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Sarah Worsham with a delightful abstract painting.

Abigail Blythe Batton/Staff Correspondent Dearest Jennings enjoys her hospital lunch with more enthusiasm than most people.

Selecting from the hundreds of beautiful bowls, all donated by local potters, is the hardest part of John C. Campbell Folk School’s annual Empty Bowls event.

This sign stands on Tatham Gap Road as a reminder of the “Trail of Tears.” In 1838, the government began the Cherokee Indian Removal from Fort Montgomery in Robbinsville, across Tatham Gap to Fort Delaney in Andrews, to Fort Butler in Murphy. Then they marched the Cherokee to internment camps at Fort Cass in Tennessee to await deportation to Oklahoma. A sad period in U.S. history.

Putting thought into tattoos may prevent regrets.

The crest shield outline is an indicator of a U.S. highway. U.S. highways are often concurrent with other numbered highways. At the junction of U.S. 19/129 with U.S. 64/74, all four U.S. highways are on the same road into Murphy.