Knoxville was not always crazy about football. Although college football is most popular in the Southeast, the new sport, which evolved in the Northeast in the 25 years after the Civil War, caught on in other parts of the nation […]

This Friday at 7 p.m., at the East Tennessee History Center, the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound will be showing the 1963 film All the Way Home. It’s based on James Agee’s autobiographical story about his father’s death […]

Over this hot summer, I noticed the UT bookstore, known perhaps more accurately as the VolShop, on Henley Street had closed. I was walking over from UT one searing day in July, and thought I’d pop in there for a […]

The University of Tennessee traces its beginnings to 1794, before Tennessee was even a state. But behind that founding date, which gives UT a claim to be one of the nation’s oldest public universities, is a story of stressful decades […]

This Friday, the 21st, will witness an event of interest to local music and architectural history. [media-credit name=”Courtesy TAMIS” align=”alignright” width=”300″][/media-credit]The old WNOX auditorium is going up for auction. It was designed in the early 1950s, when it looked like […]

The East Tennessee Historical Society has a deep history of its own. It dates back to the presidency of Andrew Jackson. In 1834, physician J.G.M. Ramsey (1797-1884), journalist and cleric Thomas Humes, sometime Congressman John Crozier, Judge William Reese, future […]

I didn’t realize the Baptist Hospital demolition would take out the old Chapman Highway motel that was once a Holiday Inn. Ordinarily the loss of a TV-era motel wouldn’t be a subject for comment, much less tears. It was hardly a […]

Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum will be opening its new Visitors Center on Aug. 14. Located off the beaten path, at 2743 Wimpole Avenue in East Knoxville, the 47-acre refuge is the largest publicly accessible garden in the city’s history. […]

This centennial of the Summer of 1915, celebrated by different audiences around the world through the works of James Agee and Samuel Barber, has been stirring some memories of the same neighborhood in another summer, 36 years ago, when I […]