Your Wednesday at a glance:
- Weather: High 76, cloudy
- What to drink: California chardonnay with your apple buttermilk biscuits and fried chicken dinner – which could soon be an option at Tennessee Cracker Barrels.
- What to do: Attend the re-re-scheduled Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival – online. Virtual ROO-ALITY begins this Thursday evening.
- What we’re excited about: This new box set of rare, unreleased Elton John songs.
Greetings, Chattanooga!
Kids today. They just “don’t speak Southern anymore,” Mark Kennedy mused in his weekend column. To prove his point, he sat his son down and asked him to interpret a list of Southernisms and colloquial expressions – from “heavens to Betsy” to “he won’t hit a lick at a snake.”
How’d his son do? Read the story, and test your own skills here.
And now, a few recent stories:
U.S. consumers paid down $118 billion in credit card debt during the first half of 2020 – an all-time record. So, which states paid down the most? See the list here.
A Chattanooga respiratory therapist shares what it’s like to treat COVID-19 patients.
And, Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Bryan Johnson has been named the 2021 Tennessee Superintendent of the Year.
– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com
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