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One of you mentioned the golf course you played at turning into something big.... True story: The town of Middlesboro, KY as well as the area of Harrogate, TN were meant to be planned communities. When Middlesboro was being built the developer suffered several setbacks that made the project untenable. (I think it was floods and fires and you know that area flooding is still a problem there). Part of the land attached (the part in Harrogate) was going to be developed into a Four Seasons Hotel and that project did indeed get built. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mark Twain both had stays there -- yep in Harrogate, TN at the Four Seasons Hotel and Sanitarium!** The Middlesboro/Middlesborough project turned into the town of Middlesboro and had a rough history but you can still see the ambition of the project in how the area of downtown looks with broad streets and the design of buildings.

Kinda funny to think but two of the poorest areas near us might've wound up being one of the wealthiest spots in the country had things gone differently. I think the Four Seasons part of the land was eventually sold to LMU and Middlesboro is Middlesborough (depending on your spelling). However, if you've ever set foot in either area you can see why developers chose them. Very beautiful land.

**That would be turned into Grant-Lee Hall. Yep, a dorm.
 
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UTProf said:
One of you mentioned the golf course you played at turning into something big.... True story: The town of Middlesboro, KY as well as the area of Harrogate, TN were meant to be planned communities. When Middlesboro was being built the developer suffered several setbacks that made the project untenable. (I think it was floods and fires and you know that area flooding is still a problem there). Part of the land attached (the part in Harrogate) was going to be developed into a Four Seasons Hotel and that project did indeed get built. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mark Twain both had stays there -- yep in Harrogate, TN at the Four Seasons Hotel and Sanitarium! The Middlesboro/Middlesborough project turned into the town of Middlesboro and had a rough history but you can still see the ambition of the project in how the area of downtown looks with broad streets and the design of buildings.

Kinda funny to think but two of the poorest areas near us might've wound up being one of the wealthiest spots in the country had things gone differently. I think the Four Seasons part of the land was eventually sold to LMU and Middlesboro is Middlesborough (depending on your spelling). However, if you've ever set foot in either area you can see why developers chose them. Very beautiful land.
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Work there every day. Pineville is in a beautiful little spot also.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Work there every day. Pineville is in a beautiful little spot also.
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My father's family is from Middlesboro. I used to spend summers there and in Harrogate but I never knew any of that history back then. I only found it when I was trying to dig up dirt on the story of my great-grandparents who were murdered there in Middlesboro. I still haven't dug anything up on that and at this point doubt I ever will.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
Okay I need some tech help from someone who knows about this stuff.

As I said before, I bought the kids a Nintendo Wii. Hooked it up into the tv yesterday with an HDMI converter from the red, white, and yellow AV cords. They played all day yesterday with no problems. Today we turn the Wii on and the video is fine, but there's no sound. I have a Roku Soundbar plugged into the HDMI 1 port. I switched over to it and watched tv, sound was working fine. I switched the HDMI chords and put the HDMI 1 cable into the Wii, still no sound. I unplugged the Wii and took it to the tv in the bedroom and the sound worked fine. Brought it back out to the living room, no sound. What the heck is going on? Anyone know?
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Return it and get a wii-fund








Stolen from the movie Grownups. Your welcome Bass
 
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UTProf said:
My father's family is from Middlesboro. I used to spend summers there and in Harrogate but I never knew any of that history back then. I only found it when I was trying to dig up dirt on the story of my great-grandparents who were murdered there in Middlesboro. I still haven't dug anything up on that and at this point doubt I ever will.
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If the coal wasn't here and they had therefore never destroyed the environment and brought hundreds of thousands of super poor dirty people and then keft them here...Harlan and Bell counties would be beautiful tourist areas with the Cumberland and it's tributaries.

As it is, they have ruined the mountains and rivers. The people that live like pigs..actually I think a lot of em are worse than pigs with literal mountains of garbage piled around their filthy rotting abodes.


It would be like the Blue Ridge/Smokies area of Western NC and East Tennessee.
 
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UTProf said:
My father's family is from Middlesboro. I used to spend summers there and in Harrogate but I never knew any of that history back then. I only found it when I was trying to dig up dirt on the story of my great-grandparents who were murdered there in Middlesboro. I still haven't dug anything up on that and at this point doubt I ever will.
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The Magic City: Footnotes to the history of Middlesborough, Kentucky, and the Yellow Creek Valley by Ann Dudley Matheny is a very good read about the area.

 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
Okay I need some tech help from someone who knows about this stuff.

As I said before, I bought the kids a Nintendo Wii. Hooked it up into the tv yesterday with an HDMI converter from the red, white, and yellow AV cords. They played all day yesterday with no problems. Today we turn the Wii on and the video is fine, but there's no sound. I have a Roku Soundbar plugged into the HDMI 1 port. I switched over to it and watched tv, sound was working fine. I switched the HDMI chords and put the HDMI 1 cable into the Wii, still no sound. I unplugged the Wii and took it to the tv in the bedroom and the sound worked fine. Brought it back out to the living room, no sound. What the heck is going on? Anyone know?
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Throw the Wii in the trash....and then proceed to buy a Switch.
 
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engineerVOL said:
Thank you, surgery is over now, went smooth, they will know about a month if anything is in the lymph nodes requiring chemo/radiation,
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Welcome brother, this is what kills me with doctoring today. A month is a long time to wait, they don’t get in any hurry. Got a co-worker that has crones and was put in a liquid diet until his next Dr’s appointment. Took them 2-3 weeks to get him in. I told him you’ll starve to death before then.
 
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