Stories

Researched narratives from Knoxville’s past
The Legend of Marshal Carlos
June 20, 2023
ANCIENT TALES OF OUR SPANISH-SPEAKING POLICE CHIEF ARE AT LEAST PARTLY TRUE Knoxville has traditionally emphasized its Scots-Irish origins, but when we think of Knoxville’s...
Bottom of the Ninth
May 4, 2023
SOME AWKWARD LATE-CAREER DRAMA FOR TWO OLD PROS It’s baseball season, and one of those national movie channels has been showing an old baseball movie that raises an interesting...
The Ever-Evolving Legend of Claude Jeter and Swan Silvertones
February 24, 2023
The former Knoxville Singing Group whose influence crossed genres in unexpected ways. One Black musical group has been cited by multiple well-known songwriters as an important...
The House of Brown
January 25, 2023
The Remarkable Story of a Diversified Horseman To us, Pryor Brown is the name of a parking garage, and of a longstanding dilemma of a large, unusual building that seems to have...
Of Christmases Long, Long Ago: PArt XXX
December 12, 2022
Wonderful Flowers, Phantom Princesses, Painted Legs, Ghostly Hands, and the Ku Klux Klan This has become a tradition, or a habit, which may be the same thing. Since the early...
The October Carnival
October 21, 2022
Our first big street fairs set a high bar for Fun, but also presented an early flowering of African American culture Imagine October in Knoxville, and subtract Volmania, drives...
A History Hootenanny
August 15, 2022
And the story of another Knoxville Hootenanny, the strangest concert of 1964 This month, our friends at the East Tennessee Historical Society are hosting a first-ever History...
Before Selfies
July 14, 2022
The Scourge of the Snap-Shot People You may know that we have an ongoing project called “Knoxville Shoebox,” which is a slowly growing collection of personal photographs...
A Strange, Still Joy
May 27, 2022
Some thoughts about the new book about Frances Hodgson Burnett: Are we keeping our garden too secret? It’s gardening season, of course, and in local libraries and bookstores...


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