Cocke County Backdrop   I lived among Woods, Parks, Brooks, and Fords, sawdust, cocklebur, crawdads, squirrel-gut. Our trail had Blazers and Sparks stoked and soldering, clods hopping on brush fire. We were Raders, Bargers, and Fowlers, coughed up and burned out. Broken-boned Millers, Masons, Hoopers, and Smiths chased cattle, slipped shine, played rough. We raised […]

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