Knoxify

As good a place to start as any, Kingston Pike is prob­a­bly the best known of Knoxville’s five spoke roads and, in many ways rep­re­sents a micro-view of Knoxville his­tory, from the mid-1800s thru the mid-1900s. The Pike is one of Knoxville’s ear­li­est roads dat­ing back as far as 1788, apparently.

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A scene from the Ten­nessee Stage Company’s pro­duc­tion of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” in which a band of tin­kers dis­cuss a play that they intend to present at the wed­ding of Theaseus and Hippolyta.

Before this sum­mer, I had never attended a pro­duc­tion of the Ten­nessee Stage Com­pany (TSC). This past sum­mer, I attended their pre­sen­ta­tions of Ham­let and A Midsummer’s Night Dream. I am glad I attended. And, if you do, you will be too — next summer.

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I have lived here, in Knoxville, pretty much my whole life. Yet, I still don’t quite know what all goes into mak­ing Knoxville the city that it is. But, like every­one else, I have my opin­ions on the subject.

First, and fore­most, its peo­ple make Knoxville Knoxville. We, the peo­ple, are an increas­ingly diverse group of peo­ple. Now, we hail from all parts of the world. But, that wasn’t always so. Orig­i­nally, we were pretty insu­lar, with our ances­tors com­ing from Europe by way of the Carolinas.

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