Fountain City gets its parade back
I’m going to sound like the aged Rose Dawson in Titanic, “it’s been 84 years.” Not really. Pardon...
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Thomas Pruden of Park Place
An old African proverb states that when an elder passes, it’s as if a library was burnt to the...
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Harvey Broome: Fountain City’s conservation hero
It probably started with a view from his window in his family’s downtown homes, first on East...
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Remembering Bobcat legend Johnny Payne
During my junior year at Central High School, our wonderful A.P. English teacher, Edith Wiles, was...
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Take me back to the Blue Circle
All of my earliest memories, outside of my home and those of my family, involve some place in...
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Forever dreaming of a white Christmas
The young and young at heart are all a-gaggle with the weather forecast for later this week. The...
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Friday bird watch
Back in June, Knox County celebrated its 230th birthday and the state of Tennessee its 226th. We...
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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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Changing of the guard at Sports Treasures
This past week, Eddie Barkley was busy setting up some new social media accounts. On Saturday, he...
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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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Dr. Fred Tallent: a history of generosity and kindness
Few Fountain Citians of the past have been as well known or as respected as Dr. J. Fred Tallent....
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