Vision 2020 Inc.Category: This Place Matters
Do You Have the Heart?
Did you get a chance to stop in at the Red Boiling Springs Community Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday, March 21? Or, did you see the pictures on Facebook? Events like these don’t just happen. They require a coordinator and lots of volunteers to make it a reality.
Vision 2020 has sponsored several community events since their charter in 2009. Some events are fund-raisers for the Heritage Museum project, some are just for fun.
Read More2020: The Year That Wasn’t
If you’re like me you are tired of hearing words like: pandemic, Covid-19, shutdown, cancelled, quarantine, lockdown, work-from-home, remote learning, mask or no mask, vaccine or no vaccine. Our nation’s governing individuals and communities’ reaction to this unknown virus has…
Read MoreA Heart of Gratitude
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” – Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), American playwright and novelist. I have a friend who in his mid-fifties had to undergo open-heart surgery….
Read MoreDevices
I am an avid fan of authors Agatha Christie (murder mysteries), Erle Stanley Gardner (Perry Mason) and Helen MacInnes (espionage). I have read (and re-read) many of their novels since I was a young teenager. These authors (and others) use…
Read MoreWhat a ride!
Wow, what a wild ride we have been on for the last six months! Tornadoes, world-wide virus pandemic, more tornadoes, quarantine stay-at-home restrictions, earthquakes, panic and fear have fueled this roller coaster called 2020. Only one thing is certain in…
Read MoreWhere the healing waters flow
“Red Boiling Springs’ growth as a resort was built on the reputation of its abundant mineral waters. In the 1920s, there were said to be over 50 springs in the Red Boiling Springs area, and five different kinds of water,…
Read MoreFebruary: The Month of Love
Come February, when I was in grade school, we would create a large, highly decorated with hearts envelope to attach to the front of our desks. Our work of art was to a receptacle for Valentine wishes from our classmates….
Read MoreGood night, John-Boy
The Waltons was a television series broadcast during the 1970s. It was based on the childhood recollections of Earl Hamner. It is a story about the trials and triumphs of a multi-generational family during the Great Depression and World War…
Read MoreHome for the Holidays
I usually write my blog in the gazebo of the Step Back in Time shop on one of the days I volunteer as a sales clerk. Although I would love to be covered up with customers and guests, many days…
Read MoreThank you
In the last few weeks of his young life, my brother James taught me a most valuable lesson that I will never forget. Due the ravages of cancer and its treatment, James was no longer able to breathe without the…
Read MoreTelling Our Story
October 2019 Each October, since 1973, in the little town of Jonesborough, TN thousands of people from all walks and seasons of life gather under tents to hear stories. Why do they come? Storytelling is as vital to our lives…
Read MoreI Know a Place*
August 2019 What is there to do in Red Boiling Springs? How many times have you been asked that question? What is so special about Red Boiling Springs? The shortest and best answer is the citizens. Warm, friendly, welcoming; all…
Read MoreHome of the Brave
July 2019 – “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” “Home” is one of those beautiful four-letter words. From the first settlers who arrived on the east coast to those who fought to separate themselves…
Read MoreThis Place Matters
June 2019 – We have just experienced, in the last few weeks, opportunities to remember. With Memorial Day and the marking of the D-Day invasion, we honor the memories of the fallen brave with recollection of deeds that paid the…
Read MoreOur Roots to our Future
Key to our Future I find this quote from Corrie Ten Boom interesting. Corrie (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker. She with her father, Casper, sister, Betsie and other family members helped many Jews escape…
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