Meagan Day

Meagan Day
Born in: Salem, OR
Lived here: 34 years
Interview location: Depot Street Brewing, Depot Street
Meagan’s family is from Louisiana, where her grandparents worked at a paintbrush factory. They then visited the Great Smoky Mountains, fell in love with the area, and found out a factory was opening in Boones Creek, TN. Meagan has lived in Washington County since 1992 and Jonesborough since 2004. She thinks of Depot Street Brewing as “the back porch of Jonesborough.”
“I had a little bit of a health scare last year. They found this place on my lungs, and I got really nervous that it was cancer. And so, you know, I didn’t tell a lot of people. But, word gets around in Jonesborough. And so I had, everybody would stop by at the coffee shop and they’re like, ‘Hey, I heard what’s going on, you know. How are you doing with it.’ I’m like, ‘I’m fine. I don’t know anything yet.’ But I just felt really supported by those people. And actually when I got my results back, it turned out it was just some weird malformation on my lungs. They threw me a you-don’t-have-cancer party here at the brewery. And it just, I don’t know, knowing that that many people care about you. And you’re not blood related. But, they’re family.”