We grieve the loss of our friend Bill Snyder, a remarkably unusual fellow in the history of any city. The respected engineering professor became dean of UT’s College of Engineering, and then the chancellor of the University of Tennessee, a […]

He was arguably the last of a cadre that, more than half a century ago, changed the way we think about old buildings and, to some extent, our downtown, and in so doing, changed the course of Knoxville in a […]

We’ve lost another of a generation of groundbreaking stalwarts of Knoxville history in the passing of author and teacher Fred Moffatt. He was a historian who went his own way, and brought light to some stories we might not have […]