What remains of our last big national celebration, and the mystery of Buster Muggs It’s America’s 250th, and the nation seems at odds about how or whether to celebrate it. For whatever it’s worth, it does seem to be […]
The Lawson McGhee Library, on the corner of W. Church Avenue and Walnut Street, has stood there for more than 50 years. Crammed full of books, DVDs, vinyl records and other media, serves the community, just like its numerous branches, […]
The tragic story of a once-controversial architect who’s in the national news again. The last year has brought a lot of unaccustomed anxiety in Washington and across the country about presidential initiatives concerning iconic national architecture, new and old. There’s […]
Or, what do Frances Hodgson Burnett and George Takei have in common? We may not often associate Knoxville with Mardi Gras, a French term to describe a Catholic tradition. But there’s more to it than we might expect. To begin […]
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 […]
Chug Rigsby, crazy drunks, radio pleas, a riverside boulevard, a new football coach, and Knoxville’s Christmas of 1925 Written by Jack Neely. A century ago it was snowing over much of the eastern part of the nation. People anticipated a […]
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 […]
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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