Touring the East Tennessee Backroads (Touring the Backroads Series)

In her discussion of eastern Tennessee, Sakowski ( Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads , Blair, 1990) here reveals such surprises as where miniature golf was invented and where the first nationally distributed country-and-western records were recorded. She lingers over the characters, economics, and battles that have put this part of the country on the map. In a format similar to WPA's Guide to Tennessee (Univ. of Tennessee Pr., 1986. reprint), Sakowski gives precise directions to many historic locations, picnic areas, and scenic views of untraveled Tennessee. She drops some startling remarks, such as, "When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima,... most of... Oak Ridge was stunned to learn that... their whole community was centered around producing this bomb." These stories hold the reader's interest. Recommended for libraries having patrons living in and visiting eastern Tennessee.
- Carolyn L. Stoddard, New Hampshire Tech. Inst. Lib., Concord
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