
![]() COCKE County Seat: You may have seen a television show called Christy, about a woman who leaves her home to go teach in a fictional place called Cutters Gap. Well, it really happened in Cocke County was also the home of one of the finest writers of stories and books about Tennessee. Her name was Wilma Dykeman; among her best-known words were The French Broad, The Tall Woman, and Tennessee: A Bicentennial History. From 1981 until 2002, Dykeman was the official Tennessee state historian, a post now held by Walter Durham of Sumner County.
Click here to read Dykeman's 2006 obituary in the Asheville Citizen-Times. |
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