Brian Kamer

Christ Above All. @HannyMarieee's husband. Youth Director-FBC-Spring City. History Teacher and Flag Football Coach @ Rockwood High School. VOLS. CFB enthusiast.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

@cbhall1992 Praying for you, brother

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, America wakes 250 years later as a beacon of hope, a republic entrusted to its people, an idea that changed the world.

A nation worth preserving. A dream worth pursuing. A freedom defended by every generation.

Happy 250th, America! 🇺🇸

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

@BoCamaro God wanted humans to eat of the tree of life (they were only banned from eating fruit from the forbidden tree). Once they ate of that tree, God took away access to tree of life for now, not as a punishment, but as a blessing so that mankind didn’t live forever in a sinful state.

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

@BoCamaro Humans were already aware and had the ability to reason as is evidenced by their ability to hear the serpent’s argument and act on it.

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

@CfieldsVFL Exactly a month for me! I am SO READY to be back!

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

@CfieldsVFL Praying for you and your family! We just had a sudden loss in our family yesterday with one of my teenage cousins that lives in Kingston passing away unexpectedly. My heart and my prayers are with you all.

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

@Andy_Savage_999 Rest in peace, man! Losing you is hard, but knowing you are having the chance to bless so many other people takes the sting away just a bit. Enjoy cheering on the Vols from the best seat in the house! Until we meet again 🧡🤍

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

The amount of Vols fans crapping all over women’s sports like it’s a flex is something.

Love Tony V and wish him well, but to use him leaving as a reason to degrade the legacies of Pat Summitt and others is asinine

#Vols🍊

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

@mrandmrstipton Agreed!

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

@CfieldsVFL WRECKED BY THAT RAMBLIN WRECK FROM GEORGIA TECH!!

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

@BoogieBentley They also said Josephs was “a great young lineman” 😂

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

@CfieldsVFL @WDWNT That entry way was always my favorite to go through at night as it really made you feel like you were going on an epic adventure (plus cheeseburger spring rolls)

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

Getting really tired of people smiling to my face and then stabbing me in the back whenever it is convenient for them. #overit

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

@CfieldsVFL

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

13-year-old Camp Mystic, Texas survivor rewrites the lyrics to Hallelujah in the aftermath of the floods

This gave me chills.

Skyler Derrington, who has attended Camp Mystic in Texas since she was young, was among those who escaped the devastating floods while at the camp, which sits on the banks of the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country.

In the aftermath, she rewrote the song “Hallelujah,” turning her experience into a heartfelt tribute to resilience, community, and the place she’s loved since childhood.

[Maxx Crosby @CrosbyMaxx]

Period. 🍿🍿🍿

[Brian Kamer @kamer_brian]

LETS GOOOOO!!!

[Tyler Palmateer @Tpalmateer83]

BREAKING: TSSAA fully sanctions girls flag football for championship status in 2025-26, sets season timeframe.

https://t.co/XySzYfE66u