Christmas

Christmas 1918 – Again the Lights Winked
January 15, 2019

Your friend Kumbak, a Mysterious Squadron, and Knoxville’s Niagara: We remember a Knoxville Christmas exactly one century ago. One of downtown’s most popular department stores in 1918 was S.H. George & Son—George’s, to you and me. They were all about […]

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Christmas one century ago: The Baroness Zollner, allegations of espionage, a sudden death, and the mind-reading duck
December 21, 2017

Knoxville in the past can seem like it does in dreams. It’s recognizably the same place, but familiar landmarks slightly twisted and with lots of unsettling differences, erupting with odd events that don’t make sense. During Christmas week, 1917, you […]

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