Carolyn Nash:  

I moved a lot growning up as a preacher's kid; was in both Logan, Mt. Hope and Oak Hill, High Schools. I completed a bachelor of science degreen in mechanical engineering in Spring of 1987. The extended duration was due, in part, to my co-op semesters with TVA in Muscle Shoals, AL (yes, I spelled that right) and due to college being so much damn fun. I stayed five years with General Electric as a factory rep doing turbine-generator installation and maintenance oversight at various customer plants in the mid-Altantic states. When they sent me to Oswego, NY and offered Guam, I decided I'd had enough of life on the road. Hotels and eating out only looks glamorous to those not doing it. It was lonely at night, but I loved the comraderie of the construction workers. I married a college buddy, Bill Nash, and we moved to Kingsport, TN where I am now and will probably retire. I did some masters classes at UT's extension facility, but didn't stick with that. At work, I moved within utility & waste management operations management and environmental compliance oversight at Eastman Chemical Company for 18 years. We bought a 15-acre, mostly wooded, private hollow abutting what became Warrior's State Park with walking trails giving us even more privacy, save for the occassional hiker on the back property line. If you come through here, we're the place with the vineyard, growing 4 varieties of grapes sold commercially to various wineries and amatuer wine makers. We make a bit ourselves, but really prefer the hardy reds from Alexander Valley (CA) and Barossa Valley (Austr.); those grapes just won't grown in our moist weather. The recession caus...Expand for more