The music-centric Riverbend Festival marks its 40th anniversary this weekend, while community festivals in Athens, Tenn., and LaFayette, Ga., celebrate cows and honeybees, respectively. Here s a look at those and other events around the region.
One Friday in the spring of 1971, 5-year-old train enthusiast Michael Meadows and his grandmother boarded the northbound train to Nashville at Chattanooga s Union Station. Meadows grandfather was a train man, The Chattanooga Times reported, and Michael Meadows hoped to follow suit.
Chances looked dim.