set of rules and by-laws governing the Munsey club (
The Kingsport Times-News on implementing higher quality history curriculum in Tennessee schools:
There are lots of excuses for the continuing decline in teaching American history in public schools. But in some states, Tennessee for example, something is finally being done about it with Gov. Bill Lee expanding a program he began to recognize schools and districts that prioritize teaching history and civic values.
We’ve been aware of the erosion in teaching history for decades. In 1985, the New York Times found that “If knowledge of the past is in fact relevant to our ability to understand the present and to exercise freedom of mind - as totalitarian societies, both real and fictional, acknowledge by stringently controlling what may be studied or published - then there is cause for concern about many Americans’ sense of history.
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