We’re pleased to announce that our 130th anniversary edition of Purdy native and Confederate Gen. Marcus Joseph Wright’s 1882 book Reminiscences of the Early Settlement and Early Settlers of McNairy County, Tennessee is almost finished.

I grew up in Jackson, Tennessee, and still remember when gold coins were found at a city construction site in 1985. Had they been buried during the Civil War or when it was illegal for people to “hoard” gold coins in the 1930s?

It was a mystery that was never completely solved–until now.