Every now and then a story will lead directly into another. Yesterday’s feature on the kinship of the Coffin family to Tennessee Williams led to an email from another Williams …
Girl Scouts help Random Acts of Flowers
Girl Scout Troop 20034 of Knoxville delivered 213 vases that they collected through a vase drive held during December and January. When delivering, the Girl Scouts helped out by washing …
Stride Rites on a hot tin roof
My first memory of going to buy shoes was at the Coffin Shoe Store in Fountain City. Without fail, every year my mother took me to get a new pair …
First Presbyterian: Witness to history
Founded in 1792, downtown Knoxville’s First Presbyterian Church is the oldest established church in Knoxville. The original church land was donated by James White, Knoxville’s founder. The church website offers …
Francis Graffeo: playing a new tune
Among the many things the COVID-19 pandemic has proven is that human beings were made for innovation. The past 10 months have seen one postponement after another along with the …
Gordon Johnson: Push through and do the job
Gordon Johnson, 33, has degrees in Spanish and biology from the University of Memphis. For eight years he worked in a research laboratory at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. But …
Women of the Bible exhibit comes to town
The Emporium Center welcomes a new solo exhibit, Women of the Bible: Portraits of Beauty, Audacity and Faith, from Alabama artist LaShonda Scott Robinson. The show opens Friday, Jan. 8, …
Beauford Delaney prominent in ETHS exhibit
Continuing through Feb.1, the East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) presents Black & White, Knoxville in the Jim Crow Era featuring the stories of African American artists Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, …