Stories

Researched narratives from Knoxville’s past
Knox County Public Library Foundation’s Ambitious Paper to Pixels Project
September 11, 2015
The Knox County Public Library Foundation is taking on its most ambitious project: to digitize all the copies of one Knoxville newspaper from 1922 to 1990. Why digitize a newspaper?...
Keith Bellows, 1951-2015
September 9, 2015
In the wake of his sudden death Saturday before last, dozens of travel-writing professionals have been hailing Keith Bellows as a giant in the industry: “brilliant, a creative...
The Birth of Tennessee Football
September 3, 2015
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...
Michael Kearney, the Child Actor of ‘All the Way Home,’ Revisits Knoxville
September 2, 2015
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...
End-Of-Summer Reflections on a Few Recent Transitions
August 26, 2015
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,...
The University of Tennessee: The Trip to the Hill
August 20, 2015
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...
WNOX’s Forgotten Auditorium Is Up for Sale
August 19, 2015
This Friday, the 21st, will witness an event of interest to local music and architectural history. [media-credit name=”Courtesy TAMIS” align=”alignright”...
A Short History of the East Tennessee Historical Society
August 13, 2015
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...
An Unmourned Demolition: This Holiday Inn Wasn’t Just Another Holiday Inn
August 12, 2015
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...


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