You can almost picture Tom and Huck pushing their raft off the sand bar
and heading out for adventure around the bend.
But that was another time and this is a different river. This is the
Nolachuckey River in east Tennessee - a scenic river that snakes through
the county where I live and provides drinking water, recreation and
beautiful views. Along its banks are some of the best farmland in the
area, producing bumper crops of tomatoes, watermelon, beans and peppers.
It's also along these banks that Davy Crockett was born
- not on a mountain top as the song says.