Town and Country

Written by Jules Corriere with Anne G’Fellers-Mason 

Accompanist                      Brett McCluskey

Sound Engineer                 Mike D’Avella

Stage Manager                  Phyllis Fabozzi

Sound Effects                    Gary Degner

Editor                                 Wayne Winkler

Stories tonight are created from interviews with: 

Alfred Greenlee                      Mary Nell Robeson 

Ellen Kitsmiller-Hedaway      John B. Shanks

Sandra Keefauver                   Becky Poteat Simms

Virginia Maden                       Barbara G. Smith

Shirley Meade                        Jimmy Neil Smith                   

Lawrence Zornes             

…And others who wish to remain anonymous.

SPONSORED BY

The Tennessee Arts Commission

Main Street Cafe and Catering

Wild Women of Jonesborough

Nancy Hope and Odie Major

WETS 89.5 FM Johnson City

McKinney Center

Town of Jonesborough

Stories for this program come from oral histories collected through the region and also come from an oral history project led by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and features memories captured from Mary Nell Bacon Roberson, Alfred Greenlee, Shirley Meade, Virginia Maden, John B. Shanks, Jr., Becky Poteat Simms, and many more. They provide a glimpse into life on Main Street when horses were more in fashion than cars.  

Others remember the coming of electricity in the late forties and fifties out in the county; the fortitude it took to live off of the land; and for some, like the Bean family, and in particular, Russell Bean, how hard living sometimes hardened the heart, as recalled by his eight-times great-grandson, Jonathan Edens.