Tennessee’s popular Showcase event leads the way “Going to the fair” has been a tried-and-true tradition for generations of Tennesseans…
Author: Jerry Kirk
Jerry Kirk
For more than 40 years, Jerry Kirk, a native of Whitesburg in East Tennessee, edited statewide membership publications that went to members of farm supply and electric cooperatives across Tennessee. He’s the retired manager of the Communications Department at Tennessee Farmers Cooperative in LaVergne, where he was editor of the Tennessee Cooperator. For a couple of years in the mid-1980s, he was also editor of The Tennessee Magazine. Jerry, a native of Whitesburg in East Tennessee, is married to the former Jane Downing of Pikeville. Their son, Chris Kirk, is associate editor of The Tennessee Magazine.
As a retired cooperative communicator who’ll celebrate his 80th birthday on April 6 of next year, I was flattered when…
Remains of state’s first Baptist minister and his family are reinterred at Whitesburg in East Tennessee Count me among the…
Maggi Vaughn offers two books of poems and pictures After an unusually cold winter that, frankly, was tasking at times,…