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About Us

The Signal Mountain Mirror is a monthly newspaper of Fact, Fun and Fancy serving Signal Mountain and Walden areas for over 23 years. The SMM is locally owned and operated within Mountain City Publishing, along with its sister paper, the Lookout Mountain Mirror.
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Publishers and Staff

William Parker
Publisher Posthumous Emeritus
Lucia Hopper
President
Farell McGinness
Advertising Director
Email: [email protected]
Ferris Robinson
Editor
Email: [email protected]
Kendall Jacobs Southerland
Art Director
Email: [email protected]

Contributors

  • Anne Braly
  • ​Melissa Barrett
  • ​Christy Bonner
  • Ann Brown
  • Greyson Brown
  • Kendall Brown
  • Dani Sibold Clark
  • Weesie Cook
  • Rusty Crump
  • George Davenport​
  • Joe Durek​​
  • Tom Eddy
  • Tish Gailmard
  • Ginger Gibson
  • Karin Glendenning
  • Jay Heavilon
  • Taylor Hixon
  • Robin Howe​
  • Carol Lannon​
  • Corina Lopes​
  • Beverly McCormick
  • Michelle Michaud
  • Ann Henley Perry
  • Gail Perry
  • Anne Rittenberry
  • Hilarie Robison
  • John Shearer
  • Karen Paul Stone
  • Tyler Thomas
  • David Wagner​

About the Cover Artwork

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The artwork on our website and featured on the front page of every issue of The Signal Mountain Mirror  and The Lookout Mountain Mirror is created by Publisher Posthumous Emeritus William Parker. To learn more about William Parker, exhibitions or to purchase his art, visit his website.

William Parker was born and raised in the south. Although his immediate family lived in Chattanooga where he was educated, much of his childhood was spent with his grandparents who operated a cotton plantation in South Georgia. He later wrote a book that included much of his memories in the cotton country. He attended public grammar schools and graduated from the McCallie School, a private military institution for young men.

Parker entered the University of Tennessee’s School of Journalism, where he graduated with honors in 1960. During his senior year he wrote promotional columns for Life Magazine.  

Following graduation, he took a job as general assignment reporter for the Chattanooga Times, an important holding of the New York Times. He worked for Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, a granddaughter of the late Adolph Ochs, founder and owner of the New York Times. For a short time he was vice president of an advertising firm and later became director of communications for the Tennessee Valley Public Power Association.

In 1987, Parker founded the Mountain City Publishing Company which today publishes The Signal Mountain Mirror and The Lookout Mountain Mirror. Parker has served on the boards of the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Chattanooga History Center and the Forest Hills Cemetery. In 2010, his first book, “Painting along the Way,” a narrative of life in the South, illustrated by many of his own watercolors. The book is in the process of revision to include current works in process.

Parker recently published his newest book, “An Empire Divided, Atlanta And Chattanooga Family Dynasties From The Early Days Of Coca-Cola.” which encompasses much of the history of Coca-Cola. Research for the book was gathered at the Atlanta History Center and the Woodruff Library at Emory. 

Parker’s family includes his wife, Margaret, his daughter, Lucia and two grandchildren.

Contact US

Mailing address: P.O. Box 99 Lookout Mountain, TN 37350
Physical address: 112 N. Watauga, Lookout Mountain, TN 37350
p. (423) 822-6397
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