A while back, I got a surprising phone call from an old friend. I’d been writing some about some legendary jazz-era icons who I’d just learned, thanks to Papers to Pixels, had been repeat performers in Knoxville venues. Erskine Hawkins, […]
Knoxville Brewfest highlights new beers, but our brewing tradition goes way back. Beer became popular here with the immigration of German and Irish immigrants in the mid- 1800s. By 1869, Knoxville hosted two breweries, both on Second Creek. The Union […]
Nkechi Ajanaku died last week at age 60. She was best known as the longtime director of Kuumba, Knoxville’s biggest annual African-American festival since its inception. With the exception of Emancipation Day, Aug. 8, which was celebrated for decades and […]
Last week I wrote about the new Suttree Landing Park, and its surprising nod to a novel by Cormac McCarthy whose primary setting is a Knoxville underworld of riverside shantytowns and tavernboats. The south bank was the setting for some […]
June 5 is the 150th birthday of Pattie Boyd (1867-1947). Although a woman named Elizabeth Roulsone became publisher of the Knoxville Gazette after her husband’s death in 1804, and ran Tennessee’s first newspaper for four years, Boyd is remembered as […]
Suttree Landing Park looks nautical, with little pocket lookouts for picnics or contemplation almost like jetties. Stand at one of these promontories on a Saturday afternoon and you can hear beery-sounding laughter from half a mile away, across the river, […]
Some suburbanites who know Magnolia Avenue only from vice reports in the news pronounce it with a shiver. It’s a butt of complacent cocktail-party jokes. Newcomers to town, free of preconceptions, see Magnolia Avenue for the first time and say, […]
After years of confirmed rumors, Knox County is indeed trying to sell the 17-story Andrew Johnson Building. It’s open to proposals until July 13. It’s been an office building for 30 years. For half a century before that, it was […]
All mothers are historic, but here are a few memorable Moms. Mother’s Day started around 1908, when Anna Jarvis, of Grafton, W.V., proposed the holiday just after her own mother’s death. She intended it as a way to remember to […]
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