Times-News Online present regional blogs from the citizens of the Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia region. We publish these free links as a servie to our community and are not responsible for published content on these individual blogs.
The bloggers contributing here are readers offering their own perspectives on subjects that interest them. Their posts and opinions are their own, and are not edited by Times-News Online. They are solely responsible for the content of their blogs.
Art and Entertainment
Ciny Callinsky
Blog - http://blog.myspace.com/rearviewmirrorbook
RSS - http://Description - Preview of the Autobiography Rear View Mirror. Author, Cindy Callinsky
David Cate
Blog - http://www.idav.com
RSS - http://Description - I've worked 21 years in radio, newspaper and the Internet and love the mountains of East Tennessee. My blog is my best attempt to chronicle my adventures and personal views about media music and more.
Hillbilly Savants
Blog - http://hillbillysavants.blogspot.com
RSS - http://feeds.feedburner.com/HillbillySavantsDescription - This blog is about our Appalachia - the real one, not the Hollywood-stereotype nor the third-world nation-esque stereotype being sold by do-gooders, or even the neo-Romantic sylvan stereotype that Rousseau would probably buy into. It should be interesting.
Laura Wright
Blog - http://whitewraith.blogspirit.com
RSS - http://Description - The Appalachian Writer- The blog devoted to professional writing. Features include writing articles, progress reports, and publishing news.
Thomma Lyn Grindstaff
Blog - http://thommalyn.blogspot.com/
RSS - http://thommalyn.blogspot.com/atom.xmlDescription - An East Tennessee gal's thoughts on being a novelist, a reader, a pianist, an armchair science nerd, and a cat wrangler, among many other things
Civic Government
Jeff Fleming
Blog - http://jefffleming.blogspot.com
RSS - http://Description - Kingsport community info
Opinions
John Shuck
Blog - http://shuckandjive.blogspot.com/
RSS - http://Description - A Presbyterian minister blogs about spirituality, culture, religion (both organized and disorganized), life, evolution, literature, Jesus and lightening up. John Shuck is the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton, Tennessee www.1stpres-eliz.org (a liberal church on the buckle of the Bible belt).
John Shuck
Blog - http://http://shuckandjive.blogspot.com/
RSS - http://Description - A Presbyterian minister blogs about spirituality, culture, religion (both organized and disorganized), life, evolution, literature, Jesus and lightening up. John Shuck is the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton, Tennessee www.1stpres-eliz.org (a liberal church on the buckle of the Bible belt).
Outdoors
Mike Faulk
Blog - http://strumisland.blogspot.com/
RSS - http://strumisland.blogspot.com/rss.xmlDescription - Mike Faulk is an attorney from Church Hill whose outdoor passions are journaled through the Strum Island Journal. Explore regional outdoors and hunting adventures with Mike with regular updates.
Personal
Angelia Gibson-Herrell
Blog - http://www.anuncommonlife.blogspot.com/
RSS - http://anuncommonlife.blogspot.com/atom.xmlDescription - Welcome to the chaotic world of me: soccer mom, humor columnist, chronic car key misplacer and lady on the verge of losin' it. I doubt you'll find any useful information in here, but read on. Sometimes, the best way to feel good about your own life is to laugh at someone else's.
Baer Bradford
Blog - http://baerwb.spaces.live.com/
RSS - http://baerwb.spaces.live.com/feed.rssDescription - A-before-E
Don Fenley
Blog - http://www.timesnews.net/bloggerpage?blog=DonFenley
RSS - http://www.timesnews.net/bloggerpage?blog=DonFenleyDescription - Of This and That - Don Fenley RSS New Media Editor Don Fenley casts a wide net for news in his blog titled Of This and That. You'll find intriguing side notes about odds, ends and post scripts about the news and more.
Ernest Slyman
Blog - http://evangelicalspectator.typepad.com/the_evangelical_spectator/
RSS - http://evangelicalspectator.typepad.com/the_evangelical_spectator/rss.xmlDescription - Humor / Tall Tales of The Bible Belt, where burning bushes talk and Bibles float in the air and angels will give you a lift to church, if you don't have one.
Ned Jilton - Hard Tack and Hard Times
Blog - http://www.timesnews.net/bloggerpage.php?blog=NedJilton
RSS - http://www.timesnews.net/blogs/beerblog/?feed=rss2Description - Ned Jilton is a Times News Staff photographer and a 1981 graduate of ETSU where he majored in Mass Communication and minored in photography. Having turned his hobby into a profession he adopted a new hobby, History.
Paul Mashburn
Blog - http://mushysmoochings.blogspot.com
RSS - http://mushysmoochings.blogspot.com/atom.xmlDescription - Lessons stolen from life and given back - memories of a 60s kind of man.
Rich Wagner
Blog - http://www.rdwagner.com
RSS - http://http://www.rdwagner.com/index.rdfDescription - Kingsport Dad covers family, church, and life in East TN. Podcasts as well.
Technology
Dave Sieg
Blog - http://davesieg.com
RSS - http://davesieg.com/?feed=rss2?http_auth=yesDescription - Random musings about technology, music, media, and the future.
