Parkridge Home Tour 2014, Part Two
Here’s the second round of photographs from the excellent tour of Parkridge homes. I’ve had as much fun editing them as I had taking the tour, although it was a bit painful trimming the 115 photos...
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An Afternoon of Beautiful Homes in Parkridge, Part 1 of 2
The weekend was as beautiful as could be hoped for in late October in Knoxville. In other words, it was picture perfect. The dilemma was in choosing which events to pursue. Of course there was a...
What Does It Take to Get Knoxville Riled? Metro Pulse?
This weekend marked the rally to support Metro Pulse and/or protest the actions of Scripps to cease its publication and layoff all its employees. Since the announcement last Wednesday passions have run high across the city...
Urban Churchill Ghosts
The title is a mash-up because the day was a mash-up. It’s the kind of juxtaposition that enriches an urban environment and sometimes leads me to connections I wouldn’t otherwise make. Days like this past Tuesday...
Old Gray Cemetery 14th Annual Lantern and Carriage Tour
Some weekends in this city just carry too much action. I wrote about the Hola Festival yesterday. Just a bit outside of downtown Greek Fest has been working their Mediterranean magic for years and the two...
Hola Festival 2014: A Feast for the Senses
I’ve made no secret in the past of my love of the Hola Festival. As is the case for several other festivals, it brings a mix of people to downtown who aren’t usually as prevalent. It’s...
Inside the Mechanics’ Bank and Trust Building
I’d never been inside the Mechanics’ Bank and Trust Building before last Saturday and I’d wondered about it. Sitting at 602 S. Gay Street, it’s easily one of the most striking buildings on a street that...
East Tennessee History Fair, 2014
It’s always a fun event and includes so many events that it’s impossible to do them all. I worked pretty hard most of the day and didn’t make it to several major events that I really...
East TN History Center: There’s a lot Going On
Urban Girl and I have been hanging around together a lot the last couple of weeks and it’s caused me to take some fresh looks at some things I’ve allowed to blend into the background. One...
Southern Literature Converges in the City
Last year I wrote a piece about my friend Flossie McNabb at Union Avenue Books. I told, among other stories, the story of how she and I met sometime back in the 1990s at Davis Kidd...