Cast Iron Coffin Brings Giles County National Attention

In 2002, when I began covering relocation of the Mason Cemetery, I never imagined that a year later I’d be in the Smithsonian Institution as the remains believed to be those of planter and Confederate soldier Isaac Newton Mason were examined by a team of experts in...

How the Search for Pvt. Mason Began

How I came to be present in the scientific research area of the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History when a 19th-century iron burial case was opened by a team of prominent scientists started as a routine story for the Citizen/Press.In covering the removal of the...