Michael Knight speaks to the Knoxville Writer’s Guild. At the November meeting of the Knoxville Writer’s Guild, local favorite and nationally known author Michael Knight read from his book The Typist and talked about its genesis....

I generally try to pass on some of what I notice on First Friday and this month I bypassed that and went directly into the heavy series of posts about panhandling, so I’ve decided to loop...

March for Sanity, Market Square, Knoxville, Tennessee I’d be remiss if I didn’t throw in a plug for Sanity. On a recent, beautiful, autumn afternoon a small contingent of Knoxvillians made their plea for sanity in...

Construction Site, Downtown Montgomery, Alabama During my recent trip to Montgomery I came across a construction site that added a dimension to preservation and development that I could never have imagined. Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA)...

John Craig opens the Knox Heritage Annual Meeting, November 2010. The annual awards ceremony was held at the Bijou in which Knox Heritage recognizes those who have distinguished themselves in the local world of preservation. The...

 Tennessee National Guard leads the way.  Veterans Day Parade, Gay Street, Knoxville, November 2010  A fluke in my work schedule allowed me to be downtown for the recent Veterans Day Parade. It was quite...

Knoxville Skyline, Nina and Pinta in the foreground, November 2010 You have to act fast if you’d like to take advantage of this interesting diversion, but until November 17, replicas of two of Columbus’ ships –...

I’m going to sign off on the current conversation regarding homelessness with this post. It’s been more helpful to me than I expected. Just the act of examining the limited alternatives and the responses I got from the...

I’m still waiting for responses from the Episcopal, Presbyterian and Catholic Churches. Angie Sledge from KARM also insists that she will weigh in on the issue. I’m going short on this note today because I probably...