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unusual facts about Kingsport, TN



Blanche Mehaffey

Kingsport, Tennessee Times, Prettiest Eyes, March 14, 1928, Page 1.

Huron, Indiana

In Kentucky, 3985 was decided to host the annual CSX Clinchfield Santa Train which runs over the former Clinchfield Railroad between Elkhorn City, Kentucky and Kingsport, Tennessee.

Janette Carter

Janette Carter (2 July 1923, Maces Spring, Virginia - 22 January 2006, Kingsport, Tennessee) was the last surviving child of A.P. and Sara Carter, of Carter Family musical fame.

Kingsport

Kingsport Mets, a minor league baseball team based in Kingsport, Tennessee

Kingsport, Nova Scotia

Kingsport features prominently in the book Blomidon Rose, a nostalgic look at the life and landscape of 1930s Annapolis Valley by Esther Clark Wright.

Lesley Riddle

Riddle began to divide his time between Kingsport and the Carter home in Maces Spring, Virginia.

Main Event Championship Wrestling

Prior to this inception, MECW events spanned from Vincennes to Marion, Lafayette, and Evansville, Indiana, as well as Nashville, Kingsport and various other cities in Tennessee.

Mark Dawidziak

In 1983, after stints as the arts and entertainment editor at the Bristol Herald-Courier in Bristol, Virginia and the Kingsport Times-Times in Kingsport, Tennessee, he moved to the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio as that newspaper's TV critic (later becoming its film critic).

Nick Castle

in Kingsport, Tennessee the son of Millie and Nicholas Charles Castle, Sr. who was an actor and top choreographer for motion pictures, television, and the stage, and was nominated for an Emmy.

Quebecor World

In response, the company's Board of Directors named Wes Lucas President and CEO, replacing Pierre Karl Péladeau, and announced a reorganization of its American book and magazine platforms, closing plants in Kingsport, TN, and Brookfield, WI.

Sharp's Ridge

The nearest "antenna farms" to Sharp's Ridge are on Holston Mountain in upper East Tennessee, home to most of the FM and TV stations in the Tri-Cities (Bristol, Virginia-Kingsport, Tennessee-Johnson City, Tennessee) Designated Market Area (DMA), and the Signal Mountain broadcast antenna farm, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, home to most of the FM and TV station antennas in that DMA.

Southern States Wrestling

Four years later, Mike Cooper won the SSW Young Guns Television Championship in Kingsport coinciding with the promotion launching its weekly television program which aired regularly on WAPK-CA from January 1999 until October 2003.

The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants

The stories utilise such settings as Brichester, Goatswood and Clotton - Campbell's equivalent English invented locales comprising the Severn Valley (Cthulhu Mythos), based upon Lovecraft's invention of such locales as Arkham, Dunwich, and Kingsport.

The Terrible Old Man

It's notable as the first story to make use of Lovecraft's imaginary New England setting, introducing the fictional town of Kingsport.

WKPT

WKPT-TV, a television station (channel 19) licensed to Kingsport, Tennessee, United States

WTFM, a radio station (98.5 FM) licensed to Kingsport, Tennessee, United States, formerly called WKPT-FM

WOPI

WOPI-CA, a television station (TV 9) licensed to Kingsport, Tennessee


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