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Mark’s CD “Talllman” is now available on CDbaby.com and Apple iTunes for digital download!  
Click here to listen to samples.

Email me here:  tybeetrail@comcast.net

JUNE 2009 FEATURED STORY

HOOPS AND HOOVES

(WINNER of Entertaining Feature category in the 2009 Communications Contest of Cooperative Communicators Association!! Awards were presented 6/14 in Kansas City.)


Published in December 2008, this story chronicles the amazing life of Wanda Shanks, a 75-year-old grandmother who singlehandedly operates a Tennessee beef cattle farm and plays on a senior women’s basketball team.  Her team will soon be competing in the Senior Olympics in San Diego!  Go Wanda! (Opens as .pdf)

Made on a Mac

As a writer, my specialty is non-fiction with a focus on agriculture and rural lifestyle.  I am assistant editor of the Tennessee Cooperator, a statewide agricultural publication.  My work has also been published in Readers Digest’s Career World magazine, several Tennessee periodicals, and will soon appear in Tennessee Farm Bureau’s Home and Farm Magazine and in the Army National Guard’s GX Magazine.

Photography-wise, I do mostly environmental portraits, animal portraits, and “story telling” for feature articles.  But as you will see if you visit my photo page, I cover a little of everything.  As you can see above,


Musically, well ...  You’ll just have to go listen.  If you like Lyle Lovett, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Jack Johnson, and other artists with one-syllable first names, you might find me interesting, too.

Mark Johnson

Writer, photographer, musician