The 1982 World’s Fair: 13 Things that Made It Memorable
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…
Read More >Tag: History
The Unlikely Origins of Knoxville’s Holiday Season
Christmas seems ancient, doesn’t it? The Biblical story is literally ancient, and there seems to be something old fashioned about most of the ways we…
Read More >Portrait Mode: Samuel Shaver Exhibit Throws Back to the 1800s
Individuals or families who wanted to preserve a representation of themselves in the early 1800s hired portrait artists. The subjects might decide to…
Read More >The Mystery of the Eugenia Williams House
On Lyons View, the west-side river-bluff road that is the address of Cherokee Country Club and Lakeshore Park, is a big brick house behind a high wall…
Read More >Alex Haley's Knoxville Forerunner
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…
Read More >Historic Westwood – A Connection to Knoxville’s Artistic History
April 15 is World Art Day, a day dedicated to promote the development, diffusion and enjoyment of art. A visit to Westwood is a connection to the…
Read More >South for the Spring
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…
Read More >Historic Churches in Knoxville
Many of us enjoy seeing the architecture of a city, and houses of worship have played a major role in architecture, design, and history. From…
Read More >Our Female Pioneers: Mary Blount, Elizabeth Roulstone—and Margaret Russell Cowan Humes Ramsey
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…
Read More >Cradle of Country Music Spotify Playlist
Bristol is known as the “Birthplace of Country Music”, today Nashville is home to the Country Music Hall of Fame and famous places where many artists…
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