A view of Tennessee and Peachtree streets in Murphy taken from a Murphy High School annual in the time this column is set.
Taking a 1970s walk around downtown Murphy
Bruce Voyles
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Thursday, July 6, 2023
A view of Tennessee and Peachtree streets in Murphy taken from a Murphy High School annual in the time this column is set.
Joseph (Joe) El-Khouri’s entry in the Fourth of July parade in the summer of 1962 expressed how extremely proud he was to be a U.S. citizen. This photo includes five of the El-Khouri children and two of their cousins from Copperhill, Tenn.
Many folks living in the Appalachian Mountains in the early 1900s had little or no doctors in the remote areas and relied on those with the knowledge, or the “gift,” to heal certain ailments. The Bible verse in Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 6, was read to stop bleeding.