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Southern Safari
Southern Safari

After you crank your car down from the sixty-five miles-per-hour speed limit, you’ll make a turn onto a shaded, gravel road, and if you are lucky you’ll catch your first glimpse of the exotic: radiant peacocks, enormous camels, ancient buffalo, and vibrant zebras. In a way, you will feel that you have just stepped into a new world filled with wonder and excitement. And you’ve only just pulled in. Tennessee’s only drive-through safari park is truly a captivating place.

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StoriesSeth HardenJackson TN, Tennessee, West Tennessee, Alamo TN, Tennessee Safari Park, safari, park, animals, Seth Harden, Katie Howerton, TCAT, Tennessee College of Applied Technology, John Conley, tourism, peacocks, camels, buffalo, zebra, endangered species, Vol. 2 Issue 1, zoo, Africa, Asia, Europe, kangaroos, Australia, wildebeests, bison, fallow deer, pot belly pig, drive-through, giraffe, exotic, Yellowstone National Park, antelope, Père David’s deer, China, Boxer Rebellion, San Diego Zoo, bontebok, ellipsis waterbuck, scimitar oryx, extinct, gemsbok, wildlife, nature, conservation, preservation, children, kids, education, addax, dama gazelle, pygmy hippo, Highway 412, Tourism Guide 2020
The River
The River

One of the most perplexing and discouraging realities the modern world confronts us with is a disconnection from our past and the past in general. We are separated from the first European settlers of West Tennessee by just less than 200 years, but we have less in common with those ancestors than they themselves would have had with the Ancient Greeks or Romans. Time is a relative construction in this sense, just like it is in physics.

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StoriesKevin VailesJackson TN, Tennessee, Kevin Vailes, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 2, history, boat, travel, West Tennessee, Europe, river, water, Forked Deer River, geography, environment, nature, Mississippi River, New Orleans LA, transportation, ship, railroad, Civil War, traffic, flatboat, paddle-wheeled steamboat, riverboat, SS. Natchez, bridge, Memphis TN, Obion River, army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, engineering, Hatchie River, Ohio River, Ohio River Valley, Mississippi River Valley, valley, Sangamon River, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, land, agriculture, earth, Tourism Guide 2020
Ancient Trails
Ancient Trails

When the white-tailed deer show up in my backyard, it’s like witnessing a direct link to an age almost forgotten. I freeze in my tracks, and I can’t help but think about their unbroken chain of ancestors going back into the ancient past. These animals were here long before any settlers arrived from Europe. They were the hunted long before rifles replaced bows and arrows. They knew these lands when the waters were still clean and the air was still fresh. They knew these lands when there were no cars and no railroads.

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StoriesAngela WoodsJackson TN, Tennessee, Angela Woods, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 2, deer, nature, history, Native American, hunting, West Tennessee, wildlife, wilderness, Chickasaw State Park, Chickasaw, land, culture, government, farm, the South, Hernando DeSoto, village, Spain, Europe, Treaty of Hopewell, Memphis TN, Natchez Trace State Park, earthquake, Mississippi River, Reelfoot Lake, Tecumseh, Detroit MI, North Carolina, Okeena River, Forked Deer River, Pinson Mounds, Tishomingo, Andrew Jackson, War of 1812, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, Oklahoma, smallpox, Madison County, civilization, animals, preservation, Tennessee River, Tourism Guide 2020
Indelible Marks
Indelible Marks

I still remember the conversation I had with my mother after I got my first tattoo.  It went a little something like this: Me: So, I need to tell you something. Mom: What happened? Me: Nothing happened. I got a tattoo. Mom: WHAT?! Me: I said, I— Mom: WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!! Me: I just wan— Mom: THAT’S JUST STUPID! You know those things never come off! Me: Yes. I know, but— Mom: So, now you drink beer AND have a tattoo?! Well, you’re just white trash!

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StoriesGabe HartJackson TN, Tennessee, Gabe Hart, tattoo, artist, art, arts, Chad Newsom, Legendary Ink, Budo Tattoo, Virginia Beach, Virginia Beach Tattoo Festival, England, London, Europe, travel, France, Chattanooga TN, local, local business, Best of 2016
What I Learned In Jackson Schools
What I Learned In Jackson Schools

There is a very special place in my heart for the schools in Jackson, Tennessee. From elementary school at Andrew Jackson to middle school at Tigrett and high school and college at Jackson Central-Merry and Union University, I am fully a product of the Jackson-Madison County public school system and West Tennessee higher education.

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EssaysJon Mark WallsJackson TN, Tennessee, West Tennessee, Jon Mark Walls, school, school system, Jackson-Madison County School System, JMCSS, Andrew Jackson Elementary School, Tigrett Middle School, Jackson Central-Merry High School, JCM, Union University, education, public education, teamwork, baseball, athletics, sports, Fesmire Field, European Union, EU, Europe, United Nations, UN, Geneva, France, diplomat, French National Military Academy, London, Paris, Paris France, British House of Lords, Switzerland