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acknowledgments Most of these essays originally appeared as Sam Venable’s columns in the Knoxville News Sentinel. They have been edited for book use and may differ somewhat from their original form. The author gratefully acknowledges permission from the Knoxville News Sentinel to reprint this material. He also thanks illustrator Tommy Smith and cover photographer Paul Efird for their excellent graphics contributions to this effort, along with Scot Danforth and the entire staff of the University of Tennessee Press for their continued help and guidance. And, as always, the author is ever-appreciative of his sainted wife, Mary Ann—not only for lovingly and patiently abiding his nuttiness for more than four decades, but also for her incomparable computer skills, without which this book would have remained nondescript boxes of newspaper clippings in the upstairs closet. She thanks him for finally getting rid of them. ...

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