#Tim henson smiling free

Henson refers to his monthly six pages as a newspaper, though it's not that big. I haven't had any money since I quit raising it, but I've got lots of memories.”

“I've still got back pain today, and I haven't raised tobacco in 40 years. I ended up right back on the farm, raising tobacco. I said, 'if this is Robertson County, I don't want any part of it.' When I went off to college, I said, 'I ain't never coming back.' But I ended up having to eat my words.

“When I first came to the area, I ended up working in the tobacco fields. “I've been addicted to history since I was four years old,” Henson said. Henson has degrees in history from David Lipscomb and Freed-Hardeman Universities.

“The reason it's called the Adams Enterprise is that 100+ years ago we had an Adams Enterprise here, a large newspaper,” Henson said. The rest are placed around town and picked up by readers at the local store or post office. Henson says he mails 50 or 60 copies each month, to places like California, North Carolina, and Florida. I guess everybody just thought it would close down, but I just kept going. One of the guys died in 2008, the other left me in 2012. This is my 25th year with the Adams Enterprise. It's from the Historical Commission, and I guess it's quite an honor. “I got all the information from the museum in Springfield. “I was really shocked when I found out about this award,” Henson said. It's facts like these that helped him win the Merit Award. “Back in about 1969, we had three beauticians, and a barber shop up on Main Street,” he said. He noted that his town is lucky to still have a barber shop. In looking around Adams, Henson sees a changing landscape with businesses moving in and out over the years. They want to tie the Bell Witch history and legend to Nashville, but this isn't Nashville's legend, it's Adams' legend.” A changing landscape He turned down a recent interview request associated with a movie, saying, “I'm tired of it. Over the years, Henson has been interviewed for dozens of television shows and a few movies about the Bell Witch. There is a donation box, but the museum makes most of its money from the sale of the Bell Witch books.

#Tim henson smiling free

He refers to the museum as 'his baby', and explains that it's free to tour. Henson is a storyteller and life-long historian. “They were covered in comic books back in the day.” “This is one of the actual tables from Sory's,” Henson said. Sitting inside a replica of Sory Drug Store and Soda Fountain, one of the exhibits at the Adams Museum, Henson recently sat down with the USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee to talk about his town, the award and what it all means to him.