Larry E. Matthews was born in LaFollette, Tennessee, located approximately thirty miles north of Knoxville. He was raised in Nashville, Tennessee, where he attended Hillsboro High School (graduated 1964) and Vanderbilt University (BA 68, MS 71).
Larry currently lives in Nashville, where he now works full-time writing books on Tennessee caves after retiring from the State of Tennessee on May 28, 2010. He is currently revising his 2005 book "Dunbar Cave: The Showplace of the South" to include important new archaeological discoveries and to significantly expand the information on the social uses of the cave.
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caves, Caves, History, geology, springs, Tennessee caves, saltpeter mining, speleology, spring, Big Bone Cave (Tenn.), Blue Spring Cave, Civil War, Daniel Boone, Speleology, Thomas Jefferson, War of 1812, bibliography, cave, caves of tennessee, jaguars, saltpeter, saltpeter mining. vertebrate fossils, tennesseePlaces
Tennessee, Calfkiller River, Chattanooga, Cumberland Caverns, Cumberland Caverns (Tenn.), Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Plateau, East Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains, Henshaw Cave, Higgenbotham Cave, Knoxville, Lookout Mountain, Middle Tennessee, Nickajack, Ruby Falls, Sparta (Tennessee), The Lost SeaPeople
Larry E. Matthews, Aaron Higgenbotham, Andrew Jackson, Bill Walter, Bob Biddix, Daniel Boone, Erica Sughrue, Johnny Cash, Leo Lambert, Roy Davis, Standiford (Tank) Gorin, Thomas JeffersonID Numbers
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