People

Gene Burr (1934-2025)
August 27, 2025

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 […]

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Fred Moffatt 1938-2025
August 13, 2025

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 […]

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The Ice Cream Man
August 8, 2025

Alfred E. Anderson’s unique career in civil rights was versatile, inspiring, and ultimately tragic. This is an incomplete story. Like many Black men of his era, there’s much about Alfred Anderson we don’t know, like where he came from or […]

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The Monkey Summer
July 21, 2025

Knoxville’s odd roles in the Trial of the Century   The infamous Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tenn., took place one century ago this month. Its centennial is getting international attention. We don’t think of it as a Knoxville story—but […]

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