Clyde Shultz was a slim, clean-cut, earnest-looking fellow. He had ambitions, but nothing ever worked out for him, not for long, anyway. He grew up on a farm in Concord, and moved to California, during the era the Okies were […]

There are still mysteries about its origins, but Aug. 8 is believed to be the day Andrew Johnson freed his slaves. Johnson, most famous as the 17th president of the United States, lived in Greeneville, Tenn. His role in ending […]

That’s what they called the baseball field on the riverside flood plain below Cherokee Boulevard. Half a century ago, I played baseball down there. Framed by wooded residential lots on either side, the Polo Field was the bottom of a […]

Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. Knoxville Area Transit now offers the Green Line, a new trolley route that serves the Old City area. It’s free, and so is this paper. If you have about 15 minutes […]

Years ago, I wrote about one of East Knoxville’s oddest curiosities: Burlington’s Speedway Circle, which is a curiosity in itself, a road planted along the track of Cal Johnson’s Victorian-era horse-racing track. But on the half-mile oval is a house […]

Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. Celebrated here since 1793, the Fourth of July may be Knoxville’s oldest holiday. But it’s not our only thing to celebrate in July. This Fourth of July is also the 155th […]