Downtown Knoxville Christmas Eve Services 2024
Welcome to this year’s edition of downtown Christmas...
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Downtown Knoxville Christmas Lights and Decorations 2024, Part Two
As promised, here’s the second part of the annual tour of downtown Christmas lights. I hope you enjoy the effort to make the sparkle for everyone to enjoy. Kudos to the City of Knoxville for making...
Downtown Knoxville Christmas Lights and Decorations 2024, Part One
I recently enjoyed my annual trek around downtown peering into windows and entering a few buildings in search of the pretty holiday decorations so many people enjoy. We’re not New York City when it comes to...
Fascinating Friends Around Us: An Interview with Marcel Holman
On a recent Friday late-night at Bistro at the Bijou a friend and I enjoyed a great jazz combo while sipping beverages. For me, Ben Maney on keyboards provided the main attraction, but my attention was...
P Smith Releases “Chronicles and Narratives: Tales from Strawberry Plains & Gay Street”
It was nearly three years ago when Patti Smith (“P” to everyone who ever met her) said one last farewell to the condo on the 100 block of Gay Street where she’d lived for twenty seven-years....
Knoxville Honors Veterans in the 2024 Veterans Day Parade
The 2024 Veterans Day Parade made its way down Gay Street, yesterday. Stepping off at 10:40 in order to arrive at the grand stand by 11:00 am. The 11:00 am marker remains important as the day...
Kincannon Administration Puts Forth Parking Proposal
The latest round of parking conversation ensued yesterday, as Mayor Kincannon presented her proposal for changes to be made to downtown parking. The proposal is the outgrowth of the study commissioned by the city which I...
Public Space is Public Space: We Decide What Happens There
It’s easy to think of public spaces as immutable; set in their current uses forever. It simply isn’t so. Market Square is pedestrian space, right? But it used to serve automobile and wagon traffic around the...
Housing Affordability and Historic Preservation, Related?
It is generally accepted that America (and Knoxville) has a housing shortage and, particularly, a shortage of affordable housing. At the recent Preservation Conference hosted by Knox Heritage, keynote speaker Katlyn Cotton, Associate Principal at PlaceEconomics,...
A Walking Tour of Henley Street with Bike Walk Knoxville
Bike Walk Knoxville, founded in 2012 by Caroline Cooney, focuses on improving biking and walking in the Knoxville area, “. . . to make sure all ages and abilities in the community have safe and accessible...