On Sunday I took a stroll from a friend’s house in Sterchi Hills, up Jim Sterchi Drive and hooked a right down Dante Road. Now, my mama didn’t raise a …
Sam Orleans: Pioneer in motion picture production
If you haven’t seen Lights! Camera! East Tennessee yet at the Museum of East Tennessee History, you still have time. In fact, April 26 may be the ideal time to explore this …
Endless summers at Beaver Brook
In just a few more weeks, the Knox County school year will come to a close. When I was a young student of the Knoxville City School System, summer vacation …
Knoxville driver’s last lap at the Indy 500
When just a young boy of 5 or 6, Bill Walker made a pilgrimage with his mother and aunt to Asbury Cemetery in East Knox County. Though he spent his …
Easter 1933: Market Square, beer and puppy dogs
Here’s a headline you don’t read every day: “Pretty Flowers Displace Hog Jowls and Liver on the Square.” The referenced “square,” of course is our own Market Square downtown, and …
WW2 soldier grew up in Dempster-Francis House
The word has been out for the past week that the famous Dempster mansion on Gibbs Drive in Fountain City is up for sale, for a cool $1.2 million if …
Ode to the Coliseum: Shout it Out Loud
Recently I was dining out with a friend for her birthday. While waiting for food to arrive, I gazed at the art decorating the restaurant’s walls. My eyes lit upon …
Everybody’s Irish for a day
God willing and the creek don’t rise, Knoxville’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade will step off at 7 p.m. this Friday, making its way north on Gay Street from Church Street, …