{"id":195,"date":"2021-08-12T16:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/?p=195"},"modified":"2021-08-13T16:38:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T16:38:54","slug":"josephines-journal-a-local-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/josephines-journal-a-local-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Josephine&#8217;s Journal, a Local Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Emily McCoramick Sells writes &#8220;Josephine&#8217;s Journal&#8221; as a column for the <em>Overton County News<\/em>.&nbsp; The blog is filled with stories, memories, and photos from the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/josephinesjournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to wander through Ms. Sells&#8217; musings.&nbsp; Be sure to read her <em>About<\/em> page before you read the posts.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss the <em>Archives<\/em> listing of articles from Ms. Sells previous blog.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/josephinesjournal.com\/archives.htm#Articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to go directly to the prior blog articles, whose intriguing titles include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Memories of Willow Grove, Part 2<\/li>\n<li>Memories of Willow Grove<\/li>\n<li>Uncle Rob\u2019s Manuscripts<\/li>\n<li>The Doll in the School Picture<\/li>\n<li>The Story of Two Brides<\/li>\n<li>A Picture Without a Frame<\/li>\n<li>The Story of Fala Roosevelt<\/li>\n<li>Tornado of 1974<\/li>\n<li>Remembering Will J.<\/li>\n<li>Once upon a Time in Byrdstown<\/li>\n<li>Finding the Girl Who Liked the Name Candy<\/li>\n<li>Cowboy Star Visits Allons School<\/li>\n<li>Bob Riley and the Bootlegger<\/li>\n<li>Unusual Bedtime Stories<\/li>\n<li>A Family with Twenty-Three Children<\/li>\n<li>History of the Overton County Railroad<\/li>\n<li>When Highway 42 Was just a Graveled Road<\/li>\n<li>Asleep on a Church Pew and Other Stories<\/li>\n<li>From Annapolis to Alpine &#8211; the Life of Ada Jones Hancock<\/li>\n<li>The Life of Joe W. Vaughn and wife Clementine McCormick Vaughn<\/li>\n<li>The Story of Twofeathers<\/li>\n<li>Vastine Little Encounters Jesse James<\/li>\n<li>Allons, Tennessee &#8211; The Original Choice for the Atomic City?<\/li>\n<li>Gee-Haw-Whimmy-Diddle<\/li>\n<li>The Town once Known as Standing Stone, TN<\/li>\n<li>From Shiloh to Metro &#8211; The Diane Vaughn Story<\/li>\n<li>Have You Ever?<\/li>\n<li>The Carroll Robbins Story<\/li>\n<li>Memories from the Past 100 Years<\/li>\n<li>Will J. Remembers<\/li>\n<li>Unusual Tombstones<\/li>\n<li>Historic Landmark in Taylors Crossroads Closes<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Thomas A. Langford<\/li>\n<li>George Allen Knight<\/li>\n<li>Tammi Thiele &#8211; a Graveyard Rabbit<\/li>\n<li>History of Bethlehem Methodist Church<\/li>\n<li>The Martins of the Oakley Community<\/li>\n<li>The Little Green Book of Memories<\/li>\n<li>The Alvin Cullom House at Monroe<\/li>\n<li>Growing up on Bloomington Road<\/li>\n<li>The Story of Kate Bradford Stockton &#8211; 1880-1969<\/li>\n<li>A Penny Post Card<\/li>\n<li>A Family that Loved to Read<\/li>\n<li>Walthall Family Victims of Kidnapping in 1957<\/li>\n<li>Melting of Heavy Snowfall in February of 1929 Floods Celina<\/li>\n<li>The Log House LeNora Built &#8211; Part Two<\/li>\n<li>1957 Eighth Grade Class Trip<\/li>\n<li>On the Road with the Rockettes<\/li>\n<li>Whatever Happened to Joyce Hicks?<\/li>\n<li>The History of the Shirt Factory<\/li>\n<li>A Hole in His Billfold<\/li>\n<li>Christmas &#8217;09<\/li>\n<li>They just Happened To Be Passing By<\/li>\n<li>Growing up on Peach Tree Tea<\/li>\n<li>Living Through the Great Depression<\/li>\n<li>The Carpenter Who Made Cup Cakes<\/li>\n<li>Livingston College and Cordell Hull Junior College<\/li>\n<li>The Paper Boys of Livingston<\/li>\n<li>A Great-Granddaughter of Ranter Jess<\/li>\n<li>Janice, the Interpreter<\/li>\n<li>A Horseshoe and a Rock<\/li>\n<li>The Log Home LeNora Built<\/li>\n<li>Ring Fairy Mushrooms<\/li>\n<li>A Kentucky Farm Girl<\/li>\n<li>Hammer, Nails, Pencil and Paper &#8211; The Jim Loftis Story<\/li>\n<li>Heirloom Apple Trees<\/li>\n<li>My Story &#8211; By Arnold H. Sells<\/li>\n<li>Lucy Frances Mitchell<\/li>\n<li>East Broad Street Memories &#8211; 1920&#8217;s Through 1940&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Hog Killing Time on the Qualls Farm<\/li>\n<li>Boyhood Memories by Frank R. Lewis<\/li>\n<li>School Days at Lone Maple<\/li>\n<li>Talmadge and Gentry Qualls<\/li>\n<li>No Laughing at the Table<\/li>\n<li>The Copeland House on Spring Street<\/li>\n<li>Live on Radio Station WLIV &#8230; It&#8217;s the Sullivan Brothers Show!<\/li>\n<li>Memories of Mammy Maddox<\/li>\n<li>Memories of Hardy and Vian Keisling of Hatcher Hall<\/li>\n<li>The Vargulish Family<\/li>\n<li>The Sidwell Home Moved to New Location<\/li>\n<li>The Apple Stack Cake Lady from Double Top<\/li>\n<li>He Was More than just the Mailman<\/li>\n<li>The Only Thing I Ever Stole Was Your Mama<\/li>\n<li>He Asked Her To Dance<\/li>\n<li>I Didn\u2019t Know We Were Poor<\/li>\n<li>Growing up on High Street in Livingston<\/li>\n<li>He Says He Was a Fifth Grade Drop Out<\/li>\n<li>She Striped His Legs with a Thorn Bush<\/li>\n<li>Area Descendants of Eastern Cherokees<\/li>\n<li>From England to Livingston, Tennessee &#8211; A Journey To Connect<\/li>\n<li>Memories of the Mitchell Wedding<\/li>\n<li>The Class of &#8217;63 is 63<\/li>\n<li>East Cedar Street &#8211; a Great Place to Grow Up<\/li>\n<li>From Joppa to Daukuskie Island<\/li>\n<li>Poverty Is no Excuse<\/li>\n<li>Nine Flat Tires on the Way to Jamestown<\/li>\n<li>A Simple Act of Kindness<\/li>\n<li>Born a Slave<\/li>\n<li>Recalling the 1950&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Her Mother Was a Peddler<\/li>\n<li>Never Put off Until Tomorrow &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Breeding Home<\/li>\n<li>Growing Up in Windle, Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>The Mofield House<\/li>\n<li>Wilbur C. and Anna Lee Smith<\/li>\n<li>In Memory of Private William Jason Ramsey<br \/>\nObituaries from the Past<\/li>\n<li>The Mahan Family of Putnam County, TN<\/li>\n<li>Blue Cornflowerst<\/li>\n<li>Memories of Jolly Creek<\/li>\n<li>Sells Brothers Circus<\/li>\n<li>Dr, John T. McDonald<\/li>\n<li>The Disappearance of Josiah Erwin (Cy) McDonald<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Rose and Billy Morgan Garrett<\/li>\n<li>The Friendship Quilt<\/li>\n<li>Mary Helen Apple and Her Horses<\/li>\n<li>The Rinky Dinks of Roberts Street<\/li>\n<li>Historic Bowman Home<\/li>\n<li>Robinson Crusoe Buck (2)<\/li>\n<li>Book Signing<\/li>\n<li>Judge L. D. 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World War II Letters<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Roy Harvey&#8217;s Wagon Ride<\/li>\n<li>Sammie&#8217;s Story<\/li>\n<li>Creek Glass<\/li>\n<li>Ray and Eva Swallows<\/li>\n<li>Stanley and Geneva Carter<\/li>\n<li>The History of Dale Hollow Lake<\/li>\n<li>Parrott&#8217;s Tourist Camp<\/li>\n<li>The Jumpin&#8217; off Place<\/li>\n<li>Agnes Knight Campbell<\/li>\n<li>Sears and Roebuck Mail Order Homes<\/li>\n<li>Rebekkah&#8217;s Story<\/li>\n<li>Andy Holt<\/li>\n<li>Captain Kangaroo<\/li>\n<li>Susan Harris Pangle<\/li>\n<li>Taylor&#8217;s Crossroads Quilt and the Presbyterian Church<\/li>\n<li>Livingston&#8217;s Native American Indians<\/li>\n<li>Trooper Island<\/li>\n<li>The Hubble Space Telescope<\/li>\n<li>Annie and Bush Taylor<\/li>\n<li>Missing in Action &#8211; The Columbus Hooks Story<\/li>\n<li>Anna Jane (Barnes) Carr<\/li>\n<li>King&#8217;s Grist Mill<\/li>\n<li>A Good Time To Grow Up<\/li>\n<li>Carl Copeland and His Grandson&#8217;s Lawn Service<\/li>\n<li>Coalinga Football<\/li>\n<li>Jack and Lynn Stoddart<\/li>\n<li>A Good Mother<\/li>\n<li>Luther and Bell Harris<\/li>\n<li>South Church Street<\/li>\n<li>Bascum and Juanita Swack<\/li>\n<li>The Buckeye Family<\/li>\n<li>Class of 1953<\/li>\n<li>Grandparents<\/li>\n<li>Scott and Rebecca&#8217;s Wedding<\/li>\n<li>Class of 1963<\/li>\n<li>Claude Ramsey<\/li>\n<li>Boat Racing<\/li>\n<li>Don White<\/li>\n<li>Myrna Holman<\/li>\n<li>Charlie and Dessie Bilbrey<\/li>\n<li>Barbara McConnell<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Qualls<\/li>\n<li>Agnes Sells<\/li>\n<li>Auda Ledbetter and Her Alphabet<\/li>\n<li>Roy and Linda Riser<\/li>\n<li>Randall Dulworth<\/li>\n<li>The Murphy Girls<\/li>\n<li>Grace Bilbrey and Otis Ledbetter School Days at Henard<\/li>\n<li>The Cedar View Inn<\/li>\n<li>The Sewell House near Burkesville, Ky<\/li>\n<li>The Dugan Smith House<\/li>\n<li>John and Jean Hunter<\/li>\n<li>U.L. and Emogene Ledbetter<\/li>\n<li>George and Maggie Wright<\/li>\n<li>Christmas Memories<\/li>\n<li>Comer and Annie Burks Family<\/li>\n<li>Charlie Pop and Lola Poindexter Store<\/li>\n<li>The Strawberry Festival<\/li>\n<li>Miss Conway Lea (3)<\/li>\n<li>The George E. 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