Saturday afternoon I found myself leading a tour of festival music-history pilgrims, and encountered a dilemma. It was 4, and Market Square was packed. I looked down one side and the other, and I didn’t think I could get all […]
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It was, more than ever before, a festival of tips on smartphone apps. Attendees got alerts about surprise performances and sold-out shows. The tip I got was strictly analog, a word from a friend in a corner bar. What I […]
Knoxville’s History of Musical Surprises
March 31, 2016
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project The Big Ears Festival is full of surprises. So is Knoxville’s musical history. Here are just a few. In the 1880s, Knoxville held an annual springtime Music Festival, which was devoted […]
Our Man in Havana: James Agee’s One Drink at Sloppy Joe’s
March 30, 2016
Everybody’s going to Havana these days. Obama, the Rolling Stones, half of my chums in Knoxville. I’ve always wanted to see Havana, myself. Cuba doesn’t intersect with Knoxville history very much. The word “Cuba” is on the Spanish-American War statue […]
This column would be more popular if I just gave in and renamed it Concerts We Have Known. After I wrote about the Civic Coliseum dilemma several weeks ago, I heard from a whole lot of people about a whole […]
The Covenant Knoxville Marathon has been held every spring since 2005, and the event reflects Knoxville’s relatively short but impressive history in the world of running. Rarely mentioned in Knoxville’s earliest years, the footrace became more common in the late […]
Six weeks ago I attended the opening of the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Knoxville Seven show. Still hanging, it’s a show devoted to seven brash young artists who, from the late 1940s through the early 1960s, challenged mainstream habits in […]
St. Patrick’s Day in Knoxville
March 10, 2016
St. Patrick’s Day is an old holiday in Knoxville. Irish immigrants and their families have played a major role in Knoxville history. Several of the city’s early founders were Irish immigrants. At least two delegates to the Constitutional Convention that […]
I don’t know how many of our readers are aware of it, but the Knoxville Mercury is unprecedented in the history of American journalism. If this works, and with your help it can, it may be a national model for the […]
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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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