Thoughts

Independence

Independence

Today we celebrate when our founding fathers said no to unconstrained executive power.


Today we celebrate when our founding fathers said no to the idea that any one man could decide the law for himself.


Today we celebrate when our founding fathers said no to a king whose authority to deny the people their rights was so vast that it could not be checked by the judiciary . . .

Ghosts

Ghosts

In an idyllic meadow north of the Cumberland River, the Hartsville Nuclear Plant now looms as a reminder of dreams abandoned, hopes for future prosperity and freedom relinquished to the pressures of a, perhaps, fickle public.

And now, nearly fifty years later, a stone’s throw from that site of broken promises rests the Trousdale Turner Prison . . .