Stories

Researched narratives from Knoxville’s past
Romanesque Revival: A Renovation Uncovers a Forgotten Old Hotel
June 3, 2015
If you find yourself ambling on North Gay, as I do when I park free under the highway, you may be in for a start. The familiar building many of us grew up with known as Regas...
NPR’s Steve Inskeep Pits Two Dynamic American Figures Against Each Other in ‘Jacksonland’
May 27, 2015
Jacksonland is a book nobody much expected—perhaps not even, until a couple of years ago, its author, Steve Inskeep. NPR’s morning host is known for his up-to-the-minute...
Historic Christenberry House Demolished
May 26, 2015
The century-old Christenberry house at 3222 Kingston Pike, near Sequoyah Hills, the subject of several varieties of contention over the last couple of years, no longer exists....
The Anti-Preservationist’s Secret Heartbreak
May 20, 2015
A month ago I proffered a challenge: to name one instance in which tearing down a building 75 years old or more resulted in something better than the building that was demolished...
So Prodigal Bounty: A Meditation on Knoxville’s Culinary Past
May 13, 2015
Old newspapers, legal documents, letters, and directories of various sorts are full of mundane detail. More interesting stuff about life in Knoxville more than a century ago is often...
The Lost Art of Ali Akbar
May 6, 2015
Ali Akbar, or Horace Pittman, as he was previously known, died suddenly in late 2009 at the age of 64. That’s too young to die, but even so he was perhaps 20 years older...
Downtown’s Garrotte: Can We Reimagine Urban Highways to Prevent Strangulation?
May 6, 2015
At a recent public forum, citizens and city leaders discussed the several recommendations of the Urban Land Institute’s short study last October. One of them concerned the urban...
Knoxville’s Nearly Forgotten Memorial to America’s Deadliest Maritime Disaster, the Sultana
April 29, 2015
If it had happened in any month other than April, 1865, they say, it would be the legendary American disaster every school kid knew about. It would be the subject of folksongs...
A Sesquicentennial Stroll Downtown
April 29, 2015
A city as divided as Knoxville is obliged to be polite. Hence there’s never been a Civil War monument downtown. The monuments on the Knox County Courthouse lawn reflect...


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