January 2025

The Mysteries of Signor Grimaldi

January 18, 2025

The elderly British sailor with an Italian name who became suddenly famous after his death Thomas F. Grimaldi was fairly new to town, a cobbler arriving in the very early 1870s, but in the rapidly growing railroad town he rose […]

From Printer’s Devil to Ball Drop

January 5, 2025

The Knoxvillian Who Invented the Famous New Year’s Eve Celebration in Times Square For many, the last few seconds of a year are marked by watching the “Ball Drop” in Manhattan’s world-famous Times Square. It may be hard to […]

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Jack Neely is executive director of the Knoxville History Project. He has become one of Knoxville’s most popular writers and its unofficial historian. Jack is well known for his thoughtful, well-researched, and provocative pieces of long-form journalism, not to mention his books, speeches, and other public appearances...

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January 2025

The Mysteries of Signor Grimaldi

From Printer’s Devil to Ball Drop

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