Over the last several decades, we have accepted two historic neighborhoods divided by Broadway as separate entities: Old North Knoxville and Fourth & Gill. They each have their own associations …
A look back on the Fourth
The fireworks have already been popping for days as we finally arrive on Independence Day. No doubt they will be going on for several more. Though illegal in Knox County, …
A walk among the tombstones
The Knoxville History Project is once again participating with Old Gray Cemetery’s annual fundraiser, Spirits of Old Gray, leading personal tours of the 171-year-old memorial gardens. This burial place for …
Stride Rites on a hot tin roof
My first memory of going to buy shoes was at the Coffin Shoe Store in Fountain City. Without fail, every year my mother took me to get a new pair …