Last week I wrote about the new Suttree Landing Park, and its surprising nod to a novel by Cormac McCarthy whose primary setting is a Knoxville underworld of riverside shantytowns and tavernboats. The south bank was the setting for some […]
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June 5 is the 150th birthday of Pattie Boyd (1867-1947). Although a woman named Elizabeth Roulsone became publisher of the Knoxville Gazette after her husband’s death in 1804, and ran Tennessee’s first newspaper for four years, Boyd is remembered as […]
Cal Johnson’s First Speedway
May 25, 2017
Suttree Landing Park looks nautical, with little pocket lookouts for picnics or contemplation almost like jetties. Stand at one of these promontories on a Saturday afternoon and you can hear beery-sounding laughter from half a mile away, across the river, […]
A Mile of Magnolia: This Weekend’s Open Streets Showcases an Interesting Part of Town Some Avoid
May 18, 2017
Some suburbanites who know Magnolia Avenue only from vice reports in the news pronounce it with a shiver. It’s a butt of complacent cocktail-party jokes. Newcomers to town, free of preconceptions, see Magnolia Avenue for the first time and say, […]
After years of confirmed rumors, Knox County is indeed trying to sell the 17-story Andrew Johnson Building. It’s open to proposals until July 13. It’s been an office building for 30 years. For half a century before that, it was […]
Just a Few of Knoxville’s Memorable Moms
May 11, 2017
All mothers are historic, but here are a few memorable Moms. Mother’s Day started around 1908, when Anna Jarvis, of Grafton, W.V., proposed the holiday just after her own mother’s death. She intended it as a way to remember to […]
Digby Seymour, 1923-2017
April 29, 2017
The author of one of the best and most enduringly beloved books about Knoxville history died on Thursday at age 93. His masterpiece, Divided Loyalties: Fort Sanders and the Civil War in East Tennessee has been a standard text since […]
The Thing Near Second Creek
April 27, 2017
The World’s Fair started 35 years ago this Monday. Today, the pundits who declare media as we know it is coming to an end, observe, as their most damning evidence, that “Kids today just don’t read the papers anymore.” Of […]
Reveries on a Couple of Country-Music Fantasies
April 20, 2017
I’m obliged to submit a melancholy update. I’ve written a couple of articles about a rare and fascinating old building that nobody could figure out what to do with. The big WNOX auditorium, in the Whittle Springs area on the […]
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