The cutline for the accompanying photo read “and the band played on.” No, this wasn’t the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The headline read “Explosion Rocks Park Concert by Satchmo.”
For …
Chilhowee Park, dynamite and Louis Armstrong
Honky tonkin’ in the holler: Carl and Pearl Butler
Back in 2015, legendary cross-genre musician Emmy Lou Harris sat down with Dan Rather for one of his Big Interview sessions on AXS-TV. She was speaking about her general dismay …
The heartbeat of downtown Knoxville
On a recent Wednesday, I took a stroll through downtown Knoxville. It was after 7 p.m., and I walked from the Locust Street garage through Market Square, Krutch Park then …
Old Vine Avenue revisited
It’s hard to imagine looking north from downtown and not seeing the steeple of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church perched on Vine Avenue as it has been for nearly 140 years.
Founded …
Celebrating 104 years of women voting in Knoxville
Judging by the front page headlines in what was then The Knoxville Sentinel of September 8, 1919, you’d have no idea of the significant history that happened just two days …
Stepping into history at Ramsey House
A few weeks ago, I reported on the opening of a new exhibit at Historic Ramsey House and its accompanying book further expanding the knowledge of the area we all …
How Karns High School came to be where it is
It’s an interesting angle for selling commercial real estate at auction, advertising the arrival of a new high school still a couple of years from completion.
But that was one of …
Forgotten history in The Fork
Come Friday, a long-awaited installation at Historic Ramsey House will finally be open to the public after a private ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday afternoon. The new exhibit, A Community Born …