'With Pen in Hand'is entertaining, informative - VIDEO
Mike Petee's play, "With Pen in Hand"takes Dan Emmett where no historian has gone before. Most of us around here know Dan Emmett wrote the song usually known as "Dixie,"and that Mount Vernon holds a festival each year in Emmett's honor. But that's about as far as it goes. More's the pity, because Emmett led a long and interesting life; a life many lads of his day only dreamed about.
Chandler held on $500,000 bond
MOUNT VERNON -- Elmer M. Chandler, who is accused of murdering his wife, Joann, was ordered held on $500,000 bond without the 10 percent provision.
