A lot of my younger friends are posting pictures this week of their pride-and-joys beginning their college years. My Facebook and Instagram feeds show these happy young men and women …
Food truck park coming this fall
Central Filling Station in downtown Knoxville and South Side Garage in SoKno are popular food truck parks that evolved from former gas stations. And while there used to be a …
Home, cooking … family style
There’s nothing like being home.
In this instance, I don’t mean the place you live now, but the place where you grew up, the home where your memories and those experiences …
Free Flu Saturday is a ‘Go’ for Sept. 19
Yes! It’s going to happen. If you’ve wondered about flu shots this year, wonder no more: 2020’s Free Flu Shot Saturday, the 28th version, will be held on Saturday, Sept. …
Escaping to Chateau Elan
I don’t write much about the third love-of-my-life.
First, of course, is family, and Kitchen Table Talk centers around family quite often.
Second is friends, and they get a pretty good representation, …
Farragut High School’s first principal: Miss Amanda Stoltzfus
It was a fortunate stroke of serendipity in 1871 when “Tennessee” John Stoltzfus left Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with five of his children and their families in search for affordable farmland and …
Wrap up summer 2020 with free fun
Last summer, at the end of the school year, I wrote a column about free stuff to do in Farragut. This year the school year never really ended; it just …
C-N president says pandemic won’t affect mission
Carson-Newman University President Dr. Charles Fowler says part of his welcome to East Tennessee in the summer of 2019 included a quick lesson on how to pronounce “Appalachia.”
“After my speech …