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Former Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Gary Wade is a die-hard Vol through and through. Now the Dean of Lincoln Memorial University’s Duncan School of Law, he also maintains a column for Cityview in which he offers his musings on the law, history, and life in general. You might be seeing more of Gary around town or on the lake when he retires at the end of the 2019-2020 school year.

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The Rabbit is a Hero

Gary Wade
The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt. - Thomas Cowan The Museum of Appalachia, founded by the late John Rice Irwin and now one of the region’s important non-profit organizations, has recognized some of the local…
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The Titanic & The Sultana

Gary Wade
Two tragic endings, one forgotten story At 2:20 a.m. on Sunday, April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic of the White Star Line struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. In its maiden voyage, only four days after departing the English port at…
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A War Story

Gary Wade
“Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?”“No, but I served in a company of heroes.” —Stephen Ambrose, Band of Brothers In 1998, television anchorman and journalist Tom Brokaw authored The Greatest Generation, a book profiling many of those…
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The Great Ray

Gary Wade
“If you walk into a crowded room, Ray Jenkins will be taller than anybody else, have the heaviest head of crewcut hair, look you straighter in the eye,speak with more authority, throw a more irresistible grin, kiss more women, crush more…
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The Bozeman Legacy

Gary Wade
"How One Man from Happy Holler Made a Difference." That is the subtitle of author Debbie Patrick's 2012 biographical tribute to C. Howard Bozeman, who played a key role in the Knox County political scene from 1948 through 1982. This is…
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Jurisprudence

The Barber of Sevier

Gary Wade
A tribute to the man who reminded me that we’re all just people doing our best—and the one who’s kept me looking fresh for decades Conley Sims, born in 1908, opened a barber shop on Bruce Street in downtown Sevierville almost 100 years…
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Knoxville’s Best Idea

Gary Wade
The birth of our treasured sanctuary During the next calendar year, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, far and away the nation’s most visited of the “crown jewels,” will celebrate its 90th birthday. Most of us take for granted our…
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The Call

Gary Wade
The State of Tennessee was in crisis. On Tuesday, January 16, 1979, the news media reported that the outgoing Governor, Democrat Ray Blanton, had the day before commuted the sentence of a convicted double murderer by the name of Roger…
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