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ELIZABETHTON — A Carter County man pleaded guilty in Carter County Criminal Court on Thursday to a charge of killing his mother. John Christopher Ralph, 53, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Edith Betty Ralph. He had originally been charged with first-degree murder. Criminal Court Judge Stacy Street sentenced Ralph to 22 years in prison. According to state law, there is no release eligibility for a person convicted of second-degree murder. The law says Ralph will serve 100% of the sentence imposed by the court, less sentence credits earned and retained. But the sente...

True West Magazine True West considers these the most significant workhorses of the frontier. Produced in St. Louis, Missouri, by the Hawken family, these heavy, large-bored, full- and half-stock muzzleloaders were designed for shooting dangerous Western game. More rugged than the earlier Pennsylvania rifles, the Hawkens were considered the best of the plains rifles. Hawken customers included mountain men Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Mariano Modena and Jedediah Smith, among others. – firearm photo courtesy Rock Island Auction Company –   “The Gun That Won the West!” “Which gun was that...

Celebrating the Irish poitín The clear spirit is an ancestor of Irish whiskey, much like mezcal, which traditionally comes from small, family-run operations, is the forebear of tequila. By Liza Weisstuch Globe Correspondent,Updated February 23, 2021, 2:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Poitín is the precursor to Irish whiskey.courtesy of Glendalough Talk of Irish whiskey always gets louder this time of year. The spirit has seen galactic growth. In 2020, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, a trade organization, more than 5 million 9-liter cases of Irish whiskey were...

dateable artifacts. it's here until 1817 and it shifts to another location over there. what we've been finding are artifacts later than that date, it looks like it's coincidence. it's a later well. i think it's going to date probably to the mid 17th century. still a 350-year-old well. what we're doing, too, we're actually widening the well. it was a wooden barrel line or cast line well, we're widening the hole five feet if diameter to we can put a steel casing in here to protect as we go down. we have what, six more feet to go? six to eight more feet. >> even though this doesn't rela...

so i guarantee you i'm standing exactly a little deeper than she was, but this is where pocahontas stood when she got married. >> this saturday tour the james town colony dig with william kelso. since its rediscover, the colony has yielded 1.5 million artifacts. take the tour at 1:30 p.m. eastern. visit the lab at 2:00. then join in on the conversation with william kelso answering your questions live saturday at 2:30 p.m. eastern, part of american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. over the past year, c-span's local content vehicles city tour has taken book tv on the road from ta...