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Lee L. Powers
A regional historian and travel writer with a strong interest in place, memory, and family history, he is known for books that linger on landscapes, old towns, and early Tennessee lives.
1 Audiobook
The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland: A Description of Cities, Cathedrals, Lakes, Mountains, Ruins, and Watering-places.
by Thomas W. (Thomas William) Silloway, Lee L. Powers
About the author
Lee L. Powers, also published as Lee Leeper Powers, was an American writer remembered for a small but distinctive body of historical and travel writing. Public catalog and archive records connect him with The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland and with Captain Thomas Jarnagin, 1746–1802, a family and local-history work centered on one of Tennessee's early pioneers.
Available records identify him as Lee Leeper Powers (1899–1993). A local resolution from Lake Lure, North Carolina, describes him as a native of East Tennessee and a direct descendant of Captain Jarnagin, which helps explain the personal connection behind his later historical writing.
His work suggests a writer drawn to heritage, travel, and the stories attached to particular places. Even from the limited surviving sources, he comes across as someone who wanted to preserve the feel of cathedral towns abroad and family history at home.