Memorial Day has been celebrated in Knoxville for about as long as the holiday has existed. Originally known as Decoration Day, it was a day for decorating the graves of war dead with flowers. A day to remember Union soldiers […]
For the last few weeks, the Knox County Public Library’s “Paper to Pixels” project has made a couple of decades of News Sentinel articles and ads available to us via the library’s website. Lots of interesting details of Knoxville’s cultural […]
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. Knox Heritage announces its short list of historical resources that are threatened, but show promise for new life in the future. As always, this year’s announcement of the Fragile Fifteen includes a […]
Maybe you haven’t spent much time in Burlington since Ruby’s Coffee Shop closed, 16 years ago. But when you get to the eastern end of MLK, it’s still tempting to pull over and get out of the car. A cluster […]
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. Central Street is the focus of this Sunday’s “Open Streets” festival, when the street turns pedestrians-only for a few hours. One of Knoxville’s oldest streets, it hasn’t always been called Central. South […]
The Knoxville Sessions box-set release of 1929 and 1930 recordings—celebrated with a frequently surprising festival this past weekend—is remarkable for several reasons, nationally or even internationally. It’s a pretty fascinating echo of an underdocumented era from the beginnings of popular […]
When Dick Voynow, who’d once been the piano player for one of the most popular jazz bands in the world, arrived in Knoxville in the fall of 1929 to make some recordings, the sooty, crowded town noisy with streetcars and […]
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. […]
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 […]
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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