A homegrown guide to Knoxville events, stories, food, neighborhoods, and the history under your feet.
Festivals, music, markets, family events, and community happenings.
From Cherokee homelands and 1791 to TVA, civil rights, and the 1982 World’s Fair.
Independent restaurants, old favorites, and places worth crossing town for.
Downtown, trails, museums, music, sports, and easy East Tennessee escapes.
Our history section is built as an original, long-form local archive — not a pile of copied blurbs.
By the middle of the twentieth century, segregation shaped much of daily life in Knoxville. Black residents faced unequal access to restaurants, theaters, schools, jobs, public facilities, and city services. The civil ri…
Read articleIn the late 1970s, the idea of Knoxville hosting a World's Fair sounded improbable enough to invite ridicule. The proposed site was a worn industrial and rail corridor between downtown and the University of Tennessee. Kn…
Read articleKnoxville's downtown revival was not a single project or sudden turnaround. It was a layered process involving historic preservation, private investment, public infrastructure, arts organizations, housing, restaurants, f…
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