B.A.M.A.: Sweet Home Alabama

We know Alabama is a-ways from East TN and western NC but we're really liking Sweet Home Alabama by this group BAMA. We caught 'em on the Jeff Foxworthy special on Comedy Central. So check them: Vision Records- BAMA

Where the heck have I been? Two books on our Eastern Cherokee family, community roots

Lately I've been writing at Marian's Blog (on typepad), and contributing to Johnson City Forum, also here on Blogger/Blogspot. I just got my copies of east Tennessee writer Vicki Rozema's Footsteps of the Cherokees: Guide to the Eastern Homelands of the Cherokee Nation, and her newest book, Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East, both available from John F. Blair, Publisher, in Winston-Salem, NC. It's not a good thing for a region - western NC & East TN - to be so totally divorced from its roots and its history. Not to mention our true ethnic identity. Will I make it to the Tennessee family reunion in July? I'm going to do my best.