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

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 ...

Another redskin tried his hand at scalping and went to work on the coonskin hat of an opponent. The hat, however, was tied on, so no damage was done, at least to the hat. A third man in red got ...

It all began with the Davy Crockett coonskin hat craze and a bunch of Bohemians yearning to swathe themselves in decades-old fur These three artists come from a long tradition of creating wearable ...

(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.

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 ...

Kids — well, boys anyway — ran around with their coonskin hats and toy guns, emulating the frontier folk hero who briefly dominated 1950s pop culture. But who was the man behind this early craze?

Although the nod eventually went to Kefauver of Tennessee, who often wore a coonskin hat, his closest rival, the youthful Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, benefited from the national ...

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 ...