Obituaries

Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter John Noble Wilford died on Dec. 8. Raised in western Kentucky, Wilford spent much of his career writing for the New York Times, best known for his science reporting and especially his insights about the space program during […]

Ted Baehr was for many years the de facto grand vizier of the Calvin McClung Historical Collection, the no-nonsense supervisor of that reference library as most of its patrons came to know it. When I first met Ted, maybe 40 […]

We’re grieving the recent loss of one of our best friends and most generous early supporters, Jane Albright. A career educator, she worked for Carson Newman University, where she was a librarian and taught information science for many years in […]

We grieve the loss of our friend Bill Snyder, a remarkably unusual fellow in the history of any city. The respected engineering professor became dean of UT’s College of Engineering, and then the chancellor of the University of Tennessee, a […]

He was arguably the last of a cadre that, more than half a century ago, changed the way we think about old buildings and, to some extent, our downtown, and in so doing, changed the course of Knoxville in a […]

We’ve lost another of a generation of groundbreaking stalwarts of Knoxville history in the passing of author and teacher Fred Moffatt. He was a historian who went his own way, and brought light to some stories we might not have […]