You're right, it's beautiful country with plenty of million dollar views of the mountains.

Actually I'm a bit of a "ferner" here in Sevier County.

I was born in Oak Ridge shortly after WWII.

My dad ran a uranium proccessing lab at the Y-12 plant during the Manhattan project.

He was only in his mid twenties!

He had come down from Mansfield, Ohio, (where Robert Franco and Source of Title are from).

His lab ran 24 hours a day, seven days a week and had three shifts of workers.

My mother, a young woman from Sheffield, Alabama, was one of the technicians in his lab.

They were attracted to each other like two oppositely charged particles and I'm the result of their fusion. Ha ha.

My dad told me there was so much uranium dust floating around the lab that the workers sneezed yellow. My mother eventually died of cancer, as much a casualty of the war, as anyone else. Many of those early atomic workers shared her fate.

My dad is Forrest Neil Case. Who was your papaw and dad...maybe I knew them. I lived in Oak Ridge from my birth (1947) to 1966 when I went off to college.

As for Grainger County, everybody knows that the best tomatoes you can anywhere are good ole Granger County "maters".

Have a great day Scott.

- Dave Case