In A Treasury of Tennessee Tales you'll discover:

Who painted -See Rock City- signs on barns?

What man, born in Nashville, became president of Nicaragua?

What were the best excuses moonshiners gave to the -revenooers- when their stills were discovered.

How Nathan Bedford Forrest won a naval battle in Tennessee during the Civil War.

From all over the state, Tennesseans sent James Ewing their favorite stories. It Happened in Tennessee contains the most fascinating, the most interesting, and the strangest of those stories, including

• Tennessee's biggest man, Mills Darden from Lexington, who was seven feet, six inches tall and weighed 1,020 pounds.
• The eight thousand people who attended the funeral Felix -Uncle Bush- Breazeale gave in Roane County?for himself
• A ghost named Mary who always sits in Row C, Seat 5, in the Orpheum Theater in Memphis.
• How a letter from Harry...