To various Chattanoogans, Dr. Larry Ingle is a retired University of Tennessee at Chattanooga history professor, inveterate letters-to-the-editor writer and irritant of the comfortable.
However, he’s better known nationally – at least among Quakers, which he acknowledges is a “small world” – as a Quaker historian.
For Dr. Ingle’s scholarly body of work about the faith and to recognize his upcoming 75th birthday, he was honored recently with the publishing – a surprise to him – of a Festschrift, a volume of writings by different authors and presented as a tribute.
The work, “Keeping Us Honest, Stirring the Pot: A Festschrift in Honor of H. Larry Ingle,” was presented to him earlier this month at the Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting of Quakers in Swanannoa, N.C.
The publication contains a biographical sketch, new or newly gathered works on the faith, reminiscences on the honoree, a group of his shorter works and a bibliography of his work.