The Flatwater Tales Storytelling Festival, featuring three nationally renowned storytellers, is back with in-person performances June 3 and 4. Early bird ticket prices are available through May 15. This popular …
Need inspiration? Look to Lizzie Crozier French
As women’s rights increasingly come under attack throughout the United States, it’s important for East Tennessee women to remember that one of the most inspirational figures in the nation’s suffrage …
The Dixie-Lee Drive-In: Fond memories in Farragut
Not a word had been said, but the signs were right! It had been a beautiful summer day without a raincloud in sight. Everyone had been fed an early supper, …
Foolish Pleasure: When Knoxville won the roses
A touch over 50 years ago on a farm down in Williston, Florida, a plain bay thoroughbred colt was born on March 23, 1972. Nobody around here (or anywhere for …
Mickey Mantle: ‘The beginning of the end’
Sixty years ago, there wasn’t as much going on as today. Spring and summer meant baseball. And baseball meant Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese on TV, broadcasting the game …
Claudius Capps: Fountain City composer, poet, physician
Except for the two years he spent treating World War I veterans in a hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Claudius M. Capps was a lifelong resident of Knoxville. The family lived …
Excitement builds for Vestival, Candoro
In South Knoxville, one of the sure signs of spring – apart from redbud and dogwood blossoms – is Vestival, the music and arts festival hosted at the Candoro Marble …
Steve McMahan: A legacy of hard work
The Halls community lost a builder, developer and visionary with the death of Stephen V. McMahan on March 3, 2022. Steve, 70, had struggled with cancer for seven years.
The homes, …