BRISTOL, Tenn. — Beyond the roar of NASCAR’s engines rests an oasis just within the wooded Cherokee National Forest. City lights cast nary a glow upon the site that houses Jacobs Creek Job Corps.
Futures of generations of directionless youth were and are shaped within the bucolic setting.
“When I got here, I was on a seventh-grade level of math,” said current student Zach Patterson, 20, of Cullman, Alabama. “Now eight months later, I’m on a 12th grade level.”
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Author: Tom Netherland
Publication: www.Tricities.com
