Robert Sorrell (right) shows off his latest book: Secret Appalachian Highlands A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure; along with Joe Penza, archivist for the City of Elizabethton. The men are at one of the locations Sorrell wrote about in the book, the basement of the Elizabethton Public Library, which had once been a Civil Defense fallout shelter during the Cold War.
Robert Sorrell (right) shows off his latest book: Secret Appalachian Highlands A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure; along with Joe Penza, archivist for the City of Elizabethton. The men are at one of the locations Sorrell wrote about in the book, the basement of the Elizabethton Public Library, which had once been a Civil Defense fallout shelter during the Cold War.
Robert SorrellοƵ latest book on the Tri-Cities and the surrounding mountainous region is now out in area bookstores. The book is entitled Secret Appalachian Highlands: A guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure.
Sorrell knows the region very well and the seven books he has written are all about the region and its people. He is a 2007 graduate of East Tennessee State University and has worked as a journalist at the Erwin Record, the Elizabethton Star and the Bristol Herald-Courier. His books include Images of America: Roan Mountain; Blue Ridge Firetowers; Historic Homes of Northeast Tennessee; Kenneth Potter: True Stores of a Criminal Investigator; The Story of Becoming Piney Flats; and Roan Mountain Scrapbook.
