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The Tellico Times

Online Newspaper For Tellico Plains

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Vol. 4, No. 12

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December 2002

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News & Events:
Gooseman's Likker
Solomon's Mine?
John A. Murrell
Vonore Gold
Mud Gap
Rafter Road
River of Dreams
Frog & Speedy
Uncle Clabe

Sun Myth

Osama's Beard
Election Results
News Briefs
National News

Community:
Events Calendar    Community Forum
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Local Churches Tellico Information Submit Events

High Places:
Hiking Citico
Forest Service Page
Tellico Trails

Campfire Recipes
TN Fishing & Hunting
FS Burn Schedule

Local History:
Affair At Toqua
Tennessee
Tellico History

John A. Murrell
 Vonore Gold
 Mud Gap

Reenactments
Coker Creek History
Old Photos

More History

Cherokee History: Legend Of Tsali
Cherokee Myths
The White Chief  Emperor Moytoy
Sun Myth
Lodge Of The Chief

Sports:
Local Racing

Tellico Schedules
Tellico Scores

Country Roads:
Gooseman's Likker
The Old Schoolhouse
Frog & Speedy

Old Christmas
Christmas Parade
 Candlelight Walk
 Gallery Walk

This Old Barn
Candle Making
Moon Planting

Kids Stuff:
Just For Kids Links

Nothing But Net: Computer Links Computer Tips

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Fiction of Jack Darnell
Photos by Lady Gadiva

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Clowns on Parade.

The Tellico Plains 2002 Christmas Parade Sat., December 14th. 

Introduction
Greetings Everyone...Welcome to the December  issue of The Tellico Times, an online supplement to The Tellico Plains Mountain Press. The Tellico Plains Mountain Press can be accessed at www.telliquah.com.
We appreciate all of you looking in, be sure to come back often. We are adding a lot of new content as time goes by. Be sure to check out the News Briefs page for current news. Please view our Free Classified page and our paid Advertisers pages and the Business Directory. They make it possible for us to bring you the Tellico Times. Page links are on the left of the page.  Check the Community Forum Page for local comments and people wanting information about relatives, and info on Tellico Plains. The Tellico Times is brought to you by Tellico Printing &
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  Puppets on Parade, Pastor Rick Atkins of New Providence Baptist Church in Tellico Plains.

Santa at the 2002 Tellico Plains Christmas Parade.
 

Local News & Events
Watch this section for local news and happenings. Also features on all those local characters that live in and around the area. We hope to include as much coverage on our town and county as possible. We will always give an independent and unbiased viewpoint! Email or contact us anytime.

 

View From Starr Mountain Looking Toward Etowah & Englewood.
From FS Trail #190 Leading into Gee Creek Wilderness.

Forest Service Info Page

High Places
This section of the Times will bring you news, photos and information about the Cherokee National Forest and the surrounding natural beauty of Southeast Tennessee. Hiking and camping spots, trail information and hunting and fishing schedules and the weather for the Tellico District. .


 

 

 

 

 


 United States Of
 America
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TODAY IN HISTORY
December 25th.
0001 - 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus.
0337 - Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec, 25.
1066 - William the Conqueror, crowned king of England.
1741 - Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature scale.
1758 - Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return.
1831 - Louisiana & Arkansas are 1st states to observe Christmas as holiday.
1837 - Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians.
1862 - 40,000 watch the Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC.
1868 - Despite bitter opposition, President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion. (the Civil War)
1959 - Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market.
1974 - Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia.
1987 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured.
1989 - Japanese scientist achieves
-271.8ºC, coldest temp ever recorded.

 

Pastoral Scene in the Rural Vale Community. Mocking Crow Mountain in the Background.

Local History
Over the past 13 years the Tellico Plains Mountain Press brought you many history articles and photos from Tellico Plains. In this issue we include an article that was in a past  printed issue: 

 


 

Fall Color Along The Cherohala Skyway in November.

 

Kayaking the Tellico River.

Recreation & Sports

Check here for coverage of outdoor recreation events and Tellico Plains sports and Sequoyah Youth sports. Anyone wishing to submit photos or information or articles, feel free to do so.

Country lane in Ballplay Community.

Uncle Clabe & The Pant'er
The Old Schoolhouse

Frog & Speedy
River of Dreams

 

 

 

 

 


Country Roads

Here we will display photography from along the roadsides of our special part of East Tennessee. Photos depicting the slow paced country lifestyle, things caught in passing on an afternoon drive. Everything from old barns and buildings to those unique road signs that dot the countryside. Things which disappear with every passing year...

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Be sure to contact us if you have any information, articles or photos you want to submit, or story ideas. We look forward to hearing from everyone..

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