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The Tellico Times

Online Newspaper For Tellico Plains

Vol. 4, No. 5

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May  2002

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Solomon's Mine?
River of Dreams
Frog & Speedy
Christmas Parade
Candlelight Walk
Gallery Walk
Osama's Beard
Uncle Clabe
Sun Myth
News Briefs
National News

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High Places:
Hiking Citico
Tellico Trails
Campfire Recipes
TN Fishing & Hunting
FS Burn Schedule

Local History:
Affair At Toqua
Tennessee
Tellico History
Reenactments
Coker Creek History
Old Photos

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:
The Old Schoolhouse
Frog & Speedy
Old Christmas
This Old Barn
Candle Making
Moon Planting

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Nothing But Net: Computer Links Computer Tips

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Introduction
Greetings Everyone...Welcome to the May 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. We change something daily and  we post news items as they happen after verifying facts. 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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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.

Towee Falls in Coker Creek.

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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. .

TODAY IN HISTORY
May 22nd.
0012 -BC- A daytime meteor shower, possibly Zeta Perseid observed in China.
1570 - 1st atlas, with 70 maps, published.
1843 - 1st wagon train, 1000+ departs Independence MO for Oregon.
1888 - Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers.
1906 - Wright Brothers patent an aeroplane
1927 - 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed.
1933 - Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay.
1943 - 1st jet fighter is tested.
1955 - Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th.
1961 - 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Space Needle in Seattle), opens.
1985 - US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR.
1992 - Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of the Tonight Show.

 

The Sam McCall Family.

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: 

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.

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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