I’ve wanted to go see my grandmother’s house since moving to Knoxville a few months ago, but I didn’t want to go alone so I waited until my sister Krista could come with me.
This is what the house used to look like and except for the fact that there were a lot more trees [...]

Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I have no pictures for most of the next few rooms, unfortunately.  Grandma’s bedroom was at the end of the hall. I remember thinking that she had the softest bed in the world. Her blankets were a light turquoise and she had a headboard with shelves. She probably had books up there, but I only [...]

Posted on June 8th, 2009 by Kathleen
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**I could only find pictures of one of the rooms that I describe here, so I scattered pictures of that room throughout the descriptions of the others**
Through the kitchen was the opening to the hallway. I loved grandma’s hall. She kept giant bullion boards filled with pictures. She had an assortment of pictures old [...]

Posted on April 26th, 2009 by Kathleen
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The door that we used most to go in and out of Grandma’s house was probably the back sliding door. As you walked in the door you were instantly surrounded by the dark wood paneling that covered the walls. There was a stone wall to the left with a fireplace and a stone ledge [...]

Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Kathleen
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We usually visited my Grandparents in TN twice a year, at Christmas time and once in the summer. They lived on Yarnell road just off of Campbell Station road. I remember Campbell Station as a treacherous windy road with a cliff to one side and a forested hill on the other. The road was slightly [...]

Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Kathleen
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