One of my bosses recently suggested I write a column on why Tennessee, not Texas, is the real “UT.” I immediately composed an ...

Let’s look at the evidence. How about if we start in the great state of Tennessee (home of Davy Crockett, you know; any of you old guys still got the coonskin hat we all had when Fess Parker was ...

(Home of Davy Crockett, you know. Any of you old guys still got the coonskin hat we all had when Fess Parker was all the rage on TV?) Tennessee started a deer hunt for bucks in velvet a few years ago.

That hit a nerve. I was a big Davy Crockett fan long before I moved to Tennessee. I had a coonskin hat and a toy musket as a kid. I even called the musket “Old Betsy,” just like Davy’s ...

Donning a coonskin cap, he told his audiences ... a howling wind and the prop wash of several other planes. Nancy’s hat was imperiled, her skirt began to balloon. Says she: “Just as ...

3. The tinfoil hat’s clue tells us that the coonskin cap costs $1. 4. Let’s look at the three hats adjacent to the bowler hat; the fedora, the top hat and the viking helmet. As we previously ...

So many decisions to make. Do you go to Park Toyland and buy a Davy Crockett coonskin hat? Like the kind Davy and his sidekick Jed Clampett wore at the Alamo? I enjoyed playing marbles with Jack ...