The Tennessee Valley Authority’s headquarters is for sale. For years, the presence of a couple of giant blank buildings that aren’t generally open to the public, and are empty most of the time, was a challenge to Market Square development. […]
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Knoxville in Silent Movies
April 28, 2016
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. Movie-making in Knoxville is now 100 years old. Knoxville got interested in movies early. By one account, movies were being shown outdoors in Turner Park, along Broadway on the edge of […]
Is the Cal Johnson Building Still Safe?
April 20, 2016
Last Thursday afternoon, the Metropolitan Planning Commission unexpectedly rejected its own staff’s recommendations and declined to endorse Mayor Rogero’s much-publicized initiative to give the Cal Johnson Building on State Street H-1 historical protection. It takes some imagination to call it […]
The Architects of Knoxville
April 14, 2016
Knoxville is not famous for its architecture, but maybe it can be. Thomas Hope, who was a furniture maker and planner of homes, is often described as Knoxville’s first architect. Originally from England, Hope (1757-1820) had lived in Charleston before […]
Saturday afternoon I found myself leading a tour of festival music-history pilgrims, and encountered a dilemma. It was 4, and Market Square was packed. I looked down one side and the other, and I didn’t think I could get all […]
It was, more than ever before, a festival of tips on smartphone apps. Attendees got alerts about surprise performances and sold-out shows. The tip I got was strictly analog, a word from a friend in a corner bar. What I […]
Knoxville’s History of Musical Surprises
March 31, 2016
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project The Big Ears Festival is full of surprises. So is Knoxville’s musical history. Here are just a few. In the 1880s, Knoxville held an annual springtime Music Festival, which was devoted […]
Our Man in Havana: James Agee’s One Drink at Sloppy Joe’s
March 30, 2016
Everybody’s going to Havana these days. Obama, the Rolling Stones, half of my chums in Knoxville. I’ve always wanted to see Havana, myself. Cuba doesn’t intersect with Knoxville history very much. The word “Cuba” is on the Spanish-American War statue […]
This column would be more popular if I just gave in and renamed it Concerts We Have Known. After I wrote about the Civic Coliseum dilemma several weeks ago, I heard from a whole lot of people about a whole […]
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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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