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 […]
The European Union crisis can seem far away, but the whole thing has one remote connection to Knoxville. The EU’s predecessor was the European Community, and 34 years ago this summer, their representatives were in an aluminum building over near […]
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 […]
Market Square’s recent film shoot reminded me of an even more famous movie star who was on the same square with an entourage about 46 years ago. Ingrid Bergman came to Knoxville in 1969 to make a movie with Anthony […]
Even before Mayor Rogero made the announcement last week, many of us figured R.B. Morris was already Knoxville’s poet laureate. Morris has been an advocate of poetry in Knoxville for decades, but he came at it from a different direction, […]
Kuumba, the festival of African-American culture, has been celebrated in Knoxville every year since 1989. Founded by African American Appalachian Arts, Kuumba Festival is now a Knoxville tradition. Local founder Nkechi Ajanaku is still in charge of the festivities. Different every […]
There is one place in town where blacks and whites and immigrants mingle daily, in close quarters. They go there for one reason, because jets of cool water shoot out of the ground. High above them, as if symbolizing this […]
By some accounts, the national holiday of Father’s Day was prompted by the Monongah mining disaster of 1907, which killed more than 360 men, most of them fathers. There was an attempt to start a Father’s Day there in 1908, […]
History supplies a handy perspective to almost every current issue. Crazy, angry gunmen, for example. We’ve had them in Knoxville since the saloon era, they always made the papers, and they were often described in vivid detail. (They usually just […]
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