Stephen Lyn Bales^{[1, 2]}

• Name	Stephen Lyn Bales
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I62095	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2010

  
  

  Father	Russell Homer Bales,   b. 4 Dec 1928, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 9 Sep 2007  (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Mary Helen Latham,   b. 21 Mar 1929, Tennessee ,   d. 7 Jul 2015, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee  (Age 86 years)
  Married	Abt 1949
  Family ID	F22825	Group Sheet

  
  

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  Derek Hodges/The Mountain Press Keynote speaker Stephen Lyn Bales, author of Natural Histories: Stories From the Tennessee Valley, will be the keynote speaker during next weekend’s Rose Glen Literary Festival at Walters State Community College’s Sevier Campus.

  
  

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  [S23] Atchley Funeral Home, (http://www.atchleyfuneralhome.com/), 9 Sep 2007. Russell Homer Bales obituary [S106] The Mountain Press, 20 Feb 2010. Author! Author! Author! Author! ... WSCC to host literary festival Keynote speaker Stephen Lyn Bales, author of Natural Histories: Stories From the Tennessee Valley, will be the keynote speaker during next weekend’s Rose Glen Literary Festival at Walters State Community College’s Sevier Campus. (Derek Hodges/The Mountain Press) SEVIERVILLE — The Sevierville Chamber of Commerce will present the first Rose Glen Literary Festival from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at Walters State Community College. The day-long event will feature lectures, book signings and a luncheon with local authors and those who have written books about Sevier County. There is an $18 charge for attending the luncheon. Tickets will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis. There is no fee to attend the other workshops during the day. To reserve tickets, call Carroll McMahan, Chamber of Commerce special projects facilitator and event organizer, at 453-6411. The highlighted book topics range from CSI-style murder mysteries to historic texts and cookbooks to children’s books. Confirmed writers for the inaugural event: Bruce Wheeler, a retired UT professor and local history writer; Arthur McDade; Robert Allen, retired FBI agent and author of “Perry Camp Murders”; Steve Watson; Greg Johnson, author of “Sanctuary”; Jack Hodge, a local poet; Lin Stepp, “The Foster Girl”; Beulah Karr, “Civil War History of Sevier County”; Lyn Bales, a naturalist at Ijams Nature Center and author of “The Natural History of the Tennessee Valley”; Eric Ball, “Recipes from Blue Mountain Mist Country Inn”; Laura West; Mary Phillips-Marsang, author of the children’s book “Booger”; Don Williams; Veta King, “History of Pigeon Forge”; John B. Waters Jr., author of “Down Bound” and “The History of Sevier County”; Dwight McCarter, “Mayday, Mayday”; Bonita Hammond; Jarrett Hallcox, a UT professor and author of “Behind the Yellow Lines”; and Ersa Ray Smith, author of “Flying Bullets,” the story of her father, Ray Nolan.