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VOL. 5, NO. 41
OCTOBER 10, 2011
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Farragut High School senior Caylee Carter was recently crowned 2011 homecoming queen by last year’s queen, Katie Cargo. Photo submitted.
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Folklife Museum celebrates 25th anniversary Will the real John Whitehead please stand up? Sandra Clark says there are two choices. See her column on page A-5
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Albers hosts Civil War reunion This is the second installment of Dr. J.C. Tumblin’s tale of A.J. Albers. A segment of his work, “Fountain City: Facts, Myths and Mysteries” See page A-6
By Natalie Lester The Farragut Folklife Museum celebrated its 25th anniversary last week, and the volunteers showed no sign of slowing down any time soon. Approximately 120 people attended the anniversary banquet. Volunteers who have been working in the museum for 10 years or more were each honored with a plaque. Those who had served 20 or more years were given a lifetime membership to the museum. “Volunteers are so important to our museum,” said museum coordinator Julia Jones-Barham. “Without the help of the many volunteers who have donated their time, this museum would not exist. Each and every volunteer does such a fantastic job and I am so grateful to have such a wonderful group to work with.” More than 60 volunteers currently work in the museum and gift shop. The museum also released its first cookbook, which is made up of 250 recipes from committee members and volunteers. The book is now available for purchase in the museum gift shop. “We hope the cookbook will help to preserve all of the wonderful, traditional recipes from the Concord and Farragut area,” Jones said. “Many
The Farragut Folklife Museum last week celebrated its 25th anniversary and honored volunteers who have served 10 or more years. Photo submitted. of those who live in this area will recognize several of the names and recipes. We are sure those who purchase it will find many happy hours around the table with family and good food.” On Oct. 21, Gerald Augustus will be at the museum to speak on Civil War weaponry at 6:30
p.m. Augustus will demonstrate how the primary firearms were used in the 1861-1865 period. Several of Augustus’ personal Civil War collection items are currently in the special exhibit gallery, but the items will be removed from the museum after his lecture.
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Body of work Bass says teaching is highlight By Wendy Smith Dr. Bill Bass has several claims to fame. As head of UT’s anthropology department, he founded the Body Farm, the nation’s first research facility dedicated to studying how the human body decays. He has helped identify remains in over 700 cases in Tennessee and has co-written seven books, including six fictional works about Dr. Bill Brockton, a character based on Bass. But his foremost contribution has been as a teacher, he says. Bass treats each case he investigates as an opportunity to educate both students and law
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enforcement officers. Education is in his blood. His grandfather and mother were teachers, and his father was chair of the Stephens City, Va., school board for 35 years. When the William M. Bass Forensic Anthropology Building at UT was dedicated recently, he became the third member of his family to have an educational facility named after him. Bass stumbled upon the field that would become his passion almost by accident. As an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he took an anthropology class. He’s not sure he even knew what anthropology was at the time. He first planned to get a master’s degree in counseling at the University of Kentucky but quickly changed his major to anthropology.
Bill Bass enjoys a break from book signings with his pooch, Trey, at his West Knoxville home. Photo by Wendy Smith He knew he had chosen the right career when a professor invited him to tag along as he identified the remains of a woman killed in a fiery truck crash. That was Bass’ “Aha!” moment, and the only case that has ever made him sick. He taught at the University of Kansas for more than
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10 years before UT hired him in 1971. Anthropology offices were located in former student dorms under Neyland Stadium, and shortly after Bass arrived, a body was sent to him by the state medical examiner. Lacking an appropriate space for storing the body, he put it in a shower stall in the men’s room that served as the janitor’s closet. “The best chewing out I ever had came from that janitor,” he recalls. Not long after that, Bass approached UT Dean Alvin Nielsen to ask for some property for storing bodies. He was given space at a sow barn at UT’s Holston Farm, a 45-minute drive from campus. He was later given three acres behind UT Medical Center. “That’s when we really began to do research on dead bodies,” he said. His notion of a facility dedicated to studying decomposition began when he was
asked to help ranchers who were losing cattle in the late 1960s. Thieves would butcher cattle in the fields and leave the carcasses behind. The ranchers thought the culprits might be tracked through the sale of the meat if Bass could determine how long the cows had been dead. Bass said he could if he had four dead cows to track the rate of decomposition in each of the four seasons. The ranchers didn’t comply. The Body Farm was unprecedented, aside from research done in 13th century China, Bass says. In the past five years, several similar sites have been established in the U.S. He knows his 40 years of work in East Tennessee have paid off when he gets a call from a law enforcement officer who was able to determine the race and sex of a body because of the training received from Bass. “It makes you feel good, really,” he says.
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