Speaker Session - Joe Tennis on Ghosts, Ghouls, Haints, and More

Schedule

Tue Oct 14 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States, Virginia 24201 | Bristol, VA

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Join us on Tuesday, October 14 for a Speaker Session with Joe Tennis. In this Speaker Session – and in honor of Halloween season! – local author Joe Tennis will take us into the deserted houses and down the spooky paths of ghosts, ghouls, haints, and more in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Location: In-person at the Birthplace of Country Music, Performance Theatre and streamed on Radio Bristol’s YouTube Channel
Cost: Free and open to the public
REGISTER TO ATTEND IN PERSON: https://www.tixr.com/groups/bcm/events/speaker-session-joe-tennis-138041?_gl=1*pubpb5*_gcl_au*MjA3MDI5MDQwMy4xNzQ1MjQyMTcy
Local author Joe Tennis is an award-winning journalist who has authored several local history books, including Beach to Bluegrass, Southwest Virginia Crossroads, and Images of America: Sullivan County. His ghost-focused books include The Marble and Other Ghost Tales of Tennessee and Virginia, Haunted Highlands, and The Ghostly Tales of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Highlands. His articles and photographs have also appeared in Blue Ridge Country, Bristol Herald Courier, Kingsport Times-News, Appalachian Voice, the Virginian-Pilot, and the Roanoke Times.
About Joe Tennis
Joe Tennis is the author of 11 books on history and ghosts across Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. As a storyteller, he has appeared on stages from Kentucky to Virginia Beach.
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