UCHS Band students excel!
Submitted by Shirlee Grabko on Mon, 04/22/2024 - 14:57There are many interesting people living in Union County. Some of them are senior citizens with fascinating tales to tell from their lives. I also discovered a couple of impressive people who are seniors at our Union County High School. I’ve known musicians most of my (long) life. Very seldom have I met one who also writes music. Landyn Hobbins has been doing this for years. He is a emotional writer who believes that music is something that everyone can relate to, and that music connects people - especially during emotional highs and lows.
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Fri, 12/13/2019 - 00:18
This weeks article.
It might have been better to have stayed with your cat and wife. I usually read your weekly articles and enjoy almost all of them. Since my first date was with Sharon McDonald I really enjoy when you mention her or Winnie. They both were really different characters in their own way. I always enjoy articles from school days from the past. Your graveyard stories are enjoyable. Since I go back almost to the dark ages I always like to read about people you encountered or have heard about from times past. My father was Horace Booker (born 1902) from Luttrell. Actually he grew up at the highway 61 beginning of Tater Valley. His connection with education occurred when he completed the 8th grade. The high school was still in the talking phase so he kept going back through the 8th grade for two more years so he would be ready for high school when it was started. The unusual thing about his high school days was that he was hired to teach at Luttrell Grammer school so he taught for 6 months and then went to high school for the last three months of the year and was able to make up the first 6 months and he did this for four years until he graduated from high school. as an aside one of his students was Willard (Sharp) Wolfenbarger that later became his wife and my mother. I think she was 15 and he was 28. My sisters were Marlene Orick and Janet (Owen) Moore. You may have known her as pianist at Maynardville Baptist Church. I directed music there for about 2 years in the sixties while I was a student at Carson Newman. I married Shirlene Needham in 1966 while I was teaching a combination of third and fifth graders in the gym which was the cafeteria with Jimmy Shumate teaching the eighth grade on the stage above my class seated on the gym floor level. i next taught elementary school music for two years in Anderson County. After teaching for three years I felt I had paid my debt to society and when into the insurance business. I hope you have enjoyed my musing. Keep on writing and maybe some day we will be able to enjoy one of your turkey dinners! Ha!
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