In October 2018, Hurricane Michael and its Category 5 winds inflicted tremendous destruction to Florida, causing an estimated $18.4 billion in damage and an eventual 50 deaths in the state. More than a year later, human communities in the state’s [...]
In 2016, Bob Gasche joked about besting fellow World War II veteran and former President George H.W. Bush. They had both went skydiving in old age, “but he was on his 90th birthday,” Gasche told me in an interview that [...]
Songbirds Guitar Museum — opened in 2017 in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee — has more than 1,700 fretted instruments in its collection, touted as the world’s largest private one specifically of rare and vintage guitars. The collection’s value: more than $200 [...]
Bob Gasche, a Marine corporal who served in World War II, including in the Battle of Iwo Jima, and later in the Korean War, died July 30 at age 94. He was a private in the 5th Marine Division when [...]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ 1938 classic “The Yearling” tells of the small Baxter family living off land and animal in rural, forested Florida, long before today’s development, comforts, or conveniences. Around them are (mostly) amiable neighbors, the elements, a country doctor, [...]
Veteran journalist Bob Woodward used hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources and an abundance of documents in his research for his latest book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” a thorough, critical, often-embarrassing look into the lead up to [...]
Chattanooga of all places to have this — I had no idea it was even a thing, let alone the…