It's just a small-town, down-home parade that we really encourage all the entries to just have fun with it.

There are so many stories and so many important people buried here. Our hope is that we can do this every year and learn more about the people.

To tear down any (historical) house for a parking lot is not good. The whole point of a local register is to preserve our heritage.

I wasn't getting anything back, ... While I was making a lot of money, I wasn't having any fun.

That seems to be the Kingsport way anymore. We stay at home and make our own fun –– Kingsport's good for that.

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.