November 2025

Ghost Walking the Streets of Knoxville: Prize Steers, Peddlers & Pool Halls
November 18, 2025

Just beyond the edge of the town’s original 64 lots laid out in 1791, the intersection of Gay Street and Clinch Avenue has long been a bustling place in downtown Knoxville. Today, thousands of people walk or drive through here […]

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Jane Albright (1926-2025)
November 5, 2025

We’re grieving the recent loss of one of our best friends and most generous early supporters, Jane Albright. A career educator, she worked for Carson Newman University, where she was a librarian and taught information science for many years in […]

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The Knoxville Paper Box Co. Building
November 4, 2025

Another historic downtown building whose future is in question We recently ran a piece about the 1875 Peabody School / Labor Temple building, threatened by the fact that it appears to be erased in a landowner’s proposal for the property, […]

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