Pulaski Pure Milk Company By Claudia Johnson In the mid-1950s the recognizable red and white Pulaski Pure Milk carton replaced thick glass bottles. The carton boasted of a variety of product offerings and the company’s membership in the Dairy Guild. The McPeters...
Chautauqua Brought Opportunities to Giles County Circuit or “tent” Chautauqua had its beginning in the lyceum movement, which started in Massachusetts as early as 1826, and in the Chautauqua assemblies held at Lake Chautauqua, New York, beginning in 1874....
Sam Davis’ servant interviewed at age 83 by Claudia Johnson, reprinted from my book, a page from the past… In 1926 an 83-year-old negro man, Coleman Davis Smith, visited a business in Senatobia, Miss., and spoke to H.C. Featherstun about “the (Civil) war and...
Tennessee Homecoming ’86 Campbellsville HistoryFrom the book, Giles County Tennessee Homecoming ’86By Claudia Kay Johnson and Richard Hannah DunavantCampbellsville was named for Hamilton Crockett Campbell, an early settler who, along with John Dickey and Jacob...
A Fictional Account of Christmas 1868 Based on Documented Historical Facts Julia Ann Joines Carvell was a real Giles Countian and the great-great-great grandmother of Claudia Johnson, who hosts this page. Although no journal exists attributed to Julia Ann, everything...
