By George, I think I’ve got him!

The Tennessee Public School Diploma of George Anderson Taylor of the Mason community was recently donated to the Tipton County Museum, by John W. Marshall, Esq., which intrigued me to learn more about George’s life. I decided to do a bit of research on George Anderson Taylor, believing his middle name of Anderson would makeContinue reading “By George, I think I’ve got him!”

The Past Revisited

The challenges we’re facing today because of COVID-19 are not altogether new for Americans. We’ve dealt with mass sickness before and many in our community are finding it difficult to find the items they need for their families just as they did during World War II. If you ask anyone who remembers life during WWContinue reading “The Past Revisited”

The need to laugh… America’s first comic strip

At the turn of the century, life was getting a bit easier. Gone were the frontier days. Cars had been invented, electricity was becoming more common, and telephones were just about used everywhere. Just having won the Spanish-American War, America had established itself as a world power and it’s cities reflected the diverse influx ofContinue reading “The need to laugh… America’s first comic strip”