Bonnie Heiskell Peters will be signing books at the Thunder Road Authors’ Rally on September 8, 2018 from 9 am until 1 pm. She will be at the Days of the Pioneer Family Heritage Day on September 15, 2018, Hogskin History Day on September 29, 2018 and the Union County Heritage Festival on October 6, 2018. Look for her at these events. Bonnie’s new book is More Tales from the Hills and Hollows of East Tennessee.

Authors Cyn Taylor and Brooke Cox, along with other local authors, will sell and sign books at the Thunder Road Author Rally Saturday September 8, 2018 at the Maynardville Library. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Taylor is celebrating the launch of her third book in the Smoky Mountain Mist Series, Dawn’s Gray Light. There will be copies of book one in the series, Blue Mountain Sky, and book two in the series, Red Morning Glory, available as well.

As the departure of the summer season nears, autumn is slowly breezing in on the dewy sunrise mornings and early sunset evenings. It is well-known that attending the Annual Union County Heritage Festival is a kick-off to the magical fall season here in Union County. The festival attracts all realms of people as there are vendors, contests, foods, and demonstrations to meet every expectation.

A combination of enthusiastic 4-H members, sewing machines, and several summer afternoons results in fun, learning, and handmade items. This summer eight 4-Hers came together periodically in July and August at UT Extension Union County to learn how to use a sewing machine and fashion sewn articles.

Union Co. Career and Technical Education Department would like to congratulate these students for earning their OSHA 10 Certification. OSHA 10 is a 10 hour training course that teaches recognition, avoidance, abatement, and prevention of safety and health hazards in the workplace. Congratulations and thanks for the hard work.

Art makes our lives better. Art entertains us. Art heightens our self-awareness and our awareness of others. It helps us perceive complexity as pleasure and possibility not as irritating and uncertainty. Art records history and exemplifies past civilizations. Art has also been known to become a vice you can't let go of. I discovered this vice as a child and re-discovered it about 20-years ago doing decorative painting with acrylic paints and then falling in love with oil paints. Since then, I have been blessed to study with some of the finest artist in the United States.

Now that school has started, school lunches are in the spotlight again. If your kids carry their lunches, this is a good crisp cookie that won't break up before lunch.

Mincey’s Musings
Year One, Week Thirty-Four

I have been blessed with a wonderful family. I was born late in both my parents’ lives, so a great many of my relatives I only know about from stories as they died before I was born.

My job as a forester was a blessing to allow me to get out and enjoy the beauty of our woods and fields and get paid for it. But there were plants out there that would suck some of the joy of being outside. I’m talking about plants that can make you bleed because of their thorns; things like blackberry, escaped rose bushes, and my worst nemesis: sawbriars. I’ve come off wildfires with literally every square inch of my legs scratched from these painful vines.

Kyphosis is the forward curvature or “hunch” of the upper spine that sometimes occurs in older adults. Your chiropractor may use a type of spinal manipulation—also called a spinal adjustment—to improve joint motion. Spinal manipulation is an active, hands-on treatment, and there are multiple variations of this technique.