Two dates that have become important to the residents of Kingsport are Oct. 4, 1960, and Oct. 4, 2017. These are the dates of the explosions at Eastman Chemical Company. The explosion in 1960 took a high toll on the community. Sixteen people died and over 400 were injured. The recent explosion was on a […]
This past Thursday, students piled into the Steve Lacy Fieldhouse for Moonlight Madness. Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams played a scrimmage, and the cheer and dance team previewed some of their numbers for the year. The highlight of the basketball games was when junior soccer player Amy Long joined the women’s team and […]
Last Friday, Milligan’s honors program hosted a professor from Appalachian State University who spoke on how literature and science, specifically sciences like biology and ecology, could benefit from each other. Dr. Kathryn Kirkpatrick is an English professor of feminist, cultural and ecocritical theory; Irish literature and culture; and poetry and poetics. In her lecture titled […]
Ever wonder what worm racing is? Just ask a Buffalo Rambler. On Oct. 21, the Buffalo Ramblers will drive to Banner Elk, NC, to experience the 40th Annual Woolly Worm Festival; after the race, the Ramblers will hike up the Blue Ridge Parkway to Rough Ridge — a two mile round-trip. The plan is to […]
On Thursday night, Emmanuel Seminary hosted Dr. Craig Detweiler, professor of communication at Pepperdine University. He led the event titled Into the Dark: Finding God in Contemporary Film. The event was named after Detweiler’s book, “Into the dark: seeing the sacred in the top films of the 21st century,” in which he explored the link […]