Vol. 7, Issue 2 | Fall 2021
legacy
Sponsored by
JACKSON ENERGY AUTHORITY
editor's note
This August, Jackson-Madison County began to celebrate 200 years since its founding, and for the next year, there will be events commemorating the many facets of our city and county's history. I’m aware that my 12 years of life in Jackson are only a small part in that history, but I’m grateful for the people in this issue who have spanned almost a century of our community’s history, including our print sponsor Jackson Energy Authority, who have reached a milestone 150 years of providing service to our area.
As I was wrapping this issue up, I found myself sitting in the hospital with my grandfather as he recovered from a collapsed lung. He's a retired sports and outdoors writer for The Tennessean, with a great love of fishing. As we sat in that room and talked, he told me about how he learned to fish from his father, and how he’d go fishing every day after school even when a football injury left him in a cast. There were still stories I hadn’t heard, and I could have stayed to listen to them forever. These stories are the threads I carry back to Jackson, woven into the stories of strangers in these pages.
In talking about his work as a craftsman, a friend of mine recently said that “our stories are so much more important than anything we produce,” and I think it sums up the common thread throughout this issue. Our legacy is really about our story, and our stories are the threads that weave our community together. We're writing them, yes, with our successes and accomplishments, but also with the simplicity of our friendships and our small joys. They are stories, when seen and heard and woven together, create a fuller and more beautiful tapestry than when we're looking at our own fragmented threads.
Courtney Searcy, Editor-in-Chief
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