Another Cookeville Product (sort-of)

Until this morning, I did not realize that Duke basketball star (and sworn enemy of my in-laws) J.J. Reddick was born in Cookeville.  An article on his family background describes them pretty much as, well, perhaps more intelligent hippies.  They mention his parents throwing pots on a "farm" near Cookeville when J.J. was born.  Growing up there at the time, I did not know of any such place except the Appalachian Center for Craft, which is an arts institute run by Tennessee Tech.  Some liberties must have been taken by the writer, for I've been to the Center several times and don't think of it as a farm.  Reddick was born about 6 months after my youngest sister.  So far, I have not seen any mention of Reddick's roots in the Herald-Citizen.

 

This marks the second major sports celebrity to come from Cookeville this year, the first being Texas Head Football Coach Mack Brown, who is actually a Cookeville native.