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It’s been an odd fall, and not just because I still have a yellow flower on my surviving tomato plant. This past weekend its leaves still smelled like July.  In the Old City, at the corner of Central and Willow, […]

Frances Hodgson Burnett is often considered a British writer. However, she began her professional writing career when she lived in Knoxville. Her name is known around the world. Her books, several of them still in print, have inspired more than 50 […]

The William Hastie Natural Area, part of the Knoxville Urban Wilderness, is named for a federal judge who pioneered civil rights and was arguably America’s first black governor. He was born in Knoxville 111 years ago on Nov. 17. When […]

People who grew up knowing Central Avenue are just now getting used to calling it Central Street, as their great-grandparents did. It makes sense, by the pattern we’ve set up. But we’ve complicated things, and, as is often the case, […]

When Knoxville first celebrated Veterans Day, it was headline news. At 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918, Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, and the news was cabled around the world. Allied leaders famously arranged the signing of the armistice, […]

A couple of months ago I asked to hear from readers who might have witnessed Nina Simone’s rare, perhaps only, Knoxville appearance. Until seeing a new movie this past summer, I had never heard that Simone, the extraordinary singer who was […]

Like most holidays, Halloween changes with each new generation. Before about 1945, the holiday was usually spelled with an apostrophe, as “Hallow E’en” or “Hallowe’en,” to indicate that it was a shortening of the word Even, or evening. Although it’s […]

The commitment of Regal Entertainment Group to a headquarters on the south bank is about as good news as we ever deserve. It is, to begin with, the elusive “corporate headquarters” that honchos in suits have been claiming is the prerequisite […]