This song was written and played for President Harry S. Truman on his visit to Tullahoma on June 25th, 1951. It was sung by The Old Hiskory Quartette. It was written by Alan Gray and M. Campbell President Truman visited Tullahoma for the opening of Arnold Air Force Base. From wiki In 1949, Congress authorized $100 million for the construction of the Air Engineering Development Center. A site was selected for the new center at the Army’s old...

September 10   This morning we put out food for our feeders and sat on the deck for just a few minutes before three hummingbirds came down to visit. I was able to get my new Canon 400mm L 5.6 on the tripod and took this shots before they traveled on. Getting the hand of this new lens, which did awesome at the Memphis zoo (be sure and check out those pictures too).   Hummingbirds in the Back Yard Hummingbirds shot on Sept 10,...

We had a great time at the Memphis Zoo over Labor Day Weekend. It was very hot in Memphis but we got lucky in that so many of the animals were active. This was our first trip to the Memphis Zoo and it was one of the best for types of animals (but ranked much lower for friendly staff, clean restrooms, and food). All of the shots that you see in this article was shot with my Canon 7D with the Canon 400mm L 5.6 I took most of the shots using a...

With Jack’s birthday falling on a Wednesday, we decided to find something close to home to visit. Jack of course picked the Nashville Zoo…so off we went. Did I mention it was 97 today? yeah it as hot. Some of the things we saw today View photos at...

Hot but not as hot as usual, Humidity was up as normal and the luke warm RC was flowing (I grabbed a colder Sundrop) The “parade” was late starting although the announcer said it was on time according to Bell Buckle time. We say a WWII vet (who almost took Jack’s head off with a flag throw) and some old cars and fire truck. We also saw Mrs Tennessee and Mrs United States (who knew???) and the Queen of the day was Anne Holt of...