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An Education at Park Junior High

In Restless Native by Chris WohlwendNovember 25, 2015leave a COMMENT

My move to junior high school was, in many ways, more than a mere move. It was a leap. I went from the neighborhood atmosphere of Fair Garden—on Fern Street …

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From Jefferson County to the Playboy Mansion

In Restless Native by Chris WohlwendOctober 28, 2015leave a COMMENT

The building on Dale Avenue between the interstate and the chemical plant long known as Rohm & Haas is a pile of rubble now, and the tenants who called it …

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Lessons on the Trail With Troop 15, BSA

In Restless Native by Chris WohlwendOctober 7, 2015leave a COMMENT

Troop 15, Boy Scouts of America, met on Thursday nights at Kirkwood Presbyterian Church, on McCalla Avenue in Burlington. The church building was small, but there was an adequate meeting …

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Recalling a Storied Vols Victory—From the Vantage Point of a VW Beetle

In Restless Native by Chris WohlwendSeptember 23, 2015leave a COMMENT

In the fall of 1964, the year after Georgia Tech had departed the Southeastern Conference and the football rivalry between the Yellow Jackets and Tennessee was still fierce, two friends …

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How Jerry “Ace” Miller Became the Main Force Behind Knoxville’s Boxing Scene

In Restless Native by Chris WohlwendSeptember 9, 2015leave a COMMENT

The characters who worked at the Knoxville newspapers in the 1960s were not confined to the newsrooms. One of the more memorable—the powers-that-be would have said “notorious”—was a pressman named …

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