Category Archives: Tennessee

RIP Stanley Crouch

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

Stanley Crouch came to speak at Sewanee in the mid-2000s as part of the “How Then Shall We Live?” series. Below is the author picture he sent. When I picked him up at the Nashville airport, he emerged from the … Continue reading →

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Protected: Private: Myth Spr 20: Theseus

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Victoria in Tennessee

Posted on August 25, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

This is the Bethel Church in Victoria, Tennessee, located off Old Highway 28. The image above is taken from this Flickr page, which lists this comment from Tim Holloway in 2013: A man named John Frater built this church for … Continue reading →

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Protected: USA Today: “Grundy Worst County in TN”

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

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Abbo’s Alley & German POWS

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

That some of Abbo’s Alley was laid out during WWII by German POWs is something I’ve often heard, but seen little documentary evidence. Below is what I’ve found. New York Times July 1, 1984, Section 10, Page 25: To the Editor: Thanks very much … Continue reading →

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Tim’s Ford notes

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

This is just a page on which I intend to stick things I find out about Tim’s Ford lake. Other links:  

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Moorman twins & Normandy

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

If you have been over to the University Counsel’s office in Walsh-Ellett Hall in Sewanee, you have seen probably the portrait of the Moorman twins from the early 1930s. (I’ll load an image of it when I get back over … Continue reading →

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The Banquet of Crassus: Politics, Myth, and Ritual

Posted on December 27, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

Below is the abstract of a paper I delivered at the American Philological Association (now the Society for Classical Studies) way back in January 2002 in Philadelphia (I will confess to having found the abstract here, which I’m glad for, since … Continue reading →

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Pulvis et Umbra

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

A final shot from Mine 21, a beautiful image of miners’ headlamps which flicker like stars about to go out. Nos ubi decidimus quo pater Aeneas, quo dives Tullus et Ancus, pulvis et umbra sumus. –Horace, Odes 4.7.14-16 When we … Continue reading →

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Head-copping

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

An evening or two ago, I stopped into Mooney’s, the great little local market just on the border between Sewanee and Monteagle, to pick up some garlic powder. I had paid for it, when it occurred to me that I … Continue reading →

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