The Battle of the Bulge, the Nuremberg Trials, the assassinations of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., Watergate and the Iran Hostage Crisis; these are just a handful …
Storm of the Century clobbered Knoxville 30 years ago
Mother Nature is being her tempestuous self, teasing us with a taste of spring just before dipping the thermometer again and reminding us that winter ain’t over till it’s over. …
Goodbye to the wild Ginger Man
This is Cumberland Avenue requiem week, so here’s another one. I wouldn’t dare try to follow Beth Kinnane’s excellent summation of the modern history of The Strip, so I’ve borrowed …
Swan song for The Strip: It’s just Cumberland Avenue, now
Back in 1990, I was a cub reporter at the late, great Knoxville Journal. At the end of August that year, I broke a story about the coming demise of …
The ‘greening’ of The Strip
The city of Knoxville will plant 93 big trees on Cumberland Avenue from Dec. 18-21 as a final step in the two-year reconstruction of the primary connector between West Knoxville …