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99 unusual facts about Tennessee


13th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry

The 13th Tennessee Cavalry was organized at Strawberry Plains, Gallatin and Nashville, Tennessee and mustered in for a three year enlistment under the command of Colonel John K. Miller.

1st Arkansas Light Artillery

Then marched overland to Des Arc where the army was transported by steamboat to Memphis in an attempt to unite the Army of the West with the Confederate Army of Mississippi to attack Grant at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, but arrived too late for the Battle of Shiloh.

A Death in the Family

The novel provides a portrait of life in Knoxville, Tennessee, showing how such a loss affects the young widow, her two children, her atheist father and the dead man's alcoholic brother.

Albert Journeay

After graduating from Penn, Journeay had a career in banking in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Atomic City

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a city in Anderson and Roane Counties, Tennessee

Audrey Landers

Landers was first noticed with a country song that she wrote and performed at the age of twelve, which led to a Nashville recording contract with Epic Records, a performance on The Merv Griffin Show, and a year-long role on the daytime drama, The Secret Storm.

Beale Street Blues

Much more recently it was included as a track on the Memphis Jazz Box in 2004 as tribute to Handy's impact on the legacy of Memphis and American music.

Beasley-Parham House

The Beasley-Parham House is located in the vicinity of Greenbrier, Tennessee, United States.

Bell Witch: The Movie

The film retells the haunting legend about The Bell Witch of Adams, Tennessee, a historically documented haunting that took place in the early 19th century.

Better Get to Livin'

The music video for "Better Get to Livin'" is set in a carnival, filmed on location at a farm in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Bluff City

Memphis, Tennessee is often referred to as "The Bluff City" due to its location on a bluff on the Mississippi River

Brad Hopkins

He currently works as a sports radio personality for WPRT-FM in Nashville.

Brooke Annibale

Brooke Annibale (born July 1987) is an American singer/songwriter and musician, originally from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, and based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Brother Henry

Brother Henry is a rock 'n' roll band from Nashville, Tennessee.

C. J. McCoy

McCoy got his start as a football coach at the Sewanee Military Academy, a preparatory school affiliated with the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Californium

The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, started producing small batches of californium in the 1960s.

Charles Madic

He spent two years in the U.S. at the nuclear research center of Oak Ridge in the 1980s with his wife and two little girls.

Cherokee clans

The Ridge also helped bring about the second major revision change to the Cherokee "Blood Law", which was provoked largely by the assassination of Doublehead at Hiwassee Garrison near the Cherokee Agency (now Calhoun, Tennessee in August 1807.

Chilhowee Inn

Chilhowee Inn opened as a bed and breakfast in February 2008 which makes it the oldest actively operating inn in Blount County.

Cookeville Railroad Depot

Although Crawford died shortly thereafter, his sons continued his work, and managed to extend the tracks to Monterey, at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau.

Coraopolis Bridge

John Baird had also been involved in the construction of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis and the Cairo bridge in Memphis, and had been employed by the McCann Construction Company, the Keystone Bridge Company and American Bridge Company.

Dan Folger

His and his friends' interest in music led to a move to Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1960s.

David G. Haskell

David George Haskell is an American biologist, author, and professor of biology at Sewanee: The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee.

David Gundlach

Set in the 1930s, a Tennessee hermit throws his own funeral party while still alive.

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee.

Dolores Gresham

Her Senate District 26 encompasses the counties of Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, McNairy and Wayne in the western part of the state.

Douglas S. Jackson

Jackson was elected to a full term in November 2002 by a larger margin over his Republican opponent, retired Humphreys County educator Jim Brasfield, than he had won over Butler two years previously.

Endurance by Right

She was bought for $250 by William S. Barnes, who sent her to Memphis in early 1901 to be trained.

Enoch Tanner Wickham

One of his largest statues was a Memorial to honor his son Ernest Wickham and other local soldiers of Montgomery County, Tennessee who died in World War II.

Eugene Maxwell Frank

He was survived by his daughters and sons-in-law Wilmagene and Lewis Noonan of Leawood, Kansas and Susan and Mark Parsons of Ashbourne, Derbyshire in the U.K.; by a daughter, Gretchen Frank Beal of Knoxville, Tennessee, and son and daughter-in-law, Thomas E. Frank and Gail O'Day of Atlanta.

Fantastic Sams

Fantastic Sams was founded in 1974 by Sam Ross in Memphis, Tennessee.

Frank Lawrence Owsley

As an active member of the Southern Agrarians group based in Nashville, Owsley contributed "The Irrepressible Conflict" to the manifesto I'll Take My Stand (1930).

Goodale Sisters

Later she was a teacher and director of the Uplands Sanatorium in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee.

Gordon Granger

After Chattanooga, Granger took part in lifting the siege at Knoxville, Tennessee.

Gruetli-Laager, Tennessee

Just west of Gruetli-Laager, TN-108 intersects Tennessee Highway 56, which connects the area to Monteagle and Interstate 24 to the southwest and McMinnville to the northwest.

Hall income tax

Both of the bill's sponsors represent Cumberland County, the location of retirement communities including Fairfield Glade and Lake Tansi.

Hardeman County, Tennessee

Hardeman County was created by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1823 from parts of Hardin County and "Indian lands." It is named for Thomas Jones Hardeman (1788-1854), a Creek War and War of 1812 veteran and prominent figure in the fight for Texas independence, and a Republic of Texas congressman.

Harriman High School

Harriman High School is a small, public high school located in Harriman, Tennessee, operated by the Roane County School System.

Harry Coleman McGehee, Jr.

While a woman was a finalist for the position, which would have resulted in the first female Bishop, ultimately the election was won by R. Stewart Wood Jr., rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee.

Harvey Marion LaFollette

The town that grew up around his business venture was named LaFollette in his honor and became the county seat of Campbell County.

Henry Gross

Gross moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1986 and signed a publishing deal with Pic-A-Lic Music, a company owned by Roger Cook and Ralph Murphy.

Herff-Brooks Corporation

It was a successor to the failed Marathon Motor Works of Nashville, Tennessee, and operated with some of the same personnel and equipment.

Holland McCombs

Born in Martin, Tennessee, Holland McCombs became a correspondent for TIME magazine in 1935, and later bureau chief for TIME and LIFE magazine in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Dallas.

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.

James Carter and the Prisoners

Carter flew to Los Angeles to attend the Grammy Award ceremony and to Tennessee for the benefit concert held in Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, which featured repeat performances by the performers of other numbers on the soundtrack (although Carter himself did not perform).

James Ernest Karnes

James Ernest "Buck" Karnes (July 20, 1889–July 8, 1966), was born in Arlington, Tennessee and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Janice Bowling

Bowling has been a public official and community activist in her home town of Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Jason McAddley

He played his high school football at Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and went to the University of Alabama.

Jim Photoglo

After his career as a pop star waned, he became a successful country music songwriter in Nashville.

Jimmy Naifeh

He represents House District 81, which includes most of Tipton County and all of Haywood County.

John Hervey Crozier

John Hervey Crozier (February 10, 1812 – October 25, 1889) was an American attorney and politician active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, during the mid-nineteenth century.

John Morgan Bright

Born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, Bright was the son of James and Nancy Morgan Bright.

John W. Comfort

He immediately reenlisted while stationed in Hamilton County, Tennessee in December 1863, weeks after the Battle of Wauhatchie, and was promoted to the rank of sergeant at the end of the month.

Jonathan Meiburg

Meiburg has a bachelor's degree in English, with a minor in Religion, from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and received a Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study daily life in remote human communities.

Joseph McMinn

In 1823, he moved to a farm along the Hiwassee River near Calhoun, Tennessee, and served as an agent for the federal government at the nearby Cherokee Agency until the time of his death.

Konrad Dannenberg

Dannenberg retired from the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1973 and became an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) in Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Labor federation competition in the United States

And, a series of strikes by coal miners in Tracy City, Tennessee, intended to end the use of convict labor in the mines, were also put down by militia.

Lower Broadway

Lower Broadway is an entertainment district of Nashville, Tennessee.

Marion Keisker

Marion Keisker MacInnes (September 23, 1917 – December 29, 1989), born in Memphis, Tennessee, was a radio show host, station manager, U.S. Air Force officer, and assistant to Sam Phillips at Sun Records.

Mitch Rouse

Rouse was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he played football at Oak Ridge High School.

Mitchell W. Stout

Stout, aged 20 at his death, was buried in Virtue Cemetery, Concord, Tennessee.

Murder of Jessica Currin

In March 2007, Quincy Omar Cross of Tiptonville, Tennessee, was charged with the murder and in April 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

National Safety Associates

National Safety Associates (NSA) is a privately owned marketing company based in Collierville, Tennessee, best known for selling a line of water and air filters, and then the nutritional supplement Juice Plus, via multi-level marketing.

New King James Version

It was inaugurated in 1975 with two meetings (Nashville and Chicago) of 130 biblical scholars, pastors, and theologians.

North Springs

North Springs, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Tennessee

Nutbush

Nutbush, Tennessee, a town in Haywood County, childhood home of singer Tina Turner

Old Town, Tennessee

the former settlement of Hardinville, Tennessee, which by the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War had been renamed Old Town

Oliver Springs High School

Oliver Springs High School (OSHS) is the Roane County high school operated by Roane County Schools that serves the city of Oliver Springs, Tennessee.

Othello, Washington

The post office was named Othello after a post office also called Othello in Roane County, Tennessee.

Outsiders Inn

Episode Two, titled "Pigeon Idol," was shot at Fiddler's Roost in Parrottsville, Tennessee on June 15, 2008, where the celebs judged a talent contest hosted by Ross Mathews from The Tonight Show.

Peter C. Doherty

Doherty currently spends three months of the year conducting research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is a faculty member at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center through the College of Medicine.

Phil Leadbetter

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Phil was a 1980 graduate of Gibbs High School in Corryton, Tennessee.

Piper PA-24 Comanche

Country music singers Patsy Cline, "Cowboy" Lloyd Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins were on board a Comanche owned and piloted by Cline's manager, Randy Hughes, when it crashed in deteriorating weather near Camden, Tennessee on March 5, 1963, killing all on board.

President Andrew Johnson Museum and Library

The President Andrew Johnson Museum and Library located on the campus of Tusculum College in Tusculum, Tennessee, (Greeneville postal address), is the Presidential Library and Museum for Andrew Johnson.

Ramon Foster

Foster started for all four year both on offense and defense at Ripley High School in Ripley, Tennessee and also handled some place-kicking and kickoff duties.

Red High Heels

Portions of the video were shot at Robinson Stadium, and the high school football field in Watertown, Tennessee.

Rhoades Car

Rhoades Car, founded in 1991, is located in Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA.

Richard Fulton

In 1966, 1968, and 1970, his Republican opponent was George Kelly, who owned a prominent flower shop in the Nashville suburb of Donelson.

Roan Mountain

Roan Mountain, Tennessee — a small town in northeastern Tennessee near the base of Roan Mountain

Robert Lyster Thornton

In 1943 Thornton became assistant director of the Process Improvement Division of the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the huge Y-12 plant containing hundreds of calutrons was located.

Rocky Mount

Rocky Mount, Tennessee, historic first capital of the Southwest Territory

Rolf Hagedorn

Because of his training in the Crossville, Tennessee prison camp, he was accepted as a fourth-semester student at the University of Göttingen – one of the few remaining universities.

Sally Lloyd-Jones

Nashville singer Sandra McCracken's 2012 album Rain for Roots was based on the poems of Sally Lloyd-Jones.

Sandy D'Alemberte

In 1955, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with honors from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and also attended summer school at Florida State University and the University of Virginia.

Sequatchie Valley

The Sequatchie River drains the valley in Tennessee, flowing south to southwest from the southern part of Cumberland County, Tennessee to the Tennessee River near the Alabama border.

Smyrna

Several American cities have been named after Smyrna, including Smyrna, Georgia; Smyrna, Tennessee; Smyrna, Delaware and New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Sparta Rock House

The main branch (roughly following the modern US-70N) continued northwestward to what is now Monterey, while a second branch (roughly following the modern US-70) proceeded westward to what is now Sparta.

Steve McManus

Steve McManus is a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 10th district, encompassing Cordova and part of Shelby County.

Tennessee's Partner

As the character based on Bob Gaudio explains in the musical Jersey Boys, "I'm watching the million dollar movie. Some cheesy John Payne western. He hauls off and smacks Rhonda Fleming across the mouth and says, 'What do you think of that?' She looks up at him defiant, proud, eyes glistening - and she says, 'Big girls don't cry.'"

The Americana Folk Festival

The Americana Folk Festival (AFF) is a grassroots art and music event held at Montgomery Bell State Park in Burns, Tennessee (right outside Nashville.) The event focuses on folk music as it relates to various genres, particularly jazz, Americana, blues, and rock.

Thomas Clarke Rye

Rye was born in Benton County, Tennessee, the son of Wayne Rye, a merchant, and Elizabeth (Atchison) Rye.

Tusculum, Tennessee

Chuckey-Doak Middle School and Chuckey-Doak High School are located nearby in Afton also operated by Greene County Public Schools.

Unmatched Brutality Records

Unmatched Brutality is a record label based out of Powell, Tennessee.

Volvo Penta

The company has a number of manufacturing bases for diesel engines at Vara, Sweden, Wuxi, China; and Lexington, Tennessee, United States, for all gasoline engines and sterndrives.

WABG-TV

Until then, the only areas of the state to receive a sole ABC affiliate were the northwest (from Memphis' WHBQ-TV) and the Gulf Coast (from WVUE in New Orleans).

William Craig Rice

After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertook graduate studies at the University of Michigan.

William Frierson Cooper

His father was a merchant who later became a banker in Columbia, Tennessee.

WSIL-TV

However, some parts of Southeastern Missouri could not receive channel 3's signal clearly, presumably because WSIL had to conform it to protect WREC-TV (now WREG-TV) in Memphis, Tennessee in the next market to the south.

Zack Bragg

Bragg, who wanted to further his lumber business, selected the name West Memphis because of nearby Memphis, Tennessee's prestige within the lumber community at the time.


1981 Tennessee Volunteers football team

Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Johnny Majors, in his fifth year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee.

19th Tennessee Infantry

The attack on the Federal camp opened at 5:00 A.M., but Col. George Maney's battalion, the 19th Tennessee, and General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry were sent to scout the Confederate rear in case Buell attempted a landing there.

20 Years After

Filmed principally in north Alabama and southern Tennessee, the low-budget film was initially released under the title Like Moles, Like Rats, a reference to the Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth.

25 Minutes to Go

German singer Gunter Gabriel on his Album The Tennessee-Recordings (2003).

All Hands Together

Recorded in Tennessee, USA, it was a gospel-inflected, adult contemporary-styled charity single and her tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with the proceeds of the single going to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Andrea Conte

Following their marriage, she obtained a job with Hospital Corporation of America in Nashville, TN, and the couple moved to Tennessee in 1975.

Appalachian stereotypes

The Beverly Hillbillies are of course the quintessential Appalachian stereotypes, despite being Ozarkian (excepting Granny Moses from Appalachian Tennessee), who arrive in Beverly Hills never having seen a telephone or electricity before.

Benjamin C. Truman

When the Civil War began, he became a war correspondent, then declined a commission in 1862 to become a staff aide to Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee, and Generals James S. Negley, John H. King and Kenner Garrard.

Bill Bates

During Tennessee's 16-15 loss to eventual national champion Georgia on September 6, 1980, Georgia running back Herschel Walker and Bates met on the 5-yard line in a play that still lives in many college football highlights.

Bulwark Protective Apparel

The company is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee and owned by VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC), the world’s largest apparel company.

Canning Dam

Many old concrete dams are known to suffer from AAR, including Fontana Dam in Tennessee and Pian Telessio dam in Italy among others.

Cumberland Airport

Upper Cumberland Regional Airport serving Sparta, Tennessee, United States (FAA: SRB)

Dan Kuykendall

However, reapportionment based on the 1970 federal census caused Tennessee to lose a congressional district.

Dave Serrano

Serrano returned to assistant coaching duties for 1992-94 for the Falcons before going to Tennessee, where he served two seasons as pitching coach for Rod Delmonico.

Dixie Network

Marston also was elected to the National Association of Broadcasters Board of Directors in 1970 Edward B. Fritts, who began his broadcast career at WENK, Union City, Tennessee, was elected President of The National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., where he led the national trade association with distinction.

Eagle Bus

Officials from Silver Eagle joined Governor Phil Bredesen, Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Matt Kisber, and local officials in announcing the project.

Eben Alexander

Eben Alexander's father, Ebenezer Alexander, was a prominent judge in Tennessee, and his grandfather, Adam Rankin Alexander, was the founder of Alexandria, Tennessee and a member of the House of Representatives from 1823 to 1827.

Elkanah Greer

Three years later, he returned to Tennessee to marry a local girl named Anna Holcombe (whose famous sister Lucy Petway Holcombe married Francis Wilkinson Pickens, and became known during the Civil War as the "Queen of the Confederacy").

Fairvue

Isaac Franklin Plantation, also known as Fairvue, a former National Historic Landmark that remains listed on the NRHP in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee

Final play of Super Bowl XXXIV

In the 2000 film Cast Away, Tom Hanks' character returns from being stranded on an island for four years to his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

Hansjörg Göritz

2013 American Academy in Rome Affiliated Fellowship, University of Tennessee, for Rome research proposal 'Intra Murus', including studies on Louis I. Kahn's 1951 AAR residence

Highway Don't Care

It was made in partnership with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee and highlights the dangers of driving while distracted, particularly texting and driving.

James Patton Brownlow

After a brief expedition to fight Native Americans (Indians) and guerrillas from North Carolina in Cocke County, Tennessee, Colonels Brownlow and Palmer with about one thousand men of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry and 10th Ohio Cavalry held the army's right wing, watching for arrival of a Confederate force reportedly approaching East Tennessee from North Carolina.

Joseph Anderson

Joseph Inslee Anderson (November 5, 1757 – April 17, 1837) was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1799 to 1815, and later as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury.

Justin Wilson

Justin P. Wilson (born 1945), comptroller and former deputy governor of Tennessee

LBMS

Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, a football stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Lon Williams

Lon Thomas Williams (March 17, 1890 - June 1978) was an American western author, teacher, and lawyer who lived in Andersonville, Tennessee, United States.

Mississippi River Trail

Once in Memphis, the route turns right onto Millington Road, right onto Carrolton Road, left onto Benjestown Road, and right onto Whitney Avenue, passing by General DeWitt Spain Airport and over the Wolf River.

Moundville Archaeological Site

The culture was expressed in villages and chiefdoms throughout the central Mississippi River Valley, the lower Ohio River Valley, and most of the Mid-South area, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as the core of the classic Mississippian culture area.

Pickwick Lake

The lakeshore plays host to two state parks: Tennessee's Pickwick Landing State Park and Mississippi's J P Coleman State Park.

Pleasant View Farm

Pleasant View Farm containing Samuel F. Glass House, Franklin, Tennessee, with a Mississippian culture archeological site

Pseudanophthalmus

Along with the monobasic genus Neaphaenops (also Jeannel) from Kentucky caves, the dibasic genus Nelsonites (Valentine) from Tennessee and Kentucky, and Trechoblemus of Eurasia and North America (Ganglbauer), it forms the “Trechoblemus complex”.

Return J. Meigs, Jr.

The first of these - called Return J. Meigs III - passed the bar in Frankfort, Kentucky, commenced law practice in Athens, Tennessee, and became prominent in Tennessee state affairs before the Civil War.

Robert G. Jones

In the 1980 presidential primaries, Jones contributed to former Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of Texas and U.S. Senator Howard Henry Baker, Jr., of Tennessee.

Roger Murrah

He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee and in 1972 made his first appearance on the national charts with "It's Raining in Seattle" by Wynn Stewart.

Shawn Sturgeon

He was a Charles Phelps Taft Fellow and studied Mexican literature and culture while living in Mexico, and a Tennessee Williams Scholar and Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Slim Harpo

In 2012 a Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey Whiskey commercial featured Harpo's song "I'm a King Bee" covered by San Francisco blues band The Stone Foxes.

Stephanie Glance

She was a special assistant at the University of Tennessee under Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest NCAA Basketball coach and was the former interim head coach of the women's basketball team at North Carolina State University, succeeding Kay Yow in 2009.

Tennessee login law

On June 1, 2011 Tennessee lawmakers passed a new bill that makes sharing login information for sites that provide music and movies, such as Netflix and Napster, illegal.

The Casinos

Thomas Robert "Bob" Armstrong Jr., led the installation of the lights on multiple suspension bridges including the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.

TPAC

Tennessee Performing Arts Center, a performing arts facility in Nashville, Tennessee.

Virginia Tech Foundation

WVTF A National Public Radio affiliate, WVTF provides public radio services via 13 transmitters to much of Virginia and portions of North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

WATN

WATN-TV, a television station (channel 25/PSIP 24) licensed to Memphis, Tennessee, United States

WAY

WAYM, a non-commercial Contemporary Christian music-format FM radio station broadcasting to the Nashville, Tennessee market

WBIN

WSAA, a radio station (93.1 FM) licensed to Benton, Tennessee, United States, known as WBIN-FM from 1996 to 1998

William Tripp

Billy Tripp (William Blevins Tripp) (b. 1955), Tennessee artist

WOPI

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