What's REALLY going on around here?! (Cookeville, Jamestown: gated, work, house)

[hiknapster]

Thanks to EVERYONE of you. It just was way more than my doctor figured on. Is that no surprise? Firgures that I would give problems!!!

I am SURE that I will be fine!

But thanks to ALL of you!

But if you want to really know some great information, Fort Sanders Hospital in Knoxville is absolutely incredible. Our JMT recommended it to me, in his infintie wisdom!

And here is one more interesting fact, Miss Dolly Parton is building a hospital in Sevierville, her home town. She picked Fort Sanders as the hospital. That is how good it is. She's going to name it after the doctor that delivered her. I think her Daddy paid the doctor off in chickens or eggs or something. Her chapel in Dollywood is named after him, also.

Okay, enough. I could go on and on about Miss Dolly Parton.

[JMT]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

Thanks to EVERYONE of you. It just was way more than my doctor figured on. Is that no surprise? Firgures that I would give problems!!!

I am SURE that I will be fine!

But thanks to ALL of you!

But if you want to really know some great information, Fort Sanders Hospital in Knoxville is absolutely incredible. Our JMT recommended it to me, in his infintie wisdom!

And here is one more interesting fact, Miss Dolly Parton is building a hospital in Sevierville, her home town. She picked Fort Sanders as the hospital. That is how good it is. She's going to name it after the doctor that delivered her. I think her Daddy paid the doctor off in chickens or eggs or something. Her chapel in Dollywood is named after him, also.

Okay, enough. I could go on and on about Miss Dolly Parton.

Oh my gosh, hiknapster, I had no idea your surgery didn't go well. You and your family are certainly in my prayers. I'm worried about you!!

[Ridgerunner]

[quote=northcountrygirl;662432]

Originally Posted by daniellefort

Yes, unfortunately they do. I don't think that it matters,though, that the people on this forum sing TN's praises. Most of us who want to move there usually come down and find out for ourselves that it's a wonderful place to live. I only got to spend 4 days there but I fell in love in about a day and a half. The people I spoke to were wonderful, the country is beautiful and peaceful. Now I have shared PM's and e-mails with people on this forum, both native Tennesseans, people getting ready to go there and even people I have met that live in my own state that are either there or are going to be soon. I am now homesick for a place I've never had the incredible fortune to live. I have no choice but to move there now cause all my friends live in
Tennessee.

As far as people moving in and changing things. Every one of us have ancestors who came from someplace else, with the possible exception of Native Americans. If historical theory is correct even they came from somewhere else. It seems to me we came here and pushed the natives all the way to Canada and changed everything. It's apparently human nature. I think the only thing we can do is buy up as much of Tennessee as we can, really quickly, to preserve it before the ones who want to change it have a chance. That's what I want to do. Buy some acreage to keep it from being developed, and don't you dare touch one of my trees! We've got a rock up here in Massachussets where the whole thing started.

Anyway people on this forum brag about TN because they are so fiercely proud of it which makes me want to be a part of it and I don't think if they kept quiet it would matter. We can't hide TN under a blanket, they'd find it anyway. So hurry up and save and buy as much land as possible.

Hello, NCG. Most historians and anthropologists believe the first Americans came from Asia by crossing Bering Strait, the 58-mile wide channel between Russia and Alaska. Some scientists believe the strait was once frozen over. But this is a Tennessee forum, and in East Tennessee cave relics have been found suggesting that someone lived there at least 9,000 years ago. The first white man to visit what is now Tennessee was Hernando de Soto circa 1540.

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

Last week, I had a major operation that went very bad. I am THRILLED that I am still here with my beautiful daughter. To heck with that house. I am Here. I am here with her and in beautiful Tennessee. What the heck else do I really want?

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope things go well from now on and everything turns out just fine.

This isn't just a ploy to make us bring you some home-grown tomatoes and sweet corn, is it? :-)

[northcountrygirl]

[quote=Ridgerunner;666331]

Originally Posted by northcountrygirl

Hello, NCG. Most historians and anthropologists believe the first Americans came from Asia by crossing Bering Strait, the 58-mile wide channel between Russia and Alaska. Some scientists believe the strait was once frozen over. But this is a Tennessee forum, and in East Tennessee cave relics have been found suggesting that someone lived there at least 9,000 years ago. The first white man to visit what is now Tennessee was Hernando de Soto circa 1540.

Thank you Ridgerunner! I knew we could count on our resident historian. I appreciate your giving us the facts. Maybe Tennessee is really the cradle of life I LOVE history.

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by Ridgerunner

Hello, NCG. Most historians and anthropologists believe the first Americans came from Asia by crossing Bering Strait, the 58-mile wide channel between Russia and Alaska. Some scientists believe the strait was once frozen over. But this is a Tennessee forum, and in East Tennessee cave relics have been found suggesting that someone lived there at least 9,000 years ago. The first white man to visit what is now Tennessee was Hernando de Soto circa 1540.

See, even then they couldn't keep the northerners out! And when they got here they complained that they couldn't get a good lobster roll or New York stye pizza. That's what I've heard, at least. ;-)

Ridge, did you see the PBS program (Nova?) where the theory of the "first Americans" was being debated? It was interested, although the evidence is still scanty.

[hiknapster]

I am feeling much better now! I'm feeling so well that I managed to find my OWN Grainger County tomatoes.

Farmer's Markets should be opening up soon, don't you think? Anyone know?

And I'm, going to google that PBS show.

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

I am feeling much better now! I'm feeling so well that I managed to find my OWN Grainger County tomatoes.

Farmer's Markets should be opening up soon, don't you think? Anyone know?

And I'm, going to google that PBS show.

The PBS show concerned tools that had been found and dated in ancient sites that were of European nature; the theory being that some Europeans had actually arrived in North America prior to the wave of immigrants who crossed the ice bridge. There were basing a lot on one particular find as I recall. It was interesting.

Edited to add . . .

Ahhh, I googled and found it (I think):

http://www.amazon.com/NOVA-Americas-.../dp/B00067BC72 (this is the one I was thinking of involving the clovis point)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/first/ (I found this one while I was looking; I've seen it too and it's interesting as well).

[akm4]

I'm sorry to hear about your surgical adventure (misadventure?), but am very happy to hear you're back home and on the mend.

It's bad enough when it all goes smoothly.

I'm with you on the gratitude thing. We're in the middle of the whole real estate chaos- selling, buying, keeping all the balls in the air until they both close...etc. It's easy to think it's actually important sometimes, when all that really matters is that my family is fine and here with me.

Here's to a beautiful weekend on your couch with plenty of tomatoes and PBS

[Ridgerunner]

[quote=northcountrygirl;666634]

Originally Posted by Ridgerunner

Thank you Ridgerunner! I knew we could count on our resident historian. I appreciate your giving us the facts. Maybe Tennessee is really the cradle of life I LOVE history.

Hello again, Northcountrygirl. I am actually a Virginia native who became a Tennessean. Virginia is now celebrating the Jamestown colony's 400th anniversary. I love history more than banana pudding, and that's saying a lot.