Last Thursday afternoon, the Metropolitan Planning Commission unexpectedly rejected its own staff’s recommendations and declined to endorse Mayor Rogero’s much-publicized initiative to give the Cal Johnson Building on State Street H-1 historical protection. It takes some imagination to call it […]
Knoxville is not famous for its architecture, but maybe it can be. Thomas Hope, who was a furniture maker and planner of homes, is often described as Knoxville’s first architect. Originally from England, Hope (1757-1820) had lived in Charleston before […]
Saturday afternoon I found myself leading a tour of festival music-history pilgrims, and encountered a dilemma. It was 4, and Market Square was packed. I looked down one side and the other, and I didn’t think I could get all […]
It was, more than ever before, a festival of tips on smartphone apps. Attendees got alerts about surprise performances and sold-out shows. The tip I got was strictly analog, a word from a friend in a corner bar. What I […]
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project The Big Ears Festival is full of surprises. So is Knoxville’s musical history. Here are just a few. In the 1880s, Knoxville held an annual springtime Music Festival, which was devoted […]
Everybody’s going to Havana these days. Obama, the Rolling Stones, half of my chums in Knoxville. I’ve always wanted to see Havana, myself. Cuba doesn’t intersect with Knoxville history very much. The word “Cuba” is on the Spanish-American War statue […]
This column would be more popular if I just gave in and renamed it Concerts We Have Known. After I wrote about the Civic Coliseum dilemma several weeks ago, I heard from a whole lot of people about a whole […]
The Covenant Knoxville Marathon has been held every spring since 2005, and the event reflects Knoxville’s relatively short but impressive history in the world of running. Rarely mentioned in Knoxville’s earliest years, the footrace became more common in the late […]
Six weeks ago I attended the opening of the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Knoxville Seven show. Still hanging, it’s a show devoted to seven brash young artists who, from the late 1940s through the early 1960s, challenged mainstream habits in […]
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