Don’t forget the cranberries – Bandits on Broadway
The debate will go on for centuries: How do you take your cranberries at Thanksgiving dinner?...
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Tag: Fountain City
When the Klan came to the old Tower Theatre
Back in August of 1957, Tennessee’s state softball championships were being held in Nashville....
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Fountain City United Methodist celebrates 200 years
As I was leaving the Fountain City Library the other day, I paused to check out the display cases...
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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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