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        Bullseye! A 1975 Triumph Spitfire was  presented        Lee and Laurie  Kerr's sporty MGB , seen here,  is a
        by  Bill and Linda Hambley.                             familiar  sight   on  club  drives  and  at  Cars  and
                                                                Coffee.
                                                                                               About  t he TN Bapt ist
                                                                                                 Children's Home

                                                                                                 Tennessee       Baptist
                                                                                            Children's    Home       has
                                                                                            provided  nurturing  homes
                                                                                            for  children  since  1891.
                                                                                            Mrs.  Georgia  Eastman   felt
   Above:  It's  easy  to  be  bug-eyed                                                     led  to  provide  a  Christian
   over  the  Bug-Eye  when  you
                                                                                            home       for     orphaned
   discover that Charlie Crumpton is
                                                                                            children   and  lodged  them
   the  Sprite's  original  owner.  He
                                                                                            in    the   former     Hotel
   bought  it  in  Gibraltar  when  he
                                                                                            Delaware in W. Nashville.
   was in the service there.           Above:  Al  Wood  (at  the  back)  proudly  displayed
   Gibraltar   is  a  British  Overseas   his  Morgan  that  looks  grand  from  every  angle.   In   1911,   the   board
   Territory,  once  a  Crown  Colony,   He's owned the car for 51 years.                   purchased  its  new  site  on
   located at the southern  tip of the                                                      Franklin  Road  in  what  was
   Iberian Peninsula. It was ceded to                                                       to  become   Brentwood.
   Great  Britain   in  perpetuity  in                                                      Today  there  are  three
   1713    under   the   Treaty   of                                                        residential  campuses   in
   Ultrecht.
                                                                                            Brentwood,  Millington  and
   The Strait of Gibraltar remains   a                                                      Chattanooga  providing  on
   strategic  choke  point   controlling                                                    campus homes for children
   the  entrance  and  the  exit  to  the                                                   not in state custody.
   Mediterranean Sea.
                                                                                            Donations,     grants,   and
   There's  no   doubt  this  Sprite   Showing  the  variety  to  be  had  in  the  MG  line,  fund  raising  support  the
   must     have   loved    zipping    Stuart  Naylor's  racing  green   MGC  and  John  homes.               Significant
   around     Gibraltar    in   the    McLean's   creme   GT  brought  spit  and  polish  to  renovations to the campus
   beautiful        Mediterranean      the car show.                                        are   now     underway     in
   climate.   The  stories  it  could                                                       Brentwood.
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