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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Now well past its 100th anniversary, the Tennessee Valley Fair, when it opens on September 5, continues its legacy as one of the most fun events on the fall calendar. The spot where it all takes place, Chilhowee Park, looms […]
When you browse the online Calvin M. McClung Digital Collection, you might see what look like the exact same historical photographs placed side by side. These are stereograph images, which were produced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries […]
Launched in 2017 by the Knoxville History Project, Downtown Art Wraps is an art and history initiative that aims to inspire an appreciation of the city’s rich artistic heritage. Eight years later, this ever-changing public art exhibition now features 40 […]
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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