Lots of events are opening the day after Thanksgiving and running through all or part of the holiday season.
Zoo Lights Knoxville at Zoo Knoxville starts Nov. 27 through Jan. 3 …
Zoo Lights, Peppermint Trail and more kick off holiday season
Hensley Motor Service: Early Fountain City meeting place
Staley Hensley (1905-1950) along with his brother, Bearl, ran the Hensley Motor Service across from the Fountain City Bank (now First Horizon) on North Broadway. Few families have a longer …
Garrett Hanas: Helping local veterans
Garrett Hanas spent a large chunk of his long military career jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. There’s a good chance he’s the only person you’ll ever meet who’s twice …
Dunn reflects on legislative service
Bill Dunn took a seat in the state legislature in 1994, replacing the retiring Charlie Severance. He spent 26 years without a primary opponent, making him the longest serving House …
Heather Webb Donahue: Getting busy living
Heather Webb Donahue’s voice trembles with a soft vibrato when she speaks. Sometimes her hands shake, ever so slightly, as well. The source of the seismic shifts is a vagus …
Mary Frances Housley: Carnegie Hero Fund recipient
Central High School health science teacher Chris Hammond worked for three years to accomplish the installation of a state historical marker dedicated to Mary Frances Housley, a former Central High …
John I. Copeland: Fountain City’s eccentric genius
Franklin D. Roosevelt had his eccentric genius, a man named Louis M. Howe. Downtown Knoxville had its John R. Neal. And Fountain City’s eccentric genius was John Isaac Copeland. Probably …
Michael Wylie remembered by friends
Michael Allen Wylie, 69, passed away September 1, 2020. He was a well-known real estate appraiser who had worked with his father, the late Frank Wylie, in Appraisal Associates.
Mr. Wylie …