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The New Library Calendar: Selected Annotations
November 18, 2014 In Other No Comment

The Knox County Public Library’s new Knoxville history calendar, “Knoxville Remembered,” is out, featuring one rare photo for every month of the next year. Even in 2015, which at this writing is the Future, we can never escape our past. […]

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The Vols’ Second Martyr
November 15, 2014 In University of Tennessee 1 Comment

Despite all the clichés–“that’s one for the books!”—sports history books are pretty rare, and don’t get read much. Even with a subject as popular as the Tennessee Vols, you could fit all the published pages about that team’s deep pre-TV-era […]

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Norris Dryer
October 31, 2014 In People No Comment

Norris Dryer died on Thursday, after several years of faring the unpredictable weather of one of the more dire forms of cancer. We should be thankful to the fates that they allowed him to witness Game 7 of one final […]

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Satanic Verses: A British blues fan solves an old Knoxville mystery, long distance
October 27, 2014 In Other No Comment

That bluesy old old piano song has a name that always makes people laugh. First recorded in May, 1930, by East Knoxville singer Leola Manning, it’s better known now than it was then. Just in the last 20 years, it […]

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