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By KEN BECK Special to The Wilson Post These teenagers hear the siren call of the Seven Seas, but they’ll settle for the nearby waters of Old Hickory Lake. Lebanon High School students David Crawley, James Crawley, Sam Rule, Cory Walker and Jame...
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After being mildly disappointed last weekend with "The A-Team," I decided to give the underdog movie that toppled "The A-Team" at the box office last weekend a look. "The Karate Kid" is the re-make of the very popular orig...
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By Ray Pope It’s too hot to be out in the sun. So, I waited till about 6 o’clock Sunday evening to work in the garden. Overhead I was serenaded by about 20 Purple Martins that were gorging on insects as they wheeled and turned. Peggy Carv...
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By Angel Kane The last few days the ladies of Wilson Living Magazine have been hard at work putting the finishing touches on the July/August Issue. It’s our “Red, White & Blue” celebration issue. In it we celebrate our cou...
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To the Editor: I recently attended the 2010 Convening the Region Summit hosted by Cumberland Region Tomorrow (CRT), the Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and the Tennessee Department of Transportation. For the ...
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By GEORGE ROBERTSON, M.D. Don’t you hate it when you hear that crunching thud noise under your car when you see a squirrel darting across the road in front of you? Driving in to work the other day, I saw a squirrel duck under the car at a fatal...
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By SUSAN SCOTT DART Volunteer Love animals? Want to help during a disaster? Well, you can combine those two elements by becoming a trained member of the Wilson County DART, the Disaster Animal Response Team. What is a Disaster Animal Response T...
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By ANNE DONNELL I was shocked by a recent defense offered by an office seeker in another part of the country. He defended his lies by saying he “misspoke.” What’s your take on this? -An Honest Reader Still maintaining ...
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By CLARENCE E. HILL One sure way to light up The American Legion’s switchboards is for an overzealous homeowners association to ban the display of Old Glory within its community. While these disturbing incidents seem to be on the rise in recent ...
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By KEN BECK Special to The Wilson Post CAVE CITY, Ky.—A myriad of shining attractions may snare your eye in Kentucky’s cave country, but none sparkles brighter than the marvelous Magaline Meredith. Inside Magaline’s Antique Mall on C...
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Well the heat has been turned up outside! And just when some of the summer's hottest movies are hitting theaters, it sure makes it a great time to sit back and relax in the well air-conditioned ROXY theater and take in a few. This past weeken...
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On Saturday, after a long day of swimming, Neill and Jackson (Becky’s son) raced inside to find me. Neill: “Mama, can I go to Jackson’s house for dinner?” Jackson: “Please, please can he come?” I looked at the sunb...
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What a busy week at Wilson Living. We spent most of the week putting final touches on our Political and Americana themed July/August issue. Readers will not only get to know each of the three candidates running for Wilson County Mayor, you will a...
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Dear Ken: Regarding the legendary singer Lena Horne, who recently passed, did she make many movies? The silky-voiced Horne, who died May 9 at age 92, appeared in numerous films as a singer but only acted in a hand full of films between 1938 and 1978. H...
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By SAM HATCHERYears ago a very ambitious group of local African-Americans decided to set out on a mission to publish a book about Black history in Wilson County.Their task consumed many months.They interviewed families, gathered notes, requested photograp...
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By GEORGE ROBERTSON, M.D.I was on the second floor balcony of the June Bee motel when all of a sudden the pages turned on my writing paper upsetting a bottle of pills on the mildewed table where I perched overlooking the ocean. It would’ve been a sc...
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By Commissioner GERALD NICELYTennessee Department of TransportationIt's a frightening sight most Tennesseans will never forget - a portable classroom swept away by floodwaters floating down Interstate 24 in Nashville, crashing into dozens of vehicles ...
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By SAM HATCHER I'm sure Tennessee Gov. Gordon Browning accomplished much while serving in office first from 1937 to 1939 and then again from 1949 to 1953. But for all the years he served he is best remembered and frequently quoted as...
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By ANNE DONNELL The quote in the headline last week (“To err is human…”) is correctly attributed to Alexander Pope. (1688-1744. English poet and satirist. Major works are Essay on Man, Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, Dunci...
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By GEORGE ROBERTSON, M.D. Being in medicine, I am continually bombarded by rules and regulations from all sides. For an older practitioner, being able to remember the days without all those rules is a bitter pill to swallow, if I can use an old clich&...
