Trouble with Tories
As we continue to move toward our nation’s semiquincentennial, I’m still focusing on elements of...
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Category: Our Town Stories
Suddenly last summer: the 1982 World’s Fair
Sitting in the corner of my room is a large, red and white paneled golf umbrella with a straight...
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Ty Myers started young, still young and is earning success
It’s hard to talk about Ty Myers without starting with the fact that he’s now on his second...
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From part-time tutor to AI innovator, Jan Taylor has done it all during 26 year tenure
She’s come a long way in 26 years, and while she still has plenty of room to keep going, it won’t...
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Absalom Rutherford: He had gray eyes
As we continue to move toward our nation’s semiquincentennial, I’m still focusing on elements of...
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Oakwood: C. B. Atkin’s lasting legacy
For decades, travelers arriving in Knoxville via Southern Railroad could step off their train and...
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Food City celebrates Earth Day every day
The statistics say it all about Food City’s commitment to the environment. Betsi James is...
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The Cruzes: They had cows
As we continue to move toward our nation’s semiquincentennial, I’m still focusing on elements of...
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Fire on the mountain
Last week I took a sunset drive out from Fountain City to Corryton with my camera in tow to have a...
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The Sullivan Space in memory/honor of Miller Sullivan
If you had the honor of knowing Miller Bruce Sullivan, you knew a gifted, kind, and beautiful gift...
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Dr. James Cozby: He stunned the courtroom
As we continue to move toward our nation’s semiquincentennial, I’m still focusing on elements of...
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Old Booth Theatre, a lingering vestige of The Strip
I was recently perusing the internet for a copy of Cumberland Avenue Revisited: Four Decades of...
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