While he talked you wouldn't trade being a West Tennessee farmer for being anything else in the whole damned world, no matter if it hadn't, in six weeks, rained enough to wet a rat's ass.

While Granny frequently mentioned that she was from Tennessee, the series never specified the state from which the Clampetts moved to California.

While in high school, Rudolph was on the basketball team when she was spotted by Tennessee State track and field coach Ed Temple.

Historian and Forrest biographer Brian Steel Wills writes, “ While there is no doubt that Forrest joined the Klan, there is some question as to whether he actually was the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan .” The KKK ( the Klan ) was formed by veterans of the Confederate Army in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866 and soon expanded throughout the state and beyond.

While two other teams in Tennessee ( Tennessee Titans and Nashville Predators ) in the four major North American sports leagues ( NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL ) play in Nashville, the Grizzlies are the only team currently to play in Memphis.

While Hood traveled through Alabama and into Tennessee, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman began his March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah, which focused Beauregard's attention back to Georgia.

While US 19W heads directly for Interstate 26 at Exits 35 and 36 in Johnson City, Tennessee, US 19E takes a 70-mile ( 113 km ) path through the Great Smoky Mountains.

While slavery was not as common in East Tennessee as in other parts of the Southeastern United States, it did occur.

While Tennessee would later join the Confederacy, most East Tennesseans had Union leanings.

While no college or university houses its main campus within the city, Northeast State Technical Community College, East Tennessee State University, King College, Carson-Newman College, Milligan and the University of Tennessee have branch campuses in Kingsport.

While there he also did a reading of Tennessee Williams ' letters at the New York Public Library, and performed in a reading of Eugene O ' Neill's Days Without End.

While Blount's national reputation was ruined, he remained popular in Tennessee.

While in the penitentiary, Murrell learned the blacksmith's trade, lived in Pikeville, Tennessee, and died there of " pulmonary consumption " ( probably tuberculosis ).

While living in Lafayette County, Arkansas, Conway met Mary Jane Bradley, who had also migrated with her family from Tennessee.

While recruiting Tennessee boys for the Union Army, he became the object of an intense Confederate manhunt.

While delivering a commencement speech during his grandson ’ s graduation at East Tennessee State University ( Johnson City ), Baker was awarded an honorary doctorate degree on May 5, 2007.

While flying over Brentwood, Tennessee, they encountered a violent thunderstorm.

While in the Tennessee General Assembly, Davis supported state employee and teacher pay raises, long-term care for senior citizens, character education in schools and new domestic violence legislation.

While enrolled at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Owens played basketball, football, and ran track.

While her mother was filming The People Vs. Larry Flynt in Memphis, Tennessee, Cobain attended The Maria Montessori School for a short time.

While working in Memphis, Tennessee as a disc jockey, Lawler's artistic ability attracted the attention of local wrestling promoter Aubrey Griffith.

While the region of Tennessee west of the Tennessee River was technically part of Tennessee at its statehood in 1796, it did not come under definitive American control until it was obtained in a series of cessions by the Chickasaw Indians in 1818, an acquisition known as the Jackson Purchase, named for Andrew Jackson, one of the officials involved.

While the exact style of the wine will vary from producer, some of the terroir characteristics associated with California Chardonnay include " flinty " notes with the Russian River Valley and mango & guava from Monterey.

While the Aquia and Potomac Districts ceased to exist by the spring of 1862, the need remained for military organization in the Valley throughout the remainder of the war, and the Valley District remained in place for the duration of the war.

While attending Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, Van Vliet became close friends with fellow teenager Frank Zappa, the pair bonding through their interest in Chicago blues and R & B.

While attending Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, he placed third in the 1977 USA Mathematical Olympiad.

While the largest single city is Lake Havasu City, the area with highest population is the Bullhead City / Fort Mohave / Mohave Valley area.

While significant areas of the county are rural and mountainous, most residents live in the suburbs near Roanoke and Salem in the Roanoke Valley.

While performing in Renfro Valley, Snow worked with a young Hank Williams.

While Mohave Valley and Mohave County use the modern English spelling, the tribe retains the traditional Spanish spelling " Mojave ".

While Casas Adobes ' neighboring municipalities of Oro Valley, Marana and Tucson continue to build new homes and shopping centers, Casas Adobes is mostly built out.

While the accent is not heard as much as it once was, Locust Valley remains a social center for upper-class New Yorkers.

While there are no large towns in the township, its most prominent villages are Old Zionsville, Powder Valley, Shimerville, Vera Cruz, and Zionsville ( also in Lower Milford Township.

While US-11 follows the right ( northwest ) bank of the river, PA-29 comes down from Wyoming County through the gorge of Harveys Creek to West Nanticoke, where it follows US-11 upriver to just before Avondale, where PA-29 splits off for Interstate 81 and becomes the South Cross Valley Expressway.

While millions of tulips are grown in the Skagit Valley, none are shipped to the European Union, which has strict import-export laws that protect its markets.

While early theories placed Huron origin in the St. Lawrence Valley, with some arguing for a presence near Montreal and other St. Lawrence Iroquoian peoples, archeological findings since the 1950s have demonstrated conclusively the Wyandot had no habitation there.

While jobs were scarce during the Great Depression, most people in the Spokane Valley had enough land to grow food for their families.

While George Washington and his troops stayed in Valley Forge, Washington stored his personal effects at the farm of James Burnside in Bethlehem-a historical museum ( Burnside Plantation ).

While on this journey, Kyle learns that seven Dark Jedi are intent on finding the " Valley of the Jedi ", a focal point for Jedi power and a Jedi burial ground.

While the film version of Valley of the Dolls was being made, actress Barbara Parkins suggested that Warwick be considered to sing the film's theme song, written by songwriting team Andre and Dory Previn.

While a young boy, the Miller family moved to Oregon and settled in the Willamette Valley, establishing a farm in what would become Lane County.

While in California, they stayed at a cottage in the Ojai Valley.

While the two-year Banff-Bow Valley Study was underway, development projects were halted, including the expansion of Sunshine Village, and the twinning of the Trans-Canada Highway between Castle Junction and Sunshine.

While he confronted General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the eastern part of the state, Grant ordered Major General Franz Sigel's army of 10, 000 to secure the Valley and threaten Lee's flank, starting the Valley Campaigns of 1864.