Maybe this winter of our discontent gets the credit for reintroducing me to carrots. For it was mere weeks before the area’s frosty tundra/snow globe imitation that my daughter plunked …
John Coykendall, Knoxville’s Seed Savior to the World
Even his dog. John Coykendall seeks heirloom seeds to preserve from many different sources: childhood friends and seed-saving pen pals, visitors to the Walland, Tenn. Blackberry Farm luxury hotel and …
Cooking Corn on a Hoe
A connoisseur of corn, that’s John Coykendall—and he’s a corn historian and cook, as well. Though his employer, Blackberry Farm inn and resort in Walland, Tenn., doesn’t grow sweet corn …
Q&A: Charlie Thomas, Former Volunteer with Project Safe Passage in Guatemala
Charlie Thomas will introduce the short documentary Recycled Life for its screening April 20 as part of the Cine HoLa film series. The film tells the story of the life …
UT’s Third Annual Sex Week Features New Programs, New Organizers—and a Surprising Lack of Legislative Outrage
It was a compromise of sorts. Last June, the University of Tennessee’s Board of Trustees approved a policy requiring students to “opt-in” to authorize about $20 of fees to go …