Tennessee Trivia No. 1

Sixty-seven short stories compiled by lawyer-historian, Jerry Summers, about lesser known but interesting persons, places and events in the Volunteer state, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States of America. Featured are famous movie stars, aviators and athletes; medal of honor winners and military heroes; honored judges and civil servants; notorious gangsters and crooks; political intrigues and scandalous events; and curious places once famous but now obscure. Contains 49 photographs.

Section 1 - PERSONS   

Grace Moore - Tennessee Nightingale

Tom Mix & Jobyna Raulston-Arlens

 South Pittsburgh's Silent Movie Stars

Dinah Shore - Winchester & McMinnville's Movie Star

Peggy Dow - Athens, Tennessee Movie Star

Nellie Kenyon - Chattanooga News Reporter Extraordinaire

Drue Smith - Woman Pioneer In Journalism And Media

Ralph McGill - Soddy's Civil Rights Advocate

John N. Popham, III - Chattanooga's Iconic Newspaperman

Charles Bartlett - Pulitzer Prize Winner

Anna Mae Clift - The Soddy Girl and the Memphis Belle

Martin W. Littleton - Rags to Riches lawyer

Judge Sue K. Hicks - A Boy Named Sue

John R. Neal - Scopes Eccentric Lawyer

Al Capone - Monteagle's Most Notorious Visitor

Herschel P. Franks - Longest Serving State Judge

Frank W. Wilson - Federal District Judge Number One

David McKendree Key - Chattanooga's 1st Federal District Judge

Tennessee's U.S. Supreme Court Justices

Ellis K. Meacham - Author and Judge

Sgt. Alvin York - When Sergeant York Came to Chattanooga

Ray Eugene Duke - Whitwell's Medal of Honor Hero

Raymond H. Cooley - Medal of Honor - Dunlap

Charles "Duke" Pearman - Korean War POW

Raymond Prater - Audie Murphy's Chattanooga Connection

William Emerson Brock, Sr. - A Democrat in the Brock Family

Carey Estes Kefauver - Chattanooga's Congressman and Senator

Nathan Lynn Bachman - Chattanooga's Beloved Senator

Thomas Jefferson Anderson - Baylor School's Presidential Candidate   

Jim Cummings, I.D. Beasley & Walter "Pete" Haynes - Tennessee's Unholy Trinity

John R. Neal - Scopes Eccentric lawyer

Pioneer Women Attorneys

Bryon De La Beckweth - Signal Mountain's Infamous Resident

Charles Lindbergh - When "Lucky Lindy" Landed in Chattanooga

Phillip R. Love - The Other Plane and Pilot at Marr Field

Jim T. Fitzgerald - South Pittsburg's Sound Barrier Breaker

Joseph C. White - Chattanooga's Tuskegee Airman

Harry G. Porter - Daredevil & Aviator

Joe Engel - Barnum of Baseball

Willie Six - Sewanee's African American Gentleman   

Lon Varnell - Sewanee's Coaching Showman   

The Majors - Tennessee Football Family

John Wilkes Booth - At Sewanee

Dr. William Gorgas - And the Panama Canal

Section 2 - PLACES

Burritt College   - Pioneer of the Cumberlands

Beersheba Springs - Mountain Resort

Chattanooga's Law School

American Temperance University - Harriman, Tennessee

Camp Crossville - World War II

The Crosses at Sewanee

Marr Field - How Marr Field became Lovell Field

Chamberlain Field - Turkey Day Football

Chattanooga Cherokees - Chattanooga's Professional Football Team

Roller Derby - Chattanooga's Skaters

Stock Car Racing History - Chattanooga's Contributors

Wrestling or "Rassling" in Chattanooga

Soap Box Derby - Chattanooga's Non-Motorized NASCAR

Sewanee Football - SEC to Division III

Section 3 - EVENTS

Chattanooga's Cotton Ball

Tennessee Adoption Scandal

Copperhill-McCaysville Adoption Scandal

Chattanooga Divorce Mill Scandal

Moonshine Feud - Daisy Mountain #1

Moonshine Feud - Daisy Mountain #2

Battle of Athens - McMinn County War

Christmas Night Massacre - South Pittsburg   

Whitwell Mine Disaster

Bloody Bledsoe County