Sam Venable

Sam Venable has been on staff at the Knoxville News-Sentinel since 1970, as outdoors editor until 1985 and as a humor columnist since then. He is the author of 10 books, including “Mountain Hands: A Portrait of Southern Appalachia” and “Someday I May Find Honest Work.”

Sam Venable

Sam Venable has been on staff at the Knoxville News-Sentinel since 1970, as outdoors editor until 1985 and as a humor columnist since then. He is the author of 10 books...

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Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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