Man designs logo for East TN, showing his love for the region [Video]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Bick Marshall said it was “the Good Book” worn, threaded together and passed down through the decades that led to a revelation.

“My father gave me my grandfather’s Bible in 1975,” Marshall said. “It was at that point that I realized I didn’t know anything about my family.”

The retired businessman who lives on a mountain in Blount County yearned to learn more about his family’s East Tennessee roots. It was his love of this region that drew him back.

“I’ve lived in Seattle. I’ve worked in El Paso. I’ve worked in Cincinnati and Nashville and lived in Kentucky a while, but there was never any doubt about where I was going to end up living… East Tennessee,” he said.

Marshall …