Stories

Researched narratives from Knoxville’s past
A Night In Happy Holler
February 20, 2015
Last week I was at Time Warp Tea Room for a full house, a satisfying and inexpensive meal on a cold February night. Proprietor Dan Moriarty presides over the Time Warp like...
Robby Griffith, and the people you almost know
February 4, 2015
I can’t claim to have known Robby Griffith. In my many encounters with him at Lawson McGhee Library, where he worked for a quarter century, he was always cordial and quietly...
Mad Pilgrimage: the new biography of Tennessee Williams, and the unfinished project of Lyle Leverich
January 19, 2015
John Lahr’s new biography is called “Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh.” It’s a pity Lahr chose that particular subtitle. Now, when I write my autobiography,...
Obama’s Knoxville Visit
January 8, 2015
Here’s a coincidence. When I was naïve enough to think there might be a Metro Pulse still in publication in January, 2015, I made a note in my calendar to look into a column...
The First Municipal Christmas Tree: A Knoxville Christmas, 1914
December 19, 2014
Weathermen had predicted a white Christmas. It was almost cold enough. For days, the temperature never climbed out of the 30s, and then it got colder. But in Knoxville, all it did was rain,...
Gideon Fryer, 1921-2014
December 16, 2014
This column has taken me a good deal longer to write than I expected. I told Gideon Fryer about a year ago that I could write a profile of him every year without repeating...
The New Library Calendar: Selected Annotations
November 18, 2014
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,...
The Vols’ Second Martyr
November 15, 2014
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...
Norris Dryer
October 31, 2014
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...


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