 | A WRITER'S WIT |  J. Agee |
MY JOURNEY OF STATES is a series in which I relate my sixty-year quest to visit all fifty states in the U.S. In each post I tell of my relationship to that state, whether brief or long, highlighting personal events. I include the year of each state's entry into the union and related celebrations. I hope you enjoy my journey as much as I have. This is the twenty-third post of fifty.
TENNESSEE (1974)
When my in-laws came to Lubbock, in 1974, to see their daughter receive her master’s degree from Texas Tech, they brought bags of money with them (well, it seemed like it), and the four of us drove to Washington, DC, where then wife and I interviewed for teaching jobs with the same district in Fairfax County, Virginia. We took I-40 for much of the way, through the long, slim state of Tennessee, spending one night there. By that time in August, it was cool and rainy, and we did no sightseeing: no Graceland, no Grand Ole Opry, no Hermitage. More the reason to go back one day.
Tennessee was the sixteenth state admitted to the union and celebrated its bicentennial in 1996. No wonder the people of Tennessee are so proud of their Vols. Their state goes back to the eighteenth century!
Tennessee was the sixteenth state admitted to the union and celebrated its bicentennial in 1996. No wonder the people of Tennessee are so proud of their Vols. Their state goes back to the eighteenth century!
historical postcards
If you missed earlier My Journey of States posts, please click on a link:
1-Kansas 13. New Jersey
2-Oklahoma 14. Delaware
3-Texas 15. New York
4-Louisiana 16. Connecticut
5-Missouri 17. Colorado
6-Illinois 18. Arkansas
7-Indiana 19. California
8-Ohio 20. Florida
9-Pennsylvania 21-Mississippi
10-West VA 22. New Mexico
11-Maryland
12. Virginia
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