Travel to SPAIN with Sally in 2026!

by Sally Hendrick

I beat my head on the top edge of the crib until there are bruises.

It hurts, but it also feels good. My mind is exploding with curiosity. I don’t want to nap. I want to be out in the kitchen with the light on.

But darkness envelops me.

Don’t close the door. Leave it cracked a...

When someone finds a registry with the name of an ancestor who owned slaves, it gives the fuel needed to keep researching and writing to uncover more.

The practice in southern, white families in West Tennessee (and likely most of the confederate south) was to suppress as much history as possible by...

Throughout Sudie’s early life was a horrendous feud between two families, Sudie’s grandparents’ families. Her uncle Bob Craddock killed Sheriff A.J. Collinsworth by hitting him with a grubbing hoe. The sheriff was his uncle and Sudie’s great-uncle through her father’s mother, Susan Jane Collinsworth...

The editor's father, Kimbrough Dunlap, wrote this story in the late 1980's or early 1990's. She has rediscovered his research and has been going through it to help her write her historical fiction novel, Humble Pie.

by Kimbrough Dunlap

Humboldt is a rural west Tennessee town located on the cross...