(Names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty.)
Life as a fearless young Marine Pirate growing up in Fountain City was not always a nonstop adventure. For example, …
A memory of Christmas past
Adventures growing up in Fountain City: The Marine Pirate legend
Previously, I’ve written about my misadventures with Danny growing up. Danny was my best friend as well as the friend most likely to bring me to grief.
I became friends with …
Adventures growing up in Fountain City, mostly true
When last we saw our intrepid adventurers, yours truly and his pal Danny, they were fresh from an exercise in dam building in Fountain City Park that succeeded all too …
Adventures growing up in Fountain City, mostly true
Like Popeye, I was born as a very young child. My earliest years were spent in the hinterland of Knox County, a brisk 10-minute walk from the Union County line. …
The Fountain City Water Company, 1931-1966
Fountain City has been called Knoxville’s most fiercely independent community. In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s a welcome sign on Broadway near Greenway proclaimed the message “The Nation’s Largest Unincorporated …
Services Monday for Wanda Williams
Wanda Shaver Williams, 74, wife of WBIR anchor emeritus Bill Williams, passed away October 26 after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. Monday, …
Dr. Samuel Tillery: Fountain City’s first physician
Living in 2019 with the medical breakthroughs we enjoy, we can only imagine the challenges of Fountain City’s first physician who practiced medicine for over 50 years with the diagnostic …
John H. Newman and the development of Hotel Avenue
Long before the Fountain City A&P, well before the White Store (now Food City) and many decades before Kroger, there was J.H. Newman and Sons Grocery Store. Photographic records indicate …