Longtime colleagues remember the host of Tennessee Crossroads, Joe Elmore

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Longtime host of Tennessee Crossroads, Joe Elmore, handed away on the age of 80. The Nashville Public Tv present highlights little-known Tennessee treasures, unsung heroes, and must-see locations all throughout the Volunteer State.

Elmore allowed Tennesseans to journey from Memphis to Mountain Metropolis, simply by watching the weekly program. “It was such as you had been watching Uncle Joe as an alternative of some TV star,” stated Ed Jones, Government Producer of Tennessee Crossroads and a member of the workforce since 1993. “He was tremendous inventive and he had probably the most great humorousness of anybody I’ve recognized.”

To that finish, Jones nonetheless cracks up eager about the time Joe could not crank begin an vintage Case tractor on the request of a farmer he was profiling. “I’m drained,” stated Elmore. “I reckon you’re,” stated the farmer. “C’mon let’s go begin a neater one.”

“However he couldn’t get it began. And the longer the video goes on, the sweatier Joe will get,” defined Jones. “Apparently I believe Joe needed to go dwelling and sleep a few days after that — he was so exhausted.”

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Jones additionally remembers the time a unusual artist in Espresso County pulled the final word prank on Elmore. “He takes Joe into the barn and was going to point out him one thing on this field,” stated Jones.

When Elmore pulled again the field, a grotesque model popped out at him. “Gave Joe an excellent scare,” Jones stated with amusing.

Nashville Public Tv’s President, Becky Magura, struggles to consider Joe’s chair on the Tennessee Crossroads set being empty. “You may’t fill that chair. It’s Joe’s chair,” she stated, combating again tears. “We misplaced a good friend. We misplaced a colleague and our state misplaced its most shining ambassador.”

Magura says; that to honor Joe’s needs, Tennessee Crossroads will proceed crisscrossing the state with their different contributors taking turns as hosts. That rotation consists of former NewsChannel 5 anchor Vicki Yates, who joined this system this yr.

Solely, after they host, they will not sit in Joe’s chair. “We are going to honor it, and we’ll shield it, however we’re in all probability not going to let anybody sit in it. It’s Joe’s chair,” stated Magura.

“I simply need the viewers to know, Joe is with us. Joe will likely be with us in spirit by means of the years,” stated Jones. “He’s by no means going away, each time you activate Tennessee Crossroads, he’ll be there in spirit.”

Joe’s colleagues at NPT are within the course of of manufacturing a 30-minute particular that can honor Joe’s life and legacy. They’re planning for it to air in July.