Dick McMillan didn’t think too much of it when a guidance counselor encouraged him to fill out an application for the Federal Bureau of Investigation during his senior year in …
Stonemasons of Winfrey Hollow move to Concord
Back in 1914, young Lucy Winfrey was looking forward to the best year of her life. She’d be turning “Sweet 16” that year. Though she could easily walk to Knoxville …
Glenmary: That other Ramsey House
There are some parts of west Knox County that are not as easily defined as say, Farragut or Hardin Valley, and they’re in the county, but have those odd fingers …
Fire it up – Halloween 1966
When I was a kid, the rumors surrounding Halloween mischief usually revolved around this or that crazy lady sticking razor blades in apples. Some older trick or treaters might go …
The tragedy of Mamie Rhea
A little over 90 years ago, a young woman from Coal Creek unwittingly jumped to her death from a plane nearly 2,000 feet above Island Home Airport. To be sure, …
Sequoyah Hills: What might have been
That’s a head scratcher of a headline for a story about what is arguably Knoxville’s most exclusive neighborhood. But, were it not for the economic crisis known as the Panic …
Chilhowee Park, dynamite and Louis Armstrong
The cutline for the accompanying photo read “and the band played on.” No, this wasn’t the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The headline read “Explosion Rocks Park Concert by Satchmo.”
For …
Honky tonkin’ in the holler: Carl and Pearl Butler
Back in 2015, legendary cross-genre musician Emmy Lou Harris sat down with Dan Rather for one of his Big Interview sessions on AXS-TV. She was speaking about her general dismay …