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 […]
The often-forgotten diversity of 1790s Knoxville Ken Burns’ The American Revolution was a powerful prelude to the 250th anniversary of the United States. One point the documentary makes over and over concerns the surprising diversity of America’s original patriots. If […]
Just beyond the edge of the town’s original 64 lots laid out in 1791, the intersection of Gay Street and Clinch Avenue has long been a bustling place in downtown Knoxville. Today, thousands of people walk or drive through here […]
We’re grieving the recent loss of one of our best friends and most generous early supporters, Jane Albright. A career educator, she worked for Carson Newman University, where she was a librarian and taught information science for many years in […]
Peabody School, Knoxville’s first public school, later known as our Labor Temple, is in peril On a broken segment of half-forgotten Morgan Street is a building not like any other downtown. It’s getting a lot more attention lately, partly just […]
We grieve the loss of our friend Bill Snyder, a remarkably unusual fellow in the history of any city. The respected engineering professor became dean of UT’s College of Engineering, and then the chancellor of the University of Tennessee, a […]
The steps of the Dr. John Mason Boyd memorial arch at the corner of Gay Street and Main Street offer a fine perch to ponder bygone times in this old section of downtown. Anyone who has more than just glanced […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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