From 45 Jersey Cows to One of the Southeast's Favorite Dairy Brands
In 1910, when T.B. Mayfield decided to purchase 45 Jersey cows and begin delivering milk to his hometown of Athens, TN, he could not have imagined that he was launching what would become one of the Southeast’s leading dairy brands. Nor could he have realized how that particular decision would set a tone for the company which, Mayfield Dairy Farms leaders say, still guides it to this day. “Back ...
Bob Elmore: Boyhood, The Teens, Jobs And School (5th Excerpt)
Jack Miller invited me to go with him on a ‘bone hunt’ when I was ten. He suggested that we get a skull and crossbones for a clubhouse. We went to Shepherd Hills (also known as Ridgeside) to Jimmy Cole’s house. Jimmy took us behind his house to an apparently abandoned cemetery. Soon we found a knee cap. Later we found an entire skeleton (but not altogether). We took the skull and crossbones ...
Henry Gardner's Drive-in was located on Brainerd Road at North Howell Avenue. Click to enlarge.
Books By John Wilson
