Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Travel Nurses Love Working the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol TN , Tri-Cities Area

Johnson City, TN is a popular location for travel nurses to work 13-26 weeks. Over the past 4 years, Dr. G. Dean Wilson (founder of Tri-State Mountain Neurology Associates) and Janine J. Wilson (Founder of A Buyer’s Best Choice Realty® and Ashley Academy) have hosted many travel nurses, in their furnished rental properties.

Some of the traveling nurses have extended their stays; others have returned to the Tri-Cities for a second or third time. And now a travel nurse has decided to move to the Tri-Cities to live and work.

When asked what drew these travel nurses to the Tri Cities, TN area, responses include: (1) the outstanding medical facilities and ease of travel between Johnson City, Kingsport, and Bristol, TN ; (2) hiking, camping, biking, and lakes surrounding the Tri-Cities TN area; (3) the beautiful mountains, with 4 distinct seasons; (4) the high quality of medical care in NE Tennessee with Mountain States Health Alliance and Wellmont Health Systems setting such high standards of care; (5) the nationally ranked Quillen College of Medicine, the new School of Pharmacy at ETSU, the new School of Public Health adding notoriety to an area conscious of it’s contributions nation-wide to training outstanding medical specialists and support personnel.

Dr. and Mrs. Wilson also provide free area tours and information packages to physicians, medical residents, nurses, students, retirees, and other individuals and families contemplating living, working or visiting the Tri-Cities area of TN.

For more information Dr. Dean Wilson and Janine Wilson can be reached at 423-737-4040, e-mailed at abuyerschoice@earthlink.net, or visited on the web at http://TNBuyerBroker.com .


Or a link to the Guest Suites and rentals: http://tnbuyerbroker.com/suites/suites.htm

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Local artist's work on exhibit at Fossil Site-Yet another reason to visit or relocate to Johnson City/Tri-Cities TN area!

Local artist's work on exhibit at Fossil Site

By Allison Alfonso

Press Tempo Writer

What a surprise to discover Suzanne Stryk is exhibiting work at the East Tennessee State University and General Shale Brick Natural History Museum at the Gray Fossil Site. She's exhibited a lot of places, but few where it seems as appropriate.


Stryk has a master of arts degree in painting and bachelor's degree in art history. She's done medical illustration, illustrated her husband Dan's poetry and exhibited her nature and science-inspired paintings while taking occasional teaching jobs and workshops. Her color palette has evolved from muted greens to shining blues and more as she painted dragon flies, beetles, snakes, birds, antelopes, butterflies, nests, monkeys, seashells and ocean life. Her journals of images and fragmentary sentences suggest a scientist at work, and her works portray in format and substance man's need to categorize and make sense of the wild world.


As a child, she'd fill the bathtub with wild animals she'd found. Stryk told me she thanked her mother for never saying "no." She and Dan recently went to the Western coast and studied the shore life there: he wrote poetry and she painted pictures. What a life.


Suzanne's "Keeping An Eye On Things" is on display through April 12 at the fossil site and features paintings, sketches and drawings from 2001-08, journals, animal skulls and insect specimens. Some of the work was inspired by bones and materials found at the fossil site and the Smithsonian Institution and some by the insect collections of others.


Stryk's imagery is increasingly complex and her paintings more physically layered. Trying to understand is increasingly challenging. I can define the imagery, but there's no overall clarity, just mystery. Perhaps that's a point. Time is long and the world too vast to make sense of. Man is small: That's the feeling I left with.


Jessica Evans, fossil site exhibitions and marketing coordinator, walked through Stryk's second floor exhibit with me one recent Monday. We talked about interesting elements of each work while researchers and other site workers worked behind closed doors and open windows on fossils they've unearthed. Those fossils will someday tell us something new and definitive. No such luck with art, but then, we don't expect that. If it opens a small window of knowledge and curiosity for us, we're lucky.


"The artist listens, keeps a close eye, and attempts to translate the voice of nature so that others may hear," Stryk said in Evans' exhibit essay "The Natural Connection." "But the artist, also, sometimes resembles a scientist: collecting evidence, investigating what the subject can tell us, and interpreting this data to the rest of the world. Yet, in turn, the scientist at times resembles the artist: gathering specimens, arranging them in a fitting order, deliberating, then telling the story."


If that's not enough richness for you, visit the Frank H. McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Feb. 7-May 3 to see "River of Gold: PreColumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte." The exhibit of Panamanian gold circa AD 700-1100 by master artisans includes hammered repousse plaques, gold-sheathed ear rods, pendants, bells and precious and semi-precious stone, ivory and bone objects. Animals that reflect the diversity of species and animal-human composites are recurring themes.


The exhibit provides archaeological and cultural context, ethnohistorical information, excavation drawings and videotaped segments from the 1940 film footage of the excavations by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The cemetery and artifacts were overlooked by gold-seeking Spaniards in the 16th century and rediscovered when the Rio Grande de Cocle shifted its bed. The Peabody Museum at Harvard University carried out the first expeditions in the 1930s.





Allison Alfonso is a Tempo writer for the Johnson City Press. Reach her at aalfonso@johnsoncitypress.com.



For more stories, please visit http://www.johnsoncitypress.com. Thank you!

Reposted courtesy of ABuyer's Best Choice Realty: http://www.TNBuyerBroker.com

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol TN New Year News Update

1) Today's the day that Johnson City's Science Hill High School is performing at the Rose Bowl! Only six (6) bands throughout the nation were chosen for this special honor. See previous blog on DEC 28th, 2008, for more in depth information.
And for Real Estate BUYERS and relocation info for Tri-Cities TN, contact Janine or Ashley Wilson, Buyer Brokers: A Buyer's Best Choice Realty: Buyer Representation Exclusively.

2) News From Airfare Watchdog.com, check out the bargain airfare prices for travel from Tri-Cities TN airport to Seattle WA. Reported TODAY, flights are $275.00. Flights are limited, must be bought 7 days ahead, are on United, U.S.Air and last until April 9, 2009.

SUBMITTED BY: Janine Wilson, Buyer Broker/Founder, and Ashley Dean Wilson, Broker/Manager, A Buyer's Best Choice Realty: Buyer Representation Exclusively

http://www.TNBuyerBroker.com

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Johnson City TN's Science Hill High School Band Performing at Rose Bowl

Once again, Johnson City Tennessee's Science Hill High School Band is performing in the Rose Bowl Parade! Thanks to Tom Stites, Science Hill's acclaimed Band Director and Instructor, TN's Science Hill School Band has once again achieved national recognition.

Stites has achieved a record that few high school band leaders attain, graduating almost 100% of his band members over the years. He is known for 'training musicians and performers' rather than merely marching band members. Johnson City, Tennessee, the Tri-Cities Tennessee area, and A Buyer's Best Choice Realty congratulate Tom Stites on his outstanding record and his many years at Science Hill High School!

For more information about Johnson City, TN, schools in the Tri-Cities TN area, relocation to NE Tennessee, travel and vacationing in the first ever "All American City/Region," contact http://www.TNBuyerBroker.com