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David R. Duggan is a Tennessee circuit court judge and presiding judge of the fifth judicial district. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Tennessee, he earned B. A., M.A., and J.D. degrees. He wrote his masters thesis on the Southern Agrarians. He is former president and a steering committee member of the Knoxville Federalist Society. He and his wife, Kari, have four children and six grandchildren.

Decoration Day

Mockingbirds sing in this rural Southern graveyard where you now lie amidst engraved stones, some broken, some legible though weathered cryptic by rain, drought, cold, spring and…

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Memory

In the morning, I looked through a window and saw my face pressed against a cool pane that was damp on a humid summer day. “Come away…

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Appalachian Morning

In Memory of Willmoore Kendall   They live here, these forlorn people—no riches to relinquish; their dawn no different than any other’s on this morning. But what…

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