Actor Phil McPeak
The stories in the play I Am Home, opening in Jonesborough’s McKinney Center on February 23, tells the stories of the people who helped shape the Jonesborough of today. These stories revolve around everyday folks, ordinary people who did extraordinary things. However, one phenomenon keeps occurring during the rehearsal process—actors or community members who happen to be at a rehearsal, recognize something of their own story in the scenes presented on stage. 
Marcy Hawley laughed out loud during a musical number, about a house renovation that yielded hidden treasures throughout the home. Hawley, was not born in Jonesborough, but made it her home more than twenty years ago, lives in the oldest residential building in Tennessee. Also an actor in the production, she related a time when she had hidden a family heirloom in the kitchen pantry, only to have it go missing. “One day, years from now, someone is going to find a $3,000 rock somewhere! Just like in the play, we are telling about finding hidden treasures found in the walls and floorboards of our old homes. There is a lot of hidden history here- in our houses, and in our stories we haven’t told yet.”“I Am Home is a play that captures the human spirit. It looks at the times when we are at our darkest moment, and when we rise to our finest hour. Those aren’t just Jonesborough stories. They’re universal stories. We can all connect with them at a human level.”
Playwright, Jules Corriere