Photo by John Russell
On the banks of the Cumberland River, overlooking the practice facility of the Tennessee Titans, sits Chip’s Place. And at Chip’s Place you’ll find Chip Healy, ’68, former All-American linebacker for the Commodores and a two-year veteran of the old St. Louis Cardinals professional football team. Chip’s Place is the user-friendly nickname for Transitional Living Inc., a sober-living community he founded in 2000 to provide a drug- and alcohol-free place for men to live and grow while recovering from their addictions. “This was an old fish camp,” Healy says of the seven-building campus. “They were a bunch of places people built after the war … little cabins that were a nice place to get away from the city.” Healy himself benefited from a recovery program 11 years ago and believes he was led to find the property for a purpose. A father of two and grandfather of four, he says a typical successful stay at Chip’s Place lasts eight months. The men pay rent and are required to work and attend 12-step meetings.
Find out more: www.chips-place.org