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This photo was taken by Che­neworth Gap ~ Ken Redmond

The View of Knoxville series is derived from pho­tos in our flickr group. Add your pic­tures and we might fea­ture them here.

This photo was taken by mosaic_photo

The View of Knoxville series is derived from pho­tos in our flickr group. Add your pic­tures and we might fea­ture them here.

This photo was taken by mosaic_photo

The View of Knoxville series is derived from pho­tos in our flickr group. Add your pic­tures and we might fea­ture them here.

For peo­ple who don’t bleed orange, the fierce, irra­tional loy­alty of Ten­nessee foot­ball fans is per­plex­ing. You might think we’re unbal­anced and over-the-top in our alle­giance to the Vols. You might think we’re blithely unaware of big­ger issues and that we ought to get our pri­or­i­ties in order. What we need is a real­ity check, right?

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“Call it fate, call it luck, call it karma. I believe every­thing hap­pens for a rea­son.” –Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbuster

Let me pref­ace this lit­tle arti­cle, with a short story. Last week right here on the illus­tri­ous Knox­ify com­ments sec­tion, I wrote a quick blurb about a new mar­ket in Maryville and their beer selec­tion. Moments later a mes­sage popped into my inbox from Knoxify’s own CP. He has been try­ing to help me to find a gen­eral direc­tion, for top­ics to write about. Here’s a an excerpt from his email, “Hey buddy, I saw your com­ment and thought, I need to see if Chad wants to write about beer in Down­town, Maryville… what about a series on bars, stores, etc. and their beer selec­tions?”. Now I refer you to the famous quote at the begin­ning of this arti­cle. Why yes, yes I would like to have an excuse to drink beer at a vari­ety of estab­lish­ment, and talk about what all hap­pened the next day. Usu­ally I would call that Mon­day morn­ing, but now I can say, it’s for an arti­cle! Now I under­stand we don’t exactly have dead­lines as far as arti­cles go around here, but don’t think for one sec­ond I won’t even­tu­ally say to my wife, “but dar­ling, I just have to go to that bar with my friends tonight. I have a dead­line, and the loyal Knox­ify read­ers are depend­ing on me!” So with that I say, yes, yes CP, I would like to write about beer selec­tion in Maryville. Now on with the show…

On Sat­ur­day night, 12/12/09, the wife and I ven­tured into down­town Maryville, TN. One of the great things about Knoxville is that not only is Knoxville itself such a great place, but its smack dab in the mid­dle of other great places to be. It’s the epi­cen­ter so to speak. You can reach down­town Maryville in 20 – 30 min­utes from down­town Knoxville. It’s a small lit­tle city but with plenty of char­ac­ter, and it’s slowly start­ing to take a note from our own down­town and revi­tal­iz­ing with new stores, restau­rants, and apart­ments pop­ping up at a reg­u­lar pace. It’s also home, to the huge “Foothills Fall Fes­ti­val” every Octo­ber, that brings vis­i­tors from all over the coun­try, with big names in coun­try music and clas­sic rock fill­ing out the con­cert lineup each year.

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