Over the last several decades, we have accepted two historic neighborhoods divided by Broadway as separate entities: Old North Knoxville and Fourth & Gill. They each have their own associations …
A garden tribute to Andie Ray
It’s just a stone’s throw from the big red Adirondack chair and the Trees 4 Two Nations. There are keys cast in the concrete at the foot of the wooden …
Looking Back: The Old City Club and Lord Lindsey’s
A little over 30 years ago I walked through the doors of a stately old building on Gay Street and entered a restaurant I didn’t know existed. I was meeting …
Bygone days at Bell House School
One of the great mysteries in Knoxville history is the location of Tennessee’s first state capitol building. In the early days when Knoxville was the capital of the Southwest Territory …
Bandit’s run ends in East Knoxville 90 years ago
He was public enemy No. 1 on East Tennessee’s most-wanted list. The mountain folk said the law would never take “Pee-Jem” alive, that he knew the hills and hollers better …
South Knoxville Baptist reduced to ashes 50 years ago
The ruse was pretty elaborate for a 19-year-old kid. On Sunday evening, July 28, 1974, one Bruce Michael Partlow of Akron, Ohio, was singing with the choir of the South …
Bootleggin’ in Lyons Bend
The defendant was hoping to skate on a technicality. The judge was having none of it. It was January 1926, and one Arthur Cox of Lyons Bend was in the …
Sorry, the Blizzard of ’93 was worse
I wasn’t planning to write about the weather again this week (see story here), but Mother Nature hasn’t accomplished much with “the melt” just yet, so here we are. The …