Stories

Researched narratives from Knoxville’s past
The Etymology of Pavement: Knoxville’s Streets, Avenues, Pikes, and Drives
November 11, 2015
People who grew up knowing Central Avenue are just now getting used to calling it Central Street, as their great-grandparents did. It makes sense, by the pattern we’ve set up. But we’ve...
Veterans Day in Knoxville
November 9, 2015
When Knoxville first celebrated Veterans Day, it was headline news. At 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918, Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, and the news was cabled...
A Portrait of the Artist: Lloyd Branson
November 4, 2015
Lloyd Branson was the first Knoxvillian who made an entire career of art. Though he lived in a practical, industrial city and had no ongoing affiliation with a university...
Nina Simone’s Elusive Game Day Show
November 4, 2015
A couple of months ago I asked to hear from readers who might have witnessed Nina Simone’s rare, perhaps only, Knoxville appearance. Until seeing a new movie this past...
Knoxville’s Halloween History
October 29, 2015
Like most holidays, Halloween changes with each new generation. Before about 1945, the holiday was usually spelled with an apostrophe, as “Hallow E’en” or “Hallowe’en,”...
Why Cinema Giant Regal Entertainment Belongs Downtown
October 28, 2015
The commitment of Regal Entertainment Group to a headquarters on the south bank is about as good news as we ever deserve. It is, to begin with, the elusive “corporate headquarters”...
General Pickle’s “Fort Sanders Hall” Is Apparently Doomed
October 21, 2015
The Pickle Mansion is dying hard. Since it was gutted by a fire in the summer of 2003, when we were all a dozen years younger, the big house at 1633 Clinch Ave. has existed...
A Short History of Knoxville’s Parkridge Neighborhood and its George Barber Houses
October 21, 2015
This Sunday, the 25th, is the annual Parkridge Home Tour. Parkridge is a long neighborhood of almost 3,000 residents between Magnolia Avenue and what’s now Interstate 40, from...
Joe Mabry’s Legacy
October 14, 2015
The Mabry-Hazen House offers a rare glimpse into another time, and the stories of a particularly passionate family. Although the house and tree-shaded grounds makes it seem...


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