Vagabondia Castle

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 where Frances Hodgson Burnett and her brothers and sisters—most […]

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Finding Vagabondia: New Clues, and Two Theories About a Novelist’s Legendary Inspiration
March 9, 2017

A researcher happened across some clues to an old mystery that’s been nagging at me for a quarter century. In the mix is a pretty incredible coincidence. For a column in Metro Pulse back in the ’90s, I outlined the […]

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