Knoxify

Happy Birth­day to us! Happy Birth­day to us! Happy two year birth­day dear Knoxify!

It’s hard to believe that we’ve been churn­ing away at this site for nearly two years now. Time flies when you’re hav­ing fun inter­act­ing with the many peo­ple that call Knoxville home. We want to take this pixel space to dis­play a few stats, look back on our top sto­ries from 2009, and also give you a glimpse at what’s on the hori­zon for the site.

Stats
Unique vis­i­tors: 36,586
Pageviews: 130,326
Total # of pho­tos in flickr pool: 2,210

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Over the course of 2009 our read­ers left over 1,100 com­ments. Here’s a list of the Top 5 most com­mented sto­ries from the past year.

1. Best Pizza in Knoxville? (35)
2. Best Burger in Knoxville? (34)
3. Lost Your Job? Apply Inside (33)
4. Roman’s: REAL Pizza in Knoxville (27)
5. Power Strug­gle for Knoxville Social Media King? (26)

From the looks of it, Knoxville likes to talk about food, jobs and social media. Regard­less of the topic we appre­ci­ate each and every com­ment left on our site and want to thank every­one who added to the con­ver­sa­tion this year.

Pho­tog­ra­phy by pre­masagar

This photo was taken by shane­an­druth

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 heath.chambless

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

We have added a quiet North Knoxville neigh­bor­hood to our ‘hood guide port­fo­lio. Har­rill Hills, located in the heart of Foun­tain City, is a his­toric neigh­bor­hood that was estab­lished as the result of a part­ner­ship between a builder and Foun­tain City’s biggest gro­cer in the 1920s, A. Hale Franklin. To learn more about this neigh­bor­hood check out the com­plete guide here.

© 2009 Robert Stock­dale Pho­tog­ra­phy, All Rights Reserved.

On the spur of the moment, I decided to attend the Vet­er­ans Day pro­gram at the Ten­nessee Vet­er­ans Ceme­tery this year. Although I drive by the solemn rows of tomb­stones every day, I’d never ven­tured up the hill to the octag­o­nal struc­ture at the top. This year, in the wake of the Fort Hood mas­sacre, I felt moved to do so. I wanted to honor our vet­er­ans in a per­sonal way. My dad, a Korean War vet­eran, went with me to the ser­vice hosted by the Ten­nessee Chap­ter of the State Guard Asso­ci­a­tion of the United States. Nei­ther of us knew what to expect.

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