Stories

Researched narratives from Knoxville’s past
Why Is One of Knoxville’s Most Historic Buildings Named After Andrew Johnson?
May 11, 2017
After years of confirmed rumors, Knox County is indeed trying to sell the 17-story Andrew Johnson Building. It’s open to proposals until July 13. It’s been an office building...
Just a Few of Knoxville’s Memorable Moms
May 11, 2017
All mothers are historic, but here are a few memorable Moms. Mother’s Day started around 1908, when Anna Jarvis, of Grafton, W.V., proposed the holiday just after her own mother’s...
Digby Seymour, 1923-2017
April 29, 2017
The author of one of the best and most enduringly beloved books about Knoxville history died on Thursday at age 93. His masterpiece, Divided Loyalties: Fort Sanders and the Civil...
The Thing Near Second Creek
April 27, 2017
The World’s Fair started 35 years ago this Monday. Today, the pundits who declare media as we know it is coming to an end, observe, as their most damning evidence, that...
Reveries on a Couple of Country-Music Fantasies
April 20, 2017
I’m obliged to submit a melancholy update. I’ve written a couple of articles about a rare and fascinating old building that nobody could figure out what to do with. The big WNOX...
Knoxville’s Early Involvement in the Conservation Movement
April 20, 2017
Knoxville has a deep history of interest, and sometimes national influence, in the natural environment. *** The heavy industry of the 19th century was hard on Knoxville’s...
Why Knoxville Was Called “the Marble City”
April 13, 2017
Stone from Knoxville-area quarries adorns some of the most famous buildings in America. Geologists note that Tennessee marble, often pinkish in hue, is actually a crystalline...
The Case of the Misplaced Markers at Volunteer Landing
April 13, 2017
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about trying to nail down what is to me one of the most intriguing sites in Knoxville history. “Vagabondia Castle” was the old house...
Kingston Pike’s ‘Road of Remembrance’ Was Planned to be an Extraordinary Monument to the Great War’s Dead
April 6, 2017
The centennial of the First World War I on my mind, I was going through some library files when I ran across a picture I’d never seen. A photocopied image from an unknown...


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