Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. The Tennessee Theatre’s tall sign, removed this week, is only about 12 years old. A vertical sign was there during the theater’s early years, but it was removed in 1956. When […]
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At its messy, railroad-track-strewn intersection with Western, Keith Avenue offers the promise of a clever shortcut west. But follow it into West View, and it starts to look like a sleepy country road. If you can remember where it is, […]
Memorial Day in Knoxville
May 27, 2016
Memorial Day has been celebrated in Knoxville for about as long as the holiday has existed. Originally known as Decoration Day, it was a day for decorating the graves of war dead with flowers. A day to remember Union soldiers […]
For the last few weeks, the Knox County Public Library’s “Paper to Pixels” project has made a couple of decades of News Sentinel articles and ads available to us via the library’s website. Lots of interesting details of Knoxville’s cultural […]
Knox Heritage’s 2016 ‘Fragile Fifteen’ List of Endangered Historic Buildings and Places
May 19, 2016
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. Knox Heritage announces its short list of historical resources that are threatened, but show promise for new life in the future. As always, this year’s announcement of the Fragile Fifteen includes a […]
A Saturday Afternoon in Downtown Burlington
May 18, 2016
Maybe you haven’t spent much time in Burlington since Ruby’s Coffee Shop closed, 16 years ago. But when you get to the eastern end of MLK, it’s still tempting to pull over and get out of the car. A cluster […]
A Salute to Knoxville’s Central Street
May 13, 2016
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. Central Street is the focus of this Sunday’s “Open Streets” festival, when the street turns pedestrians-only for a few hours. One of Knoxville’s oldest streets, it hasn’t always been called Central. South […]
The Knoxville Sessions box-set release of 1929 and 1930 recordings—celebrated with a frequently surprising festival this past weekend—is remarkable for several reasons, nationally or even internationally. It’s a pretty fascinating echo of an underdocumented era from the beginnings of popular […]
When Dick Voynow, who’d once been the piano player for one of the most popular jazz bands in the world, arrived in Knoxville in the fall of 1929 to make some recordings, the sooty, crowded town noisy with streetcars and […]
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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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