From all over the state, Tennesseans sent James Ewing their
favorite stories. "It Happened in Tennessee "contains the most
fascinating, the most interesting, and the strangest of those
stories, including
- Tennessee's biggest man, Mills Darden from Lexington, who was
seven feet, six inches tall and weighed 1,020 pounds.
- The eight thousand people who attended the funeral Felix "Uncle
Bush" Breazeale gave in Roane County―for himself
- A ghost named Mary who always sits in Row C, Seat 5, in the
Orpheum Theater in Memphis.
- How a letter from Harry Burn's mother of Niota caused the
nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution to be ratified.
- The world's largest goose drive, an eight-mile drive which took
place near Gates in the early 1900s.
- The touching story of two wives of Jeff Howell who met at his
funeral.
Interesting, poignant, fun, and nostalgic, the stories in "It
Happened in Tennessee "make excellent reading for everyone who
loves a good story.
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