Ghost Walking Market Square
(Ed. Note: Today’s article is by guest writer Paul James of the Knoxville History Project. Expect more Knoxville history from Paul in the coming months.) There are ghost walks and then there is ghost walking. It...
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Snow in Downtown Knoxville, January 2025
For the second year in a row we’ve gotten a significant snow in January. I’ll take it. In the early 1980s when I moved to Knoxville, multiple snows a year seemed normal. In recent years we’ve...
Top Ten Downtown Knoxville Articles for 2024
With over three hundred articles coming and going on the website each year, it is easy to miss a few each year. These ten might have been hard to miss as they were the most read...
Downtown Knoxville Year in Review: 2024
Let’s take a minute before we look ahead into next year and consider the year that was. January gave us a powerful winter storm and several major stories. Downtown business and development news hardly slowed over...
Downtown Knoxville Christmas Eve Services 2024
Welcome to this year’s edition of downtown Christmas...
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...