Take a second look at Pratt’s Country Market
As our readers are now sadly aware, we lost our colleague, Dr. Jim Tumblin, a little over two...
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Saying goodbye to Dr. Jim
There is no other way to say it: Fountain City has a lost a treasure, and we here at Knox TN Today...
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Claudius Capps: Fountain City composer, poet, physician
Except for the two years he spent treating World War I veterans in a hospital in Pittsburgh,...
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Joe Gorman: Fountain City scholar and biographer
Joseph Bruce Gorman was born in Knoxville on Nov. 6, 1940, the youngest of four children of James...
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E.E. Patton: ‘I want to go back’
“I want to spend Christmas in the country and get off the Christmas tree one stick of candy, one...
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Service to country came first for Bobcats coach
Perhaps no time could be more appropriate for a column on Nathan B. “Red” Eubank than November,...
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Harvey Robinson coached legendary Bobcats squad
Coaches like Dan Boring, Frank “Boomer” Boring, Thomas Schumpert, Joel Helton, O.C. Lloyd, “Bud”...
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Andy Sprinkle: A life redeemed
Born in Asheville, North Carolina, on July 12, 1925, Andy Sprinkle attended elementary and high...
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Emory Place was home for ‘The Dummy Line’
Many present-day Knox Countians assume the Fountain Head Railway (The Dummy Line) (1895-1905) used...
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William Warren Nichols: Fountain City WWII hero
William Warren Nichols was born on Oct. 8, 1917, the only child of Clyde L. Nichols (1894-1939)...
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Jim Tumblin is honoree at virtual luncheon
Dr. J.C. “Jim” Tumblin, featured history columnist for KnoxTNToday.com, is the honoree Thursday...
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