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 …
Thank You for Your Service: A Salute to Knoxville’s Veterans
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 …
Quiddities: Kingston Pike
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, …
Patchwork Quilt that is Knoxville
Photo by: ZenOptic This is a guest post by Chad Huskey. I’ve lived in Knoxville all my life. I grew up in South Knoxville close to Seymour. So as a kid that’s all I knew of our little town. I went to a small elementary school, and an even smaller …
Quiddities: The Tennessee Stage Company
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). …
You’ve Never Heard it Called That!?
This is a guest post by Chad Huskey. As a kid, riding up and down Chapman Highway with my folks, we would stop in for gas at a gas station/pawn shop/jewelry store/restaurant. The sign at the road says “Thrifty Center”, but I had always heard it called Taul Town. When …
Gettin’ Snuggie Wid It: Knoxville’s First-Ever Snug Pub Crawl
Saturday night, October 17 is a date that will go down in history – albeit, quirky cultural history, but history nonetheless. This chilly evening marked Knoxville’s inaugural Snug Pub Crawl, hailed by one local tweeter as the “tweet-up of the century.” Twenty-some-odd Snuggie-clad seekers gathered at the appointed time on …
Livin’ La Dolce Vita – A Visit to the Fellini Kroger
Frederico Fellini was an idiosyncratic Italian film director renowned for blending fantasy and baroque images into his work. A cinematic pioneer, Fellini created what critic Robert Richardson referred to as an “aesthetic of disparity” in his films, abandoning traditional plot and character development in favor of a “disparate succession of …
Quiddities: What Makes Knoxville Knoxville?
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, …
New Neighborhood: Fox Den
Our latest addition to the Knoxville Neighborhood Guide took us Far West, otherwise known as the Town of Farragut. Fox Den is an upscale golf and country club community that was originally developed in the late 1960s and 1970s and was considered by some back in the day to be …