Vince Staten
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Monday, October 19, 2026
Belles, Balls, and Bravos
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Kingsport's Debutantes - The Symphony Belles I stumbled across this unusual Kingsport Times-News section front from February 1963. It w...
Saturday, August 29, 2026
What If Dolly Gave a Show in Kingsport and Nobody Came
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The Night Only 200 People Showed Up to a Dolly Parton Concert In the days immediately after her death, Dolly Parton was the subject of at ...
Sunday, August 02, 2026
D-B Turns 100!
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Dobyns-Bennett High School, the name anyway, turns 100 this school year. Whether you count the centennial date as the start of school, whi...
Friday, July 03, 2026
Happy 111th Birthday
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Happy Birthday, Daddy... My father would turn 111 today. He was born on the Day Before the Fourth of July in 1915 in a sharecropper's ...
Friday, May 22, 2026
Living on Coffee and Scoops
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This is my favorite picture of Frank (far left). It was the fall of 1970 and Frank Gibson was the Editor-in-Chief of the UT Daily Beacon, th...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
The First and Only Time They Held the State Basketball Tournament in Kingsport
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STATE TOURNAMENT HELD IN D-B GYM IN 1938! 1926 photo of new Dobyns-Bennett High School. Gym is on far end. When Coach Wilkes told us, nob...
Friday, February 27, 2026
The Music of Your Life
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There was always music in our house when I was a kid. Neither of my parents played a musical instrument but they could play the radio. A...
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