After 40 years, it’s still hard to believe it happened. Even those who don’t remember the 1982 World’s Fair – and at this point, most Americans weren’t even alive then – are obliged to know something about it. It’s the answer to “What’s that big golden thing standing on the west side of downtown?”…
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Forty years ago, Knoxville hosted a world’s fair to highlight ways of dealing with a future with limited supplies of energy. Planned during the Energy Crisis of the 1970s, the big fair, originally known as the Knoxville International Energy Exposition, presented hundreds of solutions, both in terms…
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For kids and kids at heart, there’s nothing like the wonder of dinosaur bones and fossils. October 13 happens to be National Fossil Day, and we’d like to share the hidden gem that is McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture. This facility is a Smithsonian Affiliate and located on the campus of…
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We all know that Knoxville was the final home of author Alex Haley, author of Roots, a groundbreaking narrative that traces his family back through…
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April is a historic month, especially regarding the Civil War. It was in April 1865 that the major armies of the Confederacy surrendered to U.S…
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Knoxville Entrepreneur Center has a big-idea-over-achieving-pie-in-the-sky purpose—and that is changing lives through entrepreneurship. We are dedicated to creating space for big ideas—where innovation is rewarded, creativity is allowed to flourish, and everyone is welcome to join the party. We are…
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It's Women's History Month. In 2020 we celebrated the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, and learned a lot about Women's Suffrage, and it's a…
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How often do you think of Knoxville as the “Birthplace of Tennessee”? Whether you’ve heard that, or not, it’s one of our city’s distinctions. Many remember when a Gay Street plaque, now vanished, made that claim. It happened downtown, 225 years ago this winter. And it was no ordinary birth of a…
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In some circles, the year 2020 has been called a “dumpster fire”. Defined as a metaphor for chaotically bad situations or laughably poor performance…
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November is National Native American Heritage Month, and visitors often ask about Native American culture and history in Knoxville and the surrounding area. This post by the Executive Director and Director of Marketing and Public Relations at Blount Mansion shares about Knoxville’s early days…
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