> I don't have many stories to tell. I just figured it would be wildly irrelevant and totally useless if I posted that I live in Johnson City, TN. Go me! :D
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> P.S., to anyone not from Tennessee: Murfreesboro is rather close to JC. Go figure.

Wow, Moogly, I don't know what you call close! Johnson City is maybe 80 or 100 miles to the east of where I live, and Murfreesboro is 150 miles west. That puts you well over 200 miles for M'boro!
And one point of little interest is that Murfreesboro is at the center point of Tennessee. The actual spot is in a field just outside of town.
Even less interesting is that a century ago, Murfreesboro was the mule capital of the south. M'boro bred mules were taken by train to farms all over the south. Tractors began replacing mules in the 1920's, and by 1960 or so they were a rare sight, even in Murfreesboro.
Other unintresting facts include:
1. Cedar buckets were manufactured in Murfreesboro as far back as the Civil War.
2. The population of Murfreesboro was 12,000 in 1953 (not counting mules). At present it is climbing rapidly past 45,000 and is the growingest city in the state.
3. Middle Tennessee Normal was a college started there in 1911. It later became Middle Tennessee State Teachers College. Then they dropped the word "Teachers" from the name, and still later changed it to Middle Tennessee State University. The enrollment is now more than twice what the population of the whole town was when I went there as a freshman. They call that progress.
4. Murfreesboro is not Murphysboro. If people can see the first and last "r" in the name of the town, why in the heck can't they see the middle one?
I'm beginning to get my rambling a little better organized.
How"class of '58"ard