Heard a classic video game theme song picked and strummed on classic guitar. Watched a young boy play fiddle on stage. Carol Bart poured her heart into a piano recital. Stopped to chat with George Webb, owner of Tennessee Books and Autographs.
Held a letter signed by John Sevier.
Bought "Kinflicks," a thinly-disguised expo-say that shocked and thrilled many residents of Kingsport decades ago; an inspiration for my next epic tome of navigating the ol' backwaters of Fort Patrick Henry's domain not far from Long Island?
From a copy of "The King's Mountain Men: the story of the battle, with sketches of the American soldiers who took part" by Kathrine Keough White, (c) 1924 Joseph K. Ruebush Company, Dayton, Virginia:
"Sawyers. John was born in Augusta county, Virginia, 1745, and died in Knox county, Tennessee, 1831. He was in Byrd's expedition and other border campaigns, and moved to the Holston about 1768. Sawyers fought in the Point Pleasant, Chickamauga,and King's Mountain campaigns, and was prominent in his adopted state. He was buried at the Washington Pike church. A history of the family has been published by Dr. M. M. Harris."
Received a free copy of the paperback, "The Overmountain Men" by Pat Alderman, (c) 1970, 1986, The Overmountain Press, Johnson City, Tennessee.
Stories of those times, which make historic the lives of people giving up, losing, taking and buying... what do I learn?
Who remembers Nancy Ward, the Cherokee mother and warrior, Ghighau (Beloved Woman), a superiour person on the tribal council?
Or Chief Dragging Canoe?
I have to think about this some more, lost in thought while enjoying the homemade persimmon square and apple stack cake, along with local muscadine grape juice, to consider how I want to present our species' part in the history of this planet to the rest of the galaxy.
We've all descended from someone. What does one someone mean in the grand scheme?
If Sawyers' fort is a memory, what does that mean to me?
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