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I just wandered by the Roane Heritage Society in the old Roane County Courthouse in Kingston.

What a treasure. Artifacts of every sort, including a ceremonial mask made of conch shell.

The pictures of the old Paddle wheelers are worth the trip and there was old man Rockwood, who started the iron mill and got a town named after him.

I wonder if Roane County has more traffic lights per capita than any other place on earth?

As I worked my way through Rockwood this morning I wondered why a street that is only two blocks long has a traffic light. Highway 70 crosses this entire country but it stops in Rockwood every 30 seconds or so just so people who drive those two blocks can cross.

There used to be 7 traffic lights to get through Rockwood and now there're at least 9, 10 if you count the one on 27 to get to Roane State Community College. We've got lights at Walmarts and grocery stores and I figure we only need about half the ones we have now.

Anyway, I decided that we may have to have some sort of contest to determine the most useless traffic light in Roane County.

Anybody have a candidate they want to campaign for?

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Kingston Skyline

This is on the monument to Kingston as Capital of the State of Tennessee for a day.

Kingston Plaque at old courthouse. We got to see the Harriman plaque so now it's Kingston's turn. I believe this one represents an out and out swindle of the indigenous tribes out of their land.

West Roane County Volunteer Fire Department Inventory and Work Day at Station#1 on Pumphouse Rd.--Volunteers welcome! For more information see: (link...)

Just show up, meet your neighbors, and have fun while helping out the fire department. If you can't get there by 8 AM, come along anyway when you can.

In front of the Temperence building in Harriman

I had an email about the banner photos at the top for RoaneViews. Choosing was a difficult task and I still may pester the RoaneViews IT Department into changing them a bit once I settle down.

I am a blogger "newbie", but I wish to help set the tone for this site to be thoughtful, so I am going to "steal" my first post. I know we think most times Corporate America is at the heart of what is wrong with our country, but every once in a while their marketing departments come up with little gems to reflect upon. This comes from an Apple Computer ad in the 1990's:

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