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Sanders, Phillip D.
Sappington, John
Schlimm, John
Schott,
Linda
Schrauger, Brian
Sedberry,
James Hamilton
Seigenthaler,
John
Shamblin, Gwen
Sharp, Timothy
Sheffield, Clarence
Sherwin, Holly
Landes
Shirley, Howard
Shockey, Peter
Silva, Suzanne
Simms,
Steve
Simpson-Giles, Candace
Skelton, Eugene
Sladek, Nancy
Slater, Carole W. Moore
Sloan, W. Keith
Slonecker, William
Smith, Barbara
Smith, Betty Hunter
Smith, Michael W.
Smith,
Scott
Smith, Wallace Joseph
Spain, Melvin and Edie
Spain, Robert H.
Speer, Michael L.
Stafford, Clay
Steele, Genevieve Lewis
Steele, William O.
Stensvaag,
John-Mark
Stephens, William M.
Stevens, Craig A.
Stith,
Ferdinando
Stofel, Robert
Stone, Lynda
Summerlin,
Cathy M.
Summerlin,
Vernon S.
Surber, Shawn-Michelle
Suzanne, Jamie
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Sanders, Phillip D. (1951- )
Phillip D. Sanders, from
Shawnee,
Oklahoma, graduated with a B.A. from
Oklahoma
Christian
College and an M.A.R. from Harding Graduate
School of Religion in
Memphis. He came to the Concord Road Church of
Christ in 1995. During his years of pastoring, he has
found time to work in radio, including research for a nationwide program, “In
Search of the Lord’s Way,” to write for periodicals, and to conduct seminars on
marriage and parenting. His first book is sold out and is being revised for
reissue, and his second book has been used as a textbook for a college class in
hermeneutics. He is presently a candidate for doctor of ministry. His latest
work, Adrift, is being published soon by Gospel Advocate Press.
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–The Evangelism Handbook, 1995
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–Let All the Earth Keep Silence, 1989
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–You Don’t Have to Worry, 1981
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Sappington, John (1778-1858)
Born in
Maryland, Dr. John Sappington moved to
Nashville and later to
Franklin.
He was one of the commissioners who laid out the town of
Franklin in 1799. A physician by profession,
Sappington practiced in
Franklin until 1817, when he and his family moved
to Missouri. There he became a leading advocate for
the use of quinine in the treatment of malaria. He manufactured Dr.
Sappington’s Anti-Fever Pills, which were used all over the South and West for
malarial symptoms. Sappington wrote the first medical book, cited below, ever
published west of the Mississippi
River. It was
released in Arrow Rock,
Missouri, in 1844.
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Schlimm,
John (1971- )
A native of St. Mary’s in western
Pennsylvania, John Schlimm
is a communications and public relations graduate of Marymount
University in
Arlington,
Virginia. A college assignment that led to his
positive communication with Barbara Bush was the beginning of his collecting
autographs. His book includes projects for teachers to use with all grade
levels. A portion of the profits benefits ASAP. After working in
Washington,
D.C., as a publicist and as producer of the
radio show “Enterprising Women,” Schlimm came to
Nashville to work with a local publicity firm. He
has written a monthly column called “The Book Collector” for Autograph Collector magazine and has
collaborated on children’s books.
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Schott, Linda
Born and reared in
Little Rock,
Arkansas, Linda Schott met her husband at
David
Lipscomb
University, where he later taught. He has served as
minister of a Nashville church. In addition to her role as
minister’s wife and mother of two, Schott has taught third grade at
Crockett
Elementary School and art at Edmundson
Elementary. She has spoken to women’s groups at retreats and seminars. She has written poetry, painted, and
published articles in both religious and educational periodicals.
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–Theodore and the
Town That Cried,
1999
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–I Stand Amazed, 1992
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-Going Through the
Motions, 1991
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–How to Triumph Over Trivia, 1989
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–Spiritual Aerobics, 1987
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Schrauger, Brian
When his young son, Taylor, was
diagnosed with terminal cancer, Brian Schrauger knew
that he would stay close to the boy through all the experience. Schrauger had grown up in
Michigan, lived eighteen years in
Dallas
Texas, and moved with his family
to
Williamson
County in 1997.
Taylor was born in
Texas but lived the last part of
his life here. His father wrote both to commemorate his son and to help and
inspire others in the same situation.
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Sedberry,
James Hamilton (1863-1931)
James Hamilton Sedberry
came to Thompson’s Station as a young man from Godwin Station in
Maury
County. He was a merchant, farmer, and grain
dealer and an ardent member of the Thompson’s Station Church of Christ. In
1905, he published the early science fiction novel cited below. It foretold a
21st-century war between Asians and Europeans in which a “super bomb” was used.
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Seigenthaler,
John (1927- )
John Seigenthaler
was born and reared in
Nashville. He began his journalism career as a cub
reporter at the Tennessean in 1949 and continued with the
newspaper until his retirement as editor and publisher in December, 1991. In
the early 1960s he became an assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in
the United States Justice Department before returning to the Tennessean. He
has been affiliated with U.S.A.
Today and with
Vanderbilt
University’s Freedom Forum, dedicated to the First
Amendment. He lived in
Williamson County for several years.
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–James
K. Polk, 2002
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–The
Year of the Scandal Called Watergate, 1974
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–An
Honorable Profession: A Tribute to
Robert F. Kennedy
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–A
Search for Justice (with contributions from James Squires, John Hemphill,
and Frank Ritter), 1971
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Shamblin, Gwen
Born to a godly but reserved family,
Gwen Shamblin learned early to turn to God in her loneliness.
She holds a Master’s degree in dietetics from UT– Knoxville. As a registered
dietician teaching at the
University of
Memphis but struggling with her own weight, she
began studying the eating habits of thin people and became convinced that the key
lay in eating only until she was full. Through prayer she gradually realized
that spiritual hunger is often mistaken for physical hunger. She began her
Weigh Down program in 1992. Her book has brought national media attention to
the program.
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–Out of Egypt: Inspirations for Conquering
Life’s Strongholds, 2000
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–Rise Above: God
Can Set You Free From Your Weight Problems Forever,
2000
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–Exodus: Daily
Devotional,
1998
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–The Weigh Down Diet,
1997
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Sharp, Timothy
Born while his father was at
Southern Baptist Seminary in
Louisville,
Kentucky, Tim Sharp grew up in his father’s
pastorates in Kentucky and
West Virginia. He attended
Belmont
College and Southern Baptist Seminary in
Louisville. He taught music in
Indiana and at King’s College in
New York. He and his wife, Jane, moved to
Franklin in 1990 when he began his music
publishing business in
Nashville. Sharp has been coordinator of church
music studies at
Belmont University. In addition to writing a monthly column
for Choral Journal, he has made
frequent contributions to other publications. Sharp has written the program
notes for twelve different CDs by the
Academy of
St. Martin in the Fields.
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–Precision Conducting: The Seven Disciplines
of the Masterful Conductor, 1996
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–Up Front! Becoming the Complete Choral
Conductor, 1993
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Sheffield, Clarence (1917 - )
Born and
reared in rural southern Alabama, Clarence Sheffield was destined to become an
observant educator and a talented gardener. He had his first advanced education
at Daphne State Teachers College on Mobile Bay and some experience in teaching
before World War II. Called up to serve in the army, he became a sergeant
fighting under MacArthur in the Philippines. Thereafter, he was able to use his
GI educational opportunities to earn his B.A. at MTSU and a Master’s degree from
Peabody with further graduate courses to his credit. He spent his life as a
teacher and principal in elementary schools in Georgia, Alabama, and mostly in
Tennessee near Chattanooga. His book is a memory and comment on his long and
observant life.
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Sherwin, Holly Landes
(1958 - )
Holly Sherwin is an award-winning
writer and nature photographer from
Franklin. She is an avid canoeist and naturalist
who spent twelve years as a canoe guide and outdoor educator in
Southwest Florida before moving to
Tennessee with her husband, Lanny. She is an
American Canoe Association certified flatwater canoe instructor and
participated in the Finlandia Clean Water Challenge marathon race, paddling
five days and 150 miles of the
Hudson
River on a surf
ski. She still leads canoe excursions into the
Everglades and is an active member of the Tennessee
Scenic Rivers Association. Holly, an active outdoor writer with numerous
publishing credits, is a field reporter and writer for PBS’s award-winning TV
show, “Tennessee’s Wildside.”
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Shirley, Howard
(1965 - )
Howard Shirley was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Florence, Alabama. His dramatic work has been influenced by his experience as a writer
for his high school newspaper and at Vanderbilt University where he studied playwriting, directing, and set design. A former advertising copywriter,
he writes monologues and short dramatic sketches,“ all intended to introduce messages on a variety of topics.” He also writes young adult and
middle-grade novels.
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Shockey, Peter
Nolensville author Peter Shockey is a screenwriter and an inspirational author.
Raised in
Bethesda,
Maryland, he majored in film at the
University of
Maryland and then interned at PBS
with an emphasis in special effects. He then spent twelve years with an
internationally syndicated television graphics company, based in
Nashville,
Tennessee. While there he developed
his trademark style of special light effects to depict spiritual phenomena
which Guideposts magazine featured as
an article called “Heavenly Visions for Earthly Eyes." These effects, and
his interest in spiritual phenomena, led to writing and producing several
documentaries for Discovery’s TLC. He received a New York Film Festival Award
for Life After
Life. Shockey’s
Doubleday book, Reflections of Heaven,
is an outgrowth of the television documentaries Life After Life, Angel Stories, and Miracles Are Real. However, the book
includes material which he thinks is better rendered in print than on the
television screen.
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–His Miraculous
Ways, 2000 or 2001
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–Reflections of
Heaven, 1999
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Simms, Steve
Though Steve Simms started life in
Jackson, his family moved frequently, and most
of them now live in
Williamson County. He has a degree in education from
UT–Martin and a Master of Divinity from Memphis Theological Seminary. He worked
in sales and as a part-time pastor before developing his current business,
Attitude Lifter Enterprises. He has spoken to groups on self-improvement,
personal selling power, and professional development and has written for
magazines, including Top Performance.
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–Your Sperm Won: Experiencing Your Value as a
Championship Human Being, 1997
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–Mindrobics: How to Be Happy for the Rest of Your Life,
1995
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Simpson-Giles, Candace
(1953- )
Simpson-Giles grew up in Nashville,
graduated from Dupont High School, and entered a lifetime of daily and eventful
experience–work, marriage, childbearing, divorce, work, child rearing,
re-marriage, widowhood, work–which prepared her well for later having her own
business, a public relations and advertising firm. She moved to
Franklin in 1998. She was requested
to write her book as part of the Gentle Manners series, a Rutledge Hill project
by several authors.
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Skelton,
Eugene (1914-2000)
Dr. Skelton’s lively interest in history
led him to write with a variety of historical settings. He was born and raised
in
McKenney,
Texas, and went to
Baylor
University for a B.A. and Southwestern
Baptist Seminary for his M.A. and Ph.D. After five years as a military chaplain
during World War II, he served as pastor in various western churches for 35
years, and went to
Nashville to work for the Baptist Sunday School Board.
While writing several books on Sunday school administration, he also was
interested in children’s literature and wrote over 200 stories for Adventure, a Baptist children’s
publication—stories which led him to work on longer children’s works. His ideas
usually grew from visits to historic settings which he then amplified with
research. In the last years of his life, he lived in
Brentwood and wrote with the
Wordsmiths.
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–A Walk in the
Light,
1980
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–The Ten Largest
Southern Baptist Sunday Schools, 1978
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–Where Action Is,
1976
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–Meet the Prophets,
1970
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Sladek, Nancy
(1943- )
Nancy Sladek
was born in the Oak
Park
area of Chicago and remained there for her education,
marriage, and first six years of teaching. Since 1976, she has lived in
Williamson
County. While teaching at
Scales
Elementary School, she wrote units for use with upper
elementary grades in the work cited below. With Barbara Depp,
she also co-authored The Guide to the
Scales Nature Trail. Sladek enjoyed teaching
writing to her fifth-graders and encouraging students with special talent.
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Slater, Carole W. Moore
Carole Moore Slater was originally
from
Nashville, but she has lived in
Franklin for many years. She has been project coordinator
for the Tennessee Disability Information and Referral Office, a statewide
information service housed in
Peabody
College at
Vanderbilt
University. Her book, Dana Doesn’t Like Guns Anymore, is the winner of two
awards: “Kind Writers Make Kind Readers” and “A Book Can Develop Empathy.” She
has also written essays and articles.
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–A Guide For Parents
& Teachers: Supplement to Dana Doesn’t Like Guns Anymore, 1996
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–Dana Doesn’t Like Guns Anymore, 1989,
1992
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Sloan, W. Keith
Keith
Sloan was born in Iowa, educated at the University of Michigan, and spent fifty
years in the insurance business.
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Slonecker,
William
A pediatrician for forty-three
years, William Slonecker began his higher education
at
Trevecca
Nazarene
College and
Vanderbilt
University. He received his M.D. from the
University of
Tennessee in 1958. During his years of practice,
he served on the staff of six
Nashville hospitals. He was on the Board of
Trustees and Chief of Staff of Southern Hills Medical Center, instructor in
pediatrics at
Vanderbilt
Medical
Center, and on the Board of Directors of the
Baptist Health Care Group. In 1972, he founded the Christian Counseling
Services to be a support system for families. Slonecker
helped the State of
Tennessee develop guidelines for licensing day
care centers. He has lived in
Brentwood. One of his children collaborated with
him on this book.
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Smith, Barbara
During her
West Virginia childhood, Barbara Smith
discovered the joys of good cooking from her Italian stepmother. As an adult,
she developed a wide repertory of recipes for her catering business, which over
its thirteen years grew from small church events to occasions for several
hundred people. She and her husband moved to
Franklin in 1994. Within a month her
son, Michael W. Smith, asked her to help with a festive dinner when he launched
a new record. From that occasion grew her cookbook, filled with family stories
as well as recipes.
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Smith, Betty Hunter
(1891-1969)
Betty Hunter Smith was a native of
Paris,
Tennessee, and moved to
Franklin in 1919 shortly after she married local
lawyer and judge, Wallace Smith. She was active in the
Methodist
Church and in many civic enterprises,
particularly those dealing with history. A charter member and active leader of
the Allied Arts Club, she created many of its programs. In addition to the
books she published, Smith wrote articles for newspapers and journals and plays
for several local organizations.
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–A Door to Happy Land, 1968
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–Flood-Gates: A Book of Verse, 1931
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Smith, Michael W.
Born and educated in the small
West Virginia town of
Kenova, Michael W. Smith made up songs from the
age of five, but originally wanted to be a professional baseball player. After
a year and a half of trying college and other routes, he came to
Nashville hoping to begin a career as a songwriter
and musician. He has written songs for Amy Grant and other performers and has
performed his own creations. Smith has lived in
Franklin since 1988. He has been actively
involved with local youth and with “Compassion Kids,” sponsoring aid for
Ecuadorian children.
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–Price
of Fredom, 2002
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–I
Will Be Your Friend: the Value of Friendship for a Lifetime, 2001
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–Worship
(with Wendy Lee Nentwig), 2001
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–Old Enough to Know: What Teenagers Need to Know About Life
and Relationships,
2000
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–This Is your Time: Make Every Moment Count (with Gary Thomas), 2000
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–Michael W. Smith/Live the Life, 1999
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–Where’s Whitney? (with Debbie Smith), 1999
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–Your Place in This World: Discovering God’s Will for the
Life in Front of You (with Michael Nolan),
1998
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–It’s
Time to Be Bold, 1997
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–Friends
Are Friends Forever: And Other Encouragement from
God’s Word, 1997
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–En Edad Para Saber/Old Enough to
Know (with Fritz Ridenour), 1996
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–Change Your World,
1993
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–Old Enough to Know, 1987
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–Lambs Among Wolves (with Bob Briner)
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Smith, Scott
After growing up in the Piedmont
Region of North Carolina, Scotty Smith studied religion at the
University of
North Carolina in
Chapel Hill and at Westminster Theological Seminary
in Philadelphia, thinking that he would teach, but
finding himself called to youth ministry. In 1979 he came to
Nashville where he served at First Presbyterian
Church. In 1981, he helped organize Christ Presbyterian Church on
Old Hickory Boulevard,
Nashville, and in 1986 he founded its daughter
church, Christ
Community
Church in
Franklin, where he remains senior pastor.
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–Reign
of Grace: the Delights and Demands of God’s Love, 2003
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–Objects of His Affection,
2001
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–Speechless: Living in Awe of God’s Disruptive Grace
(with
Steven Curtis Chapman), 1999
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–Unveiled
Hope: Eternal Encouragement from the Book of Revelation (with Michael
Card), 1997
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Smith, Wallace Joseph
(1890-1979)
Judge Wallace Smith, a native of
Nolensville, lived in
Franklin for most of his adult life and served
the city both as alderman and as mayor. He received his law degree from
Cumberland
University, practiced law in
Franklin, and served in
France during World War I. He served 34 years
on the bench of Tennessee’s various courts, including periodically
the Supreme Court. He was twice called out of retirement to heavy assignments.
Smith wrote two volumes providing annotated instructions to juries in civil and
criminal cases in
Tennessee.
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–Tennessee
Jury Instructions, Criminal Cases,
1965
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–Tennessee
Jury Instructions, Civil Cases,
1963
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Spain, Melvin and Edie
Both
natives of Middle Tennessee and graduates of the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, the Spains acquired experience and developed their ideas about money
from the community of Williamson County. In 1978 Melvin Spain bought an
accounting practice in Franklin where the couple chose to live. This firm became
Spain and Higginbotham, located on the Square in Franklin. Edie had business
experience in retail and also taught design. In 1993 they began working together
as volunteers for Crown Financial ministries, a financial advisory entity which
operates on the small group model. They became interested in how money creates
stress at any level of financial status. Their book is an outgrowth of a desire
to aid people in dealing with this type of stress.
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Spain,
Robert H. (1925- )
Bishop Robert H. Spain was born in Loretto in 1925. He studied pre-med at the
University of
Tennessee and then attended the
University of
North Alabama, Scarritt
College, and
Vanderbilt
University. His pastorates have included United Methodist
congregations in Livingston,
Lebanon, Belle Meade, and
Brentwood. As a United Methodist bishop, his
jurisdictions included
Kentucky and
South Carolina. Bishop
Spain’s church appointments have included the
General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, the General Council on
Ministries, and the General Board of Publications, and in retirement as
Chaplain of the United Methodist Publishing House. A revered speaker and
minister, he has continued to live in
Brentwood.
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–Getting Ready to Preach, 1996
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–How to Stay Alive as Long as You Live:
Practical Guides for Christian Living, 1993
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Speer, Michael L.
A native of
Missouri, Michael Speer earned a Master’s degree in
religious education from the Southern Baptist Seminary in
Louisville,
Kentucky. His denominational work has included
fifteen years with the Stewardship Commission of the Southern Baptist
Convention in Nashville during which he published many training
materials and four books connected with his work. He has also been a certified
financial planner with American Express. Speer and his wife have reared two
daughters, one of whom, Melinda Mahand, is a
Williamson
County writer.
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–Financial Fitness for the Single Person,
1986
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–Financial Planning for Newlyweds, 1984
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–Put Your Best Foot Forward: A Guide for Men
on How to Dress, 1975
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–A Complete Guide to the Christian’s Budget,
1973
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Stafford, Clay
Clay Stafford has worked for
Universal Studios, PBS, and other screen production companies prior to making
his home in
Williamson
County. His career as a screen, stage, and
literary writer, film and book editor, music composer and arranger,
film/TV/stage producer, director, and actor has garnered him several national
awards and foreign distribution of his work. He has earned B.A. and M.F.A.
degrees and taught at several universities. His short stories, essays, and
poems have been regularly published in national literary journals, and he has
reviewed books, plays, and films for a worldwide print and media audience. He
moved to Franklin in 1995. The list below includes
selected examples of his credits.
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–The
Georgia
Performer’s Directory,
1995
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–The
Tennessee
Performer’s Directory,
1995
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–How to Win Auditions: An Actor’s Guide to
Success (script), 1994
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–Boston:
Esquire Magazine Travel Series
(video script), 1991
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–California:
Esquire Magazine Travel Series
(video script), 1991
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–Florida:
Esquire Magazine Travel Series
(video script), 1991
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–New
York: Esquire Magazine Travel Series (video script), 1991
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–Patterns of Power (script), 1990
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–The Awards Catalogue, 1989
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–Marine Inboard Diesel Engine Maintenance
(script), 1989
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–Marine Inboard Gasoline Engine Maintenance
(script), 1989
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–Michael (script), 1989
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–Tell Me Why: From
Kitty
Hawk to the Moon (script), 1989
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–Know Business Like
Show Business, 1986
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Steele, Genevieve Lewis
(1888-1968)
“Miss
Genevieve” was a lifelong resident of
Williamson
County, who was described upon her death as its
“finest citizen.” She graduated from the
Tennessee
Female
College in 1905 and moved to
Franklin in 1919. After the death of her husband
in 1927, she supported her four sons by teaching and working as a secretary at
the Tennessee Highway Department. Her single book of poetry, published by her
sons after her death, was a great favorite of county residents.
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Steele, William
O.
(1917-1979)
William Owen Steele, the second writer inducted into the Williamson County
Authors’ Hall of Fame, was born in Williamson County, the descendant of pioneer
families. He graduated from Franklin High School and Cumberland University
before serving in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. After the war, he
and his wife, Mary Govan (daughter of Christine Noble Govan), moved to her
hometown, Chattanooga, where he did graduate work at the University of
Chattanooga. He lived the rest of his life on Signal Mountain. His more than 40
books were historical, both fiction and nonfiction, and mostly directed to the
young reader. His books won many literary awards, including a Newbury Honorable
Mention and the Thomas Alva Edison Award.
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–The
Magic Amulet, 1979
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–Talking
Bones: Secrets of Indian Burial Mounds, 1978
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–The War
Party, 1978
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–The
Cherokee Crown of Tannassy, 1977
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–The Man
with the Silver Eyes, 1976
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–The
Lone Hunt, 1976
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–The Eye
in the
Forest
(with Mary Q. Steele), 1975
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–Henry
Woodward of
Carolina,
Surgeon, Trader, Indian Chief,
1972
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–Triple
Trouble for Hound Dog Zip, 1972
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–The
Wilderness Tattoo, 1972
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–Hound
Dog Zip to the Rescue, 1970
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–The
Old Wilderness Road: An American Journey,
1968
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–Tomahawk
Border, 1966
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–Trail
Through Danger, 1965
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–The
No-Name Man of the Mountain, 1964
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–WAYAH
of the Real People, 1964
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–The
Year of the Bloody Sevens, 1963
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–Westward
Adventure: The True Stories of Six Pioneers, 1962
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–The Spooky
Thing,
1960
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–The Far
Frontier, 1959
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–Andy
Jackson’s Water Well, 1959
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–The
Perilous Road, 1958, 1990
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–Daniel
Boone’s Echo, 1957
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–Flaming
Arrows, 1957,1990
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–Davy
Crockett’s Earthquake, 1956
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–We Were
There with the Pony Express, 1956
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–The
Lone Hunt, 1956
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–DeSoto,
Child of the Sun: the Search for Gold, 1956
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–We Were
There on the
Oregon
Trail, 1955
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–Tomahawks
and Trouble, 1955
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–Winter
Danger, 1954, 1990
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–Francis
Marion:
Young Swamp
Fox,
1954, 1962
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–The
Story of Leif Ericson, 1954
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–The
Story of Daniel Boone, 1953
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–John
Sevier: Pioneer Boy, 1953
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–Wilderness
Journey, 1953
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–Over-Mountain
Boy, 1952
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–The
Buffalo Knife,
1952, 1990
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–The
Golden Root, 1951
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Stensvaag,
John-Mark (1947- )
Born and educated in
Minneapolis,
Minnesota, Stensvaag
majored in political science and history at
Augsburg
College and received a J.D. degree
from
Harvard
University. In 1979 he began teaching
at the Vanderbilt University School of Law and in 1987 began teaching at the
University of Iowa College of Law. Beginning in his
student days, Stensvaag was interested in environmental
law and later taught several courses related to the environment. At Vanderbilt
in 1985, he received the Paul J. Hartman Award for Excellence in Teaching. At
that time he lived in Cottonwood of Franklin. At
Iowa in 1989 and in 2002 he
received the Collegiate Teaching Award.
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–Materials on
Environmental Law, 1999
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–Hazardous Waste:
Law and Practice, 1986, 1998
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–Clean Air Act 1990
Amendments, 1990
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Stephens, William M. (1925- )
A native of
Chattanooga and a former resident of
Brentwood, William Stephens has
owned a Brentwood law firm representing the elderly and
disabled. His articles and photographs have appeared in numerous national
publications, including the Smithsonian
and National Geographic. One of his
latest books deals with his spiritual history since 1969 when a near-death
experience changed his life. He has been a follower of Avatar Meher Baba for years; he and his wife have visited
India many times because of this connection.
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–Souls on Fire, 1998
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–Footprints in the Sand, 1997
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–Southern Seashores, 1968
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–Science Beneath the
Sea: The Story of Oceanography, 1966
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–Our World Underwater, 1962
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Children’s
Books:
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–Life in a Tide Pool, 1975
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–Islands, 1974
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–A Day in the Life of a Sandy Beach, 1973
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–Life in the
Open
Sea, 1972
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–Come with Me to the Edge of the Sea,
1972
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–Hermit Crab Lives in a Shell, 1969
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Life Cycle
Series, all with Peggy Stephens, 1968–73
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–Flamingo: Bird of Flame, 1972
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–Sea Turtle Swims in the Ocean, 1971
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–Killer Whale: Mammal of the Sea, 1971
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–Seahorse:
Fish in Armor, 1969
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–Octopus Lives in the Ocean, 1968
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Stevens, Craig A.
Craig Stevens co-authored the Geronimo Stone series and the Linked Management Models and paints covers for books as an accomplished artist
in oils and acrylics. Mr. Stevens combines adventure stories with very practical business and management advice.
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–Geronimo Stone, Vol. 1, His Music, His Love, and the Mobile of Excellent Management, 2006 e-book
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Stith,
Ferdinando (deceased, dates unknown)
Dr. Ferdinando
Stith, a
Williamson
County physician with whom Dr. John Sappington
had become acquainted in college and during his residency in
Franklin, is listed on the title page of The Theory and Treatment of Fevers as a
collaborator in its authorship. In the 1830s he was president pro tem of the
Tennessee Medical Association. It is believed that Sappington spent the winter
of 1843–44 in Franklin, reviewing revisions to the book with Stith.
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