The World’s Fair started 35 years ago this Monday. Today, the pundits who declare media as we know it is coming to an end, observe, as their most damning evidence, …
Reveries on a Couple of Country-Music Fantasies
I’m obliged to submit a melancholy update. I’ve written a couple of articles about a rare and fascinating old building that nobody could figure out what to do with. The …
The Case of the Misplaced Markers at Volunteer Landing
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about trying to nail down what is to me one of the most intriguing sites in Knoxville history. “Vagabondia Castle” was the old …
Kingston Pike’s ‘Road of Remembrance’ Was Planned to be an Extraordinary Monument to the Great War’s Dead
The centennial of the First World War I on my mind, I was going through some library files when I ran across a picture I’d never seen. A photocopied image …
Knoxville, Kentucky: Tennessee Williams, Clarence Brown, and Pimiento Cheese
The great playwright Tennessee Williams, with better luck, might have celebrated his 106th birthday this week. He was not a Knoxvillian, although when he first became famous, the Knoxville papers …