(Today’s article is by recurring guest writer Luke Frazier) Painted murals are a public pleasure, and downtown Knoxville has some great ones. Of course Strong Alley leads the way, and the variety found there entices repeat...
This past weekend, Evelyn Gill organized a celebration of the life and work of Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy, who was born in 1933, died on June 13. He’s claimed by more than one place, but Knoxville’s claim...
Many of us love both books and Knoxville. When the two merge in the form of Knoxville writers or writing about Knoxville, it’s a pretty heady intersection for someone like myself. Knoxville has lots of literary...
I wasn’t able to make the ribbon cutting on Wednesday, but curious about Suttree Landing Park, I took the ten minute bike ride from the heart of downtown and across the river. Signage hasn’t been placed,...
You may never have considered the building as a whole, though you may have eaten at Frussie’s recently or the Laurel Mountain Eatery before it. The building at the corner of Cumberland and Gay is also...
Recently a friend asked about the inscriptions written in granite on Market Square. She’d looked at them and found them wanting. Focusing on the three primary, and larger, quotes on the square she noted that they...
Did you notice the inscription on the fireplace behind Charlotte in one of the photographs from yesterday’s blog? It’s on one of many fireplaces scattered around the Southern Railway Train Station and, since I didn’t have...