Dr. Marvin Downing will be addressing the society at the quarterly meeting. In anticipation of the upcoming talk, we talked with him about his 34-year career as a professor of history at UT Martin, his civic activities he performs and his research and knowledge of Christmasville. It was the town that time forgot, nestled away in the Tennessee woods. It would fail to take advantage of technology in railroads and slowly die down to nothing but a post office until 1903 and then nothing after that. Join us as we take a look at a now forgotten part of the…

Felix Holt, author It was indeed Felix Holt who wrote and told our story.  He was born in Murray, Calloway County, Kentucky in 1898.  From his father he learned to appreciate great literature, but was destined to complete his formal education with high school.  It was perhaps experience rather than education which proved to be the most valuable asset to Felix Holt. He was a cartoonist for Stars and Stripes, the Army newspaper in Paris, during WW I.  This led him to serve as a cartoonist and later as a reporter for the newspapers in Chicago following the War.  He…