Keith Sharon

5 days ago | app.com | Keith Sharon |Paul Skrbina

NASCAR con man L.W. Wright's fast-talking ways were bound to catch up with him. And it finally did. L.W. Wright was a con man who talked his way into a car and onto one of the fastest tracks in all of NASCAR at Talladega. The man qualified for the race but he vanished after receiving a black flag for driving too slow. But decades later, L.W. Wright resurfaced. Could he now outrun the law? This is the final part in a three-part series from The Tennessean chronicling the story of L.W. Wright.

1 week ago | tennessean.com | Paul Skrbina |Keith Sharon

L.W. Wright got himself a car and a crew and found his way to Talladega. But a day of reckoning was upon him. Could he qualify? The superspeedway at Talladega is massive and has a capacity for 175,000 people in its stands. The track is 2.66 miles long and its curves are a steep 33-degrees. So could L.W. Wright race around the tri-oval at speeds well over 100 mph and qualify? Could he do it without crashing?

2 weeks ago | tennessean.com | Keith Sharon

The event was sponsored by the Mayor's office, AkzoNobel and Creative Girls Rock. Volunteers used 70 gallons of paint and eight colors. The art was designed by Elisheba Mrozik, who also painted murals honoring Elizabeth Duff and Z. Alexander LoobyJefferson Street got a volunteer paint job on April 26 as the sidewalks at the corner of Rosa L. Parks Boulevard went from gray to teal, yellow, orange and an array of colors with about 50 people on their hands and knees helping out.

2 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Keith Sharon |Paul Skrbina

• L.W. Wright, a con man, convinced Coo Coo Marlin and his son Sterling to sell him a race car and act as his pit crew chief for the 1982 Winston 500 at Talladega. • Wright falsely claimed to have a successful racing background and fabricated connections to country music stars to secure funding and a NASCAR license. • A Tennessean columnist's investigation revealed Wright's lies about his racing credentials and sponsorships.

4 weeks ago | tennessean.com | Keith Sharon

The colors come in waves. Bright yellow butterweed, purple phacelia and the baby blue bluebells — wildflowers which have found a place to crash for the spring. The park didn't always look like this. Friends of Warner Parks spent $1.5 million on clean-up. Still $1.5 million is needed. Bluebells, Bloodroots and trillium, among other native flowers, have returned. Gray dies quickly in the springtime at the Percy Warner Park.