The Knoxville History Project is nearing completion on Historic South Knoxville, a new community history book to be published late this year. The book will broadly cover all of South Knoxville, but here is a brief look at a few of […]
Knoxville City Lifestyle Articles
The Lawson McGhee Library, on the corner of W. Church Avenue and Walnut Street, has stood there for more than 50 years. Crammed full of books, DVDs, vinyl records and other media, serves the community, just like its numerous branches, […]
The Bijou’s Second Balcony: A New Book Highlights the African American Experience at Knoxville’s Historic Theater
April 15, 2026
Late last year, the nonprofit Knoxville History Project published a new book for the Bijou Theatre, The Second Balcony: The African American Experience at the Bijou Theatre. Researched and written by Jack Neely with the assistance of the Beck Cultural Exchange […]
KNOXVILLE SHOEBOX: New Vintage Photographs and Postcards Highlight the History of Knoxville Places and Events
March 2, 2026
At the nonprofit Knoxville History Project, we are always on the lookout for old images to expand our Knoxville Shoebox digital collection. If you have interesting photographs, postcards, brochures or ephemera from any era, we’d love to hear from you […]
Paul Adams and Smoky Jack: The Adventures of a remarkable duo on Mount Le Conte in 1925 – 1926 (Part 2)
February 2, 2026
Continuing the story from last month, the Knoxville-based Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association hired Paul Adams to build a proper campsite on Mount Le Conte, just over 100 years ago, in the summer of 1925. As a young, experienced […]
Paul Adams and Smoky Jack: The Adventures of a remarkable duo on Mount Le Conte in 1925 – 1926 (Part 1)
January 2, 2026
100 years ago this winter, Paul Adams built the first structured camp on Mount Le Conte, the precursor to the famous Le Conte Lodge in the Great Smoky Mountains. For company, he brought along an extraordinary dog, whom he trained […]
Knoxville’s Early Christmas Traditions
December 1, 2025
For many years, the Clarence Brown Theatre has staged a production of Charles Dickens’ classic novella, A Christmas Carol. The story, about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and his visits by four apparitions who encourage his moral reclamation, continues to be […]
National Cemetery
November 1, 2025
Many people are familiar with Knoxville’s Old Gray Cemetery, located on Broadway. With its winding tree-lined lanes and old gravestones, ornate obelisks and memorial statuary, there is no other place quite like it within the city. Yet, immediately to the […]
Currently, the most popular episode in Knoxville History Project’s podcast series, Knoxville Chronicles, is the story, “Creature of the Cumberlands” written by Jack Neely and read by Alex Haralson. It’s not a Halloween-related story, but it’s a bizarre, autumnal, spooky […]
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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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