Have you ever noticed how quiet it is around Gay Street and Main Street in the evening? During the day, it’s reasonably lively with lawyers, bankers, government employees milling about. It will be even more so in the coming years […]
Chug Rigsby, crazy drunks, radio pleas, a riverside boulevard, a new football coach, and Knoxville’s Christmas of 1925 A century ago it was snowing over much of the eastern part of the nation. People anticipated a White Christmas, even if […]
Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter John Noble Wilford died on Dec. 8. Raised in western Kentucky, Wilford spent much of his career writing for the New York Times, best known for his science reporting and especially his insights about the space program during […]
Ted Baehr was for many years the de facto grand vizier of the Calvin McClung Historical Collection, the no-nonsense supervisor of that reference library as most of its patrons came to know it. When I first met Ted, maybe 40 […]
The often-forgotten diversity of 1790s Knoxville Ken Burns’ The American Revolution was a powerful prelude to the 250th anniversary of the United States. One point the documentary makes over and over concerns the surprising diversity of America’s original patriots. If […]
“Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right down Santa Claus Lane, Vixen and Blitzen and all his reindeers pulling on the reins, Bells are ringing, children singing, all is merry and bright, So hang your stockings and say […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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