Dr. Rev. Teilman and his wife Wava were Methodist Missionaries in Singapore for more than 30 years. My brother George was able to visit with them several times while Dr. Rev. Teilman was in Singapore and while both were traveling into Thailand (See this letter while traveling to Cambodia 1975). While a minister at the Tazewell Methodist Church in the 1940's, he brought my brother's into the Church. My brother always felt it was divine intervention that he worked for many years, all the way around the world, close to the small town minister that brought him into his Church. It was learned that Rev. Teilman has passed away but it is hoped that his wife Wava will join the congregation of the Tazewell United Methodist Church for it's 100 year celebration this coming October 5, 2008.

July 14, 2008 - Chattanooga Times Free Press - The interstate drama over pollution in North Carolina from TVA's coal-fired power plants in Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky takes center stage today in a federal courtroom in Asheville, N.C. July 23, 2008 - EPA official: TVA skirted the law by Anne PAINE - TVA each year has been "unlawfully" releasing about 300,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and about 130,000 tons of ozone-forming nitrogen oxide, he said. That's on top of legal emissions As an Energy Advisor, yes spelled A-D-V-I-S-O-R, for TVA I learned a lot about the agency as it was in the late 1970's. Concern for conservation measures took a backseat to issues of the need for power production. I was taught concern for the environment at an early age and meeting those that would lead TVA into the future shocked me. Corporate greed is prevalent in that agency and many important issues are overlooked because of it. Can you believe that as late as 2008 that TVA is making it's employees suffer by cutting their own energy usage down by setting their building thermostat's to a temperature that would actually save electricity. Yes, with the salaries that they make they should be made to sweat it out with ceiling and window fans in the summer and sit by wood or corn burning stoves in the winter. Energy Crisis in a Nutshell. Conservation, if practiced, would have saved the world all this worry about the ozone had been hammered into everyone's brain as it was mine during the 1970's. A silly title, especially during the 1970's. Who needed an Energy Advisor just after the big fiasco when we all sat in gas lines and cringed at $1.00 a gallon gas. Well evidently not Claiborne County, heck Claiborne County didn't need anyone telling them they needed to cut their energy costs, they didn't use much energy at all. Well, after that little job as Energy Advisor, I took to cutting firewood and hauling it through a program with East Tennessee Human Resources called their Energy Assistance Program. I did it for about three years and hauled so much firewood that the Soil Conservation Service decided to give me an award as Conservation Farmer of the Year in 1982. Now does that say anything about HOW I think the Energy Crisis and all this smoke about there being a pollution problem SHOULD have been handled but isn't. If my electric bill goes above $100.00 I worry. I must say I use far too much gasoline, driving back and forth to work but that is because I would rather live in an area that isn't constantly under a pollution alert. I think I hear the Passenger Train whistle blowing, don't want to be late for work, better run. The Fielden and Hazel McNeely House about 2000. GOING GOING - GONE - Click on picture for more. Luckily Harrogate has taken care of many of their older houses. I plan on putting several online. First will be the Judge William and Hazel Davis House. The same house 2007 - A couple reasons my site is back up is correspondence from Millie Baumgardner Gladney. George Livesay, seated second from left, came from Hancock County about 1870 to begin his poultry business in Claiborne County. He was by all account a staunch Republican but became disgruntled with the politics of Claiborne County. He moved to Knoxville about 1908 and began a poultry business on Market Street. Below is one of his last Announcements in the New Tazewell Times - a business he owned and was editor of. His interest in using the railroad line that ran between Lone Mountain, New Tazewell and Knoxville for industry was evident in his articles. More on what George Livesay referred to as the Spout Spring Village Republicans. Only two pages of the New Tazewell Times that he began in 1901 are recorded in the microfilm records that I can find. I have attempted to scan and transcribe much of what he was trying to do to bring new business to the railroad town of New Tazewell, Tennessee. CLICK HERE. Is the house above the next along back street Tazewell to be torn down? Click on Picture for What I heard.

Are we as concerned as we should be about our drinking water? I have taken an active stand against pollution form many years and have found that much of what I feel matters very little to most people. Should we endanger our water supply in the NAME OF PROGRESS How a true timber sale should be conducted. Some States require such practices, should Tennessee?? "And we feel sure the music of this great State is assured." I don't think he was talking about "Rocky Top", or was he? President John F. Kennedy "90th Anniversity of Vanderbilt University" May 1963 The old DELCO HOUSE that was used by my Grandfather Lafayette G. Payne during the 1920's is still standing Movie "Wild River" - 1960 - A young field administrator (Montgomery Clift) for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Directed by Elia Kazan That is Hollywood's version. An example would be taking some of the brightest from the local area and "using" them to persuade the people to give up their land. I was contacted by Mr. Baker's grandson from the pictures below asking me to assist with information regarding his grandfather's mysterious death. If he is still coming to my site please contact me. Joe Payne Uncle Lafayette G. Payne, Jr. worked for the land acqusition office of TVA in 1933-1934 "Wild River". Another Uncle, John Archer, was President of Nantahala Power and Light, Franklin, N.C. Grandfather Joseph Phillips was first with Power and Light Company in Claiborne County. Well, I was the first TVA Energy Advisor, should I not be famous? Environmental Protection Agency models show more than 1,200 Americans die prematurely every year due to TVA’s power plant pollution and thousands more suffer from respiratory ailments, including asthma. More on this can be found on the National Resource Defense Council website. Brand New Old Photos from Ann Doege of the Lone Mountain area. See if you can help us locate where these pictures were taken. I think they are a large part of the Shenandoah Springs. Congress passed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act in 1933 as one innovative program of the New Deal designed to pull the American economy out of the Great Depression. TVA developed fertilizers, helped farmers improve crop yields, replanted forests, controlled flooding, and generated electricity for the inhabitants of the valley. In the 1940s and World War II, TVA shifted its focus to hydroelectric projects that created 28,000 jobs. By the 1950s, TVA could not keep up with the demand for electricity because of its dependence on government financing. In 1959 TVA was granted by Congress the right to be a self-financing program no longer dependent on and limited by government appropriations. TVA has long been a controversial entity, largely because of its government connection and its practices of acquiring farm lands in order to build dams that create electricity. In 1947 President Harry S. Truman created the Federal Employees Loyalty Program which reviewed federal employees and fired them if any doubt was evident about the employee's loyalty. The House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC), as well as Joseph McCarthy's efforts, increased the search for communists in America. Thus began "The Red Scare" around 1948 and extended through the mid-1950s and was caused by a variety of factors, some of which include the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenburg for espionage, who by the way, had a brother-in-law, David Greenglass working at Oak Ridge, Tn. Also the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union's acquisition of an atomic bomb, and communist revolution in China added to the scare. Widespread beliefs that communist spies and sympathizers were in America working towards her demise only added to the paranoia of the times. The Oak Ridge worker, Greenglass turned state's evidence against the Rosenbergs in return for immunity for his wife, who had served as his courier. In 1954 the Atomic Energy Act and Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" (AUDIO)program dictated a revision of the AEC classification guide to make information available for industrial development of nuclear energy. Thus was the era of Korea and Kruschev, I Like Ike, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, "Blue Suede Shoes", Peter Pan, the Kinsey Report. June Clever and Joseph McCarthy, the Edsel and Sputnik, the Hula hoop and the H-bombs. More information regarding George Livesay "What countless and magnificent escapes even the best of us in our short career and what fatalities we clutch which we should have shuned with horror. And how easy it is now to look back on our lost battlefields that might have been victorys had we stopped to read the grim lesson of experience, the threatening danger that stared us in the face at every turn in life when prosperity had been blighted and pledges had been broken and promises had been forgotten. All because we fainted under the banner of King Credit, but now have come again with the bullion, the stuff that will buy the world, with goods that is unexcelled in quality, and with prices that will prove to you that the Almighty Dollar is King of the World. And thanks to my many friends, I will prove to you if you will visit me and examine my goods, that I am on top. I will pay you cash for your produce and will redeam every pledge I have made to living man, and will continue to condemn without fear, thievery, robbery, corruption and dishonesty in the future as I have in the past."

Below are the surnames of projects I have done for other people:

Hill	Baird	Burkhart	Dunn	Freshour	McMillan	Sherrod
Franklin	Gentry	Shelton	Bowman	Mask/Ard	Young	Baskin
Rinker	Hurt	Redman	Yoakum	McNeeley	Stanifer/Standifer	Cawood