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Author
Publisher
Celtic Cat Publishing
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
ix, 187 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Retired Knoxville News Sentinel Senior Writer, Fred Brown, describes Bill Landry as East Tennessee's favorite uncle---the one with all the good stories that have become so familiar and popular. When The Heartland Series premiered in 1984 on WBIR, Channel 10 in Knoxville, Tennessee to showcase the 50th anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Landry quickly emerged as host, narrator, and co-producer of the show. He became the voice and...
Author
Publisher
Anomolaic Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 243 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The Territory South of the River Ohio was once called the Southwest Territory. It is the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, called the Tennessee country. It belonged to the Cherokee. Taking it from them would not be easy. Herein the conflict begins. The story of an uncommon people who settled this frontier land -- when the west was Tennessee country. The story is told via a loose narrative set in the 1790's about what...
Author
Publisher
Celtic Cat Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
x, 202 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The author shares some of his favorite stories, including "an adventure, some history, an Olympic memory, a football recollection, a love story, and a tragic tale. Some are personal. Some are historical. Some are comical. Some are sorrowful. Most are somewhere in between"--Preface page ix.
Author
Publisher
Anomolaic Press
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
For more than twenty-five years as host of WBIR-TV, Knoxville, Tennessee's The Heartland Series, and 2,000 television episodes, Bill's been spinning years and telling tales about the people of east Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains. Now, finally, in A last Hurrah, he's telling his own story.
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